> Most characters are grouped into “words”, which start with the “start word” character and are connected by a vertical line on the right side. I don’t have a logical reason for why the same character is present at the start of every word<p>Well, you could argue that English puts the space character at the start of every word, other than the first one. Maybe the aliens want to delineate their words but think blank spaces look ugly.
/r/conlangs and /r/neography are both really fun subs for this kind of stuff (this is more the latter really) if anyone is interested.
Oddly enough, the final output rather resembles a pixelated version of traditional Mongolian script, which in turn originates from Arabic written vertically:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script#/media/File:Mong%C9%A3ol.png" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script#/media/File:M...</a>
The only part of the article I can pay attention to is the fact that it's encoded in cp1252, and I'm on a Mac, so all the apostrophes show up as �.