From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 20:10:41 EST
On 12/28/03 18:34, Peter Kirk wrote:
> It is very interesting to me that there does seem to have been a glyph
> distinction (though a very subtle one) between sin and shin, in the
> "serech" example
> (http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/programs/Altman/serech.jpg) of
> what is undoubtedly (in Unicode terms) Hebrew script. If this
> distinction can be verified a case can be made for encoding a separate
> HEBREW LETTER SIN, equivalent to shin with sin dot. But it is
> difficult to verify this when three scribes within the same document
> make the distinction in three different ways.
You're going to have to help me with this one. What is the difference
you see between shin and sin in this document? The quality of the
picture is so poor it's hard to read, but at least one undeniable sin
doesn't look different (to me) from the shins there. What are you seeing?
~mark
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