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From: djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.std.misc
Subject: Re: Puree Mongole
Keywords: International, character
Message-ID: <508@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 90 14:13:37 GMT
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The recent discussion of the type of script used to represent Mongolian
is part of a larger issue.  Standard languages change writing systems
both by modifying a single system or by replacing it with another.
There may often be a need to create an electronic text reflecting an
obsolete writing system.  Replacement systems may not observe a
letter-for-letter mapping, which means that coding a single language
that uses multiple writing systems is not always simple.

Whether writing systems are current (or not) or sensible (or not),
we still need to be able to represent them.

--David

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