(08-04-2019, 02:49 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.No, what I mean is that then most VM words would represent a number over 10. I randomly opened You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and there's just some short words like ot and ol. The rest would, given the Roman-like system, easily run in the hundreds or thousands.
That's no problem per se, but it would mean that we're looking at a string of variable large numbers.
It doesn't matter how big the numbers are, it matters how they are processed. Maybe they are broken into groups of two. It only takes a couple of dozen to represent a whole alphabet. It only takes THREE glyphs to represent the alphabet in Roman numerals. The rest might be stop-markers, modifiers, or nulls.
The VMS chars can basically be organized into four groups, four basic kinds of patterns.