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On 13/1/97 Patrick Durusau of Information Technology wrote:

>Magaret,
>
>I am very interested in your work with original Ethiopic texts as
>described in your post to the TC-List. I am the chair of the newly
>formed SBL Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts,
>which will be addressing the problems faced by authors and publishers
>working with biblical language materials.
>
>One of the first goals of the seminar is to produce Writing System
>Declarations, which are formal ways of defining how non-Western
>characters will be represented in a text.  If the standard keyboard
>lacked the key for "$", the Writing System Declaration could specify
>that sign would be written as "$" and when the text was processed
>for printing or display, appropriate software would display the symbol
>"$".  The steering committee will be meeting later this month to decide
>which biblical languages should be described first and I was wondering
>if you would be interested in specifying the character set we would need
>for Ethiopic texts?  It is not necessary for you to cast it into the
>technical form needed for creation of the Writing System Declaration,
>but such work does require a scholar familiar with the language and
>script to be described.



Dear Patrick,

If you need help with the two Old Slavic (or Old Church Slavonic) writing
systems, the Glagolitic and the Cyrillic alphabets, please let me know. We
have built up quite some experience in encoding and collating Slavic, Greek
and even Armenian NT MSS.

Michael Bakker
Slavic Seminar
University of Amsterdam

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