From: Marco Cimarosti
Message: 5135
Date: 2005-07-19
> Does anyone here know where I can find some machine-readable texts inTry this, especially the yet incomplete "600 Phrases in the Liangshan Yi
> the Yi syllabary? If there's a choice of forms, HTML would be
> preferable to PDF.
> I'm interested in the frequency and co-occurrence of syllables and howI don't think Chinese "ideographs" are ever interspersed within Yi text.
> much alien text there is, e.g. Chinese ideographs or Western
> punctuation. I'm afraid the reason isn't particularly linguistic - I
> am wondering how well simple Unicode compression algorithms could be
> made to work on it.