[Corpora-List] What about Maltese texts in Latin letters?

[Pierre Zweigenbaum]

Le jeudi 18 octobre 2007, 20:22:35, Claudia a écrit :
> then yes, from that perspective it is written in latin script. What I
> explained previously was more from an encoding perspective and that
> unicode handles the maltese characters.
> 
> On 18/10/2007, Nicholas Sanders <nix at semiotek.org> wrote:
> > That's my assumption too!
> >
> >
> > On 18 Oct 2007, at 16:59, maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu wrote:
> >
> > > I believe the term 'Latin script' refers to any writing system
> > > which uses
> > > more or less the letters that the Latin language was written with.

>>From what is on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language#Alphabet
and on http://www.geocities.com/click2speak/unicode/chars_mt.html,
it looks like non-ASCII Maltese characters are all found in the
Latin-1 supplement and Latin Extended-A blocks of Unicode.

		Pierre.

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