From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 14:07:43 EDT
On 29/04/2004 08:22, Michael Everson wrote:
> ...
> Look at the bibliography. Students of the Greek and Latin alphabets do
> not claim that those alphabets derived from Hebrew.
I made no such claim, and I didn't imply one.
But for whose benefit is this proposal being made? Users of the
Phoenician script? Students of the Greek and Latin alphabets? Authors of
children's books? Users of the script don't want this proposal. Are you
suggesting that the script should be encoded to support such tables as
your Figure 1 (comparison of Greek and Phoenician alphabet) and Figure
12 (from an indeed delightful children's book)? I would argue that these
examples are not plain text, but are rather graphics, in which the point
being made is not in the letter semantics but in the glyph shape. Is
that an adequate basis for encoding a new script? That is a real
question, to which an answer is needed before this proposal should be
accepted.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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