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A comment on Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite.

Re:Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite by dieselerator on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:04PM (#43191235)
The article was interesting.

Can someone explain:

Why is it called "linear" Elamite?

Is there unicode for linear Elamite yet?

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Re:Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite by robinhouston on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:28PM (#43191370)
It simply means that the symbols are composed of lines – as opposed to a system such as cuneiform.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system#Linearity for more detail.

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Re:Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite by dieselerator on Thursday February 27, 2025 @12:00AM (#43191503)
Thank you.
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Re:Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite by yorwba on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:38AM (#43193838)
Re: Unicode, there's a preliminary proposal: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21233-linear-elamite.pdf
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