Re: VMs: Nabataean /sefira?

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 22:09, steve ekwall wrote:
> IF every gallows character was a "paired character" and the lower case
> 'pointers' were just _'single' coded characters_ how would that
> affect/effect its overall enthropy for European languages?
>
> I don't have the means to run this Ratio/Percentages question...

I think that this would lower the entropy even more because there are only a 
few half right gallows to choose from once you envounter the left part.
Frogguy alphabet codes the gallows like that. You can see the entropies of 
most transliterations here (near the bottom of the page):

http://web.bham.ac.uk/G.Landini/evmt/commas.htm

cheers,

Gabriel


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