Re: Aramaic, Samaritan, Phoenician

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 09:54:03 EDT

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    At 08:42 -0400 2003-07-15, Karljürgen Feuerherm wrote:
    > Michael Everson said:
    > > My native script isn't Hebrew but I am certain that no one who was could
    > > easily read a newspaper article written in Phoenician or Samaritan letters.
    >
    >Surely that is not an argument for encoding a separate script, is it?

    It is sometimes. :-)

    >Most German people I know can't read the German
    >cursive script used say 50 years ago. But the
    >characters clearly correspond to the Latin
    >characters in use today.

    The handwriting is difficult to read. One would
    think that in German schools it would be at least
    introduced so children would know about it.

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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