Gary Urton's book, "Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records" [0] is a great introduction to this topic. After reading this I

Gary Urton's book, "Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records" [0] is a great introduction to this topic. After reading this I was reminded how not all writing systems can easily be encoded in utf-8, à la Awesome Falsehoods. [1] [0] https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/urtsig https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/urtsig [1] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood