Re: Searching for Multiscript Words

--- ዳንኤል ያዕቆብ <tamrin@...>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I was just considering word boundaries and thought
> that a change of script should indicate the start of
> a new word (assume a space somehow vanished). But
> are there any exceptions to the rule? Can people
> here think of any words that must be spelled with

(or

> likely to spelled with) letters of more than one
> system of writing?
> Do any nations allow for the legal registration of a
> company name in mixed scripts?

I've definitely come across English words with both
Korean and Hebrew endings in mixed script. I don't
know how widespread it is and doubt any official
status.
Of course Japanese has three scripts and these do mix
but that's a special case.

Andrew Dunbar.

> thanks,
>
> /Daniel
>
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