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Re:Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective by cafard on Sunday November 10, 2024 @09:16PM (#42104094)
Not just "European", Western European. A whole lot of people read and write with the Cyrillic alphabet.
Re:Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective by xiaohanyu on Sunday November 10, 2024 @10:38PM (#42104420)
roger that, thanks!
Re:Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective by Tainnor on Monday November 11, 2024 @03:52AM (#42105514)
And then there's Greek.
Re:Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective by vkazanov on Monday November 11, 2024 @08:20AM (#42106914)
And Greek alphabet is sort of a base for both major groups of European alphabets, Latin and Cyrillic.

Can we just say greek-based alphabets?

Re:Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective by messe on Monday November 11, 2024 @08:55AM (#42107114)
Let's just go further back, and say Egyptian hieroglyph derived.
Re:Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective by vkazanov on Monday November 11, 2024 @02:37PM (#42109833)
Surprisingly, I wanted to correct you but the phoenician alphabet is thought to be derived from Egyptian as well.

So egyptian it is.

Re:Typesetting Engines: A Programmer's Perspective by bafe on Monday November 11, 2024 @11:29AM (#42108327)
And Armenian, which is also Indo-European and uses its own alphabet