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Could be. I can't remember.

Kewl. Isn't there a case where some sounds or some sound combinations are not represented by an alphabet? How would you spell something that had to include a sound that was out of normal human range? Or am I now confusing matching sounds with glyphs. All of this is confusing and one of the reasons nobody can agree on one standard.

I don't believe that. I remember a program that talked about when babies learned language. There is a language that has inaudible clicking sounds (IIRC) that only people who heard the language as babies can identify. buttuming that this research and lanugage exist and are not a figment of bad memory in my head...

How does one "spell" those hidden clicks or hums or whatevers if an alphabet is limited to a subset of these sounds. Here I am buttuming that written has some relationship to spoken and that the glyphs give a clue to pronunciation.

It cannot leave that space because nobody can predict what is going to be needed. When you can't predict your range you have to build into the design a well-doucmented method of extending the current formats in such a way that designing an extension will never break old programs nor new programs. We used to call this extensibility.

BAH