At 07:12 -0400 2004-07-12, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>[...] the history of writing, my only concern. As you
>already tut-tutted, I don't give a good g-d damn about "coding."

The reason people DO care about "coding" is that the encodings enable
people to enter, process, store, and share data written IN the
world's writing systems. That would be no less than the recorded
history of our species. The encoding effort is not to be disdained.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com