Long live the alphabet. But, Mullaney argues ... taking advantage of software to translate letters into characters. And in a real breakthrough, these systems were now predictive.

The latter seemed more promising. Mapping characters onto the alphabet immediately led to other questions, however: How many alphabet letters would it take to uniquely encode a single character?

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Many of the other letters in this alphabet have the same "eyebrow" on ... but augments it with two other writing systems. Chinese characters were designed to be written with straight or gently ...

Franklin’s alphabet includes six letters of his own devise ... which didn’t depend on creating new characters. The two men supported one another’s pursuits but found little interest from ...

What the researcher found is that Apple does a good job with most Unicode characters, except one --which is the letter dum (ꝱ) (U+A771), part of the extended Latin alphabet character set.

Then there is the letter i with and without a dot — the latter being analogous to a character in the Turkish alphabet. The immediate obvious appeal of these modifications will be that writing these ...

The letters were designed in very distinctive shapes, with an independent character, very dissimilar to the lettering of other written languages of the time Mashtots created his new alphabet in a ...