Re: New contribution

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 14:03:30 EDT

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    At 19:10 -0700 2004-04-29, John Hudson wrote:

    >Michael, Peter is not talking about the Phoenician language being
    >represented in the Hebrew script, he is talking about the common
    >practice of semiticists to *encode* the Phoenician script using
    >Hebrew codepoints. The representation of the text is in Phoenician
    >glyphs, not Hebrew, but these glyphs are treated as typeface
    >variants of Hebrew.

    I have plenty of fonts where the Phoenician glyphs are treated as
    typeface variants of Latin.

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


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