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Dbachmann added the text: "Michael Everson in 2001 criticized specifically the ordering of the characters in this standard. The ISO Runes Project treated the runes as essentially glyph variants of the Latin script. Everson argued that the native futhark ordering is well established, and that it is unusual for UCS to order letters not in Latin alphabetical order rather than according to native tradition"; and noted in an inline comment to the reference that "]