Easily amused...
Reading the
Unicode standard for text encoding is surprisingly fascinating. The proposal for the encoding rules for
Egyptian Hieroglyphics bring up all the points they'll need to consider when encoding Mayan Hieroglyphics and various kinds of runes; the proposals for
Tengwar and
Cirth are just as serious.
OK, I realize this is a strange thing to be doing on a Friday night. But it's strangely alluring...
