If all writing is information storage, then all writing is of equal value.(albertine gaur "a history of writing")

found by saki mafundikwa afrikan alphabets

wanna see: language culture type

an overview of various formats and, oh well, dead links. but there is more than i thought going on within the open source arena.

ken fowles on character sets and unicode:

to handle more than 256 characters ... is a requirement, not an option ....(ms typography)

somehow it reminds me about the antville discussion how to do it properly and not just as a quick hack that leads to glueing.

not a lot to see yet at decodeunicode

don't know if unicode actually is the answer. recalling a conversation one year back and locos and

juli gudehus genesis picto. 60s versus 90s.

in the 70s yukio ota was involved in a project named "visualizing global interdependencies". other wonder if there is anything like an aesthetic skin

maurice maeterlinck, about bees and ants, efficiancy and order.

it seems there is a world out there that neither needs leadership nor hierarchy: patterns in nature.