Re: VMs: Where do they get the "Letters" from?

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 2:33 am, Larry Roux wrote:
> For instance, how did someone arrive at the gallows being a "t" and the 9
> being a y, etc.

They were assigned based on what they look like and when put together whether 
they produce something pronounceable. This is not related to what the letters 
may be, but to facilitate the transcription.

> Just curious as some of the characters appear familiar from some French
> documents I have been translating but they relate to other letters.  For
> instance, the 8 was often used in French to replace the "oui" sound (French
> 8 = huit, so this made sense).  The "k" gallows appears but is "double l"
> and the "t" gallows is "g".  etc.

As you may probably know, many of the vms characters are found in Latin and 
Italian abbreviations (as discussed very recently, see Cappelli's dictionary 
for a festival of weird characters).

Cheers,

Gabriel

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