From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 11:43:10 EDT
On 29/04/2004 07:32, Andrew C. West wrote:
>
>I was stating a general principle here. I don't know what particular encoding
>issues may be associated with Phoenician, but few scripts left to be encoded are
>so simple as to be devoid of any encoding issues. And in general scholars who
>are experts in a particular script may not fully understand -- or be willing to
>recognise -- the encoding issues involved. In particular, they may be unwilling
>to accept Unicode's character-glyph model.
>
>Andrew
>
>
>
As far as I know Phoenician is actually a rather simple script. The only
complication is that it is RTL. I don't know of any attempts to write
vowels or add other diacritics, and there is no contextual shaping that
I am aware of.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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