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On Sat, 4 Aug 2012, Jacob Errington wrote:

> It probably wouldn't be complicated at all to create an alternate
> orthography using diacritics similar to those used in pinyin. These symbols
> were probably used by Carter for technological reasons at the time (this
> language is incredibly old at this point).

Yes, support for ISO-8859-1 was just beginning and Unicode was not 
available.  In TeX I could make overstruck accents happen, but this was 
impossible in serial media, so I just did everything with -/|\^=.


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