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My immediate thought is this could help out Mayan orthography, which is notably “computer proof”, even though it’s a mixed logography. (Mayan would need a 3rd m
by thechao 8y ago
My immediate thought is this could help out Mayan orthography, which is notably “computer proof”, even though it’s a mixed logography. (Mayan would need a 3rd marker for depth order, and marker(s?) for occlusion info.)
- yorwba 8y agoBased on this presentation I found [1] it appears that even just encoding the character composition would be more difficult than for Chinese, and the level of artistic freedom demonstrated in the examples on slide 9 makes me doubtful that it could be replicated by just a few simple rules. On the other hand, people are working on it, so Mayan will probably at some point end up included in Unicode. [1] http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/assets/unlocking-the-mayan-rev6-latest-sept2016.pdf http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/assets/unlocking-the...
- thechao 8y agoI'd distinguish between glyph and ligature variants, i.e., leopard- vs man- headed characters, U-selection etc., and simply representing the entire word, itself.