July
03
/ 2023
The Ogham stone, a unique artifact with carvings from an ancient Irish alphabet, presents an exceptional challenge for modern scholars and technology. The Ogham script, used to record names and land ownership, is read along a stemline, with characters comprising one to five markings on one side, the other side, through, or on the line. When scholars tried to transcribe it onto paper, they adapted it for easier comprehension, leading to an interesting technology problem later on. When encoding Ogham into Unicode, the international standard for displaying text on a computer, it became the only language where a space is not a traditional space. Ordinarily, a space character is empty, serving as a break between words or lines. However, in
