From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 22:34:00 EDT
At 15:46 -0700 2004-04-29, Peter Kirk wrote:
>Such problems were found with biblical Hebrew because (I am told)
>accents were encoded on the basis of data from a reference book
>rather than from contact with users. Unicode needs to make sure that
>such mistakes are not repeated.
Hebrew is not the mother of the Greek alphabet. Phoenician is. The
problems you have with Square Hebrew (= Unicode Hebrew) have nothing
to do with Palaeo-Hebrew/Phoenician/Punic, which have been proposed
for separate encoding. And overloading the already complex Square
Hebrew (= Unicode Hebrew) script with Phoenician letterforms isn't a
solution either.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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