From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 07:43:52 CDT
At 11:42 -0700 2004-05-03, John Hudson wrote:
>Michael Everson wrote:
>
> >> Hebrew has the same 22 characters, with the same character properties.
>
>>And a baroque set of additional marks and signs, none of which
>>apply to any of the Phoenician letterforms, EVER, in the history of
>>typography, reading, and literature.
>
>And a baroque set of additional marks and signs, none of which apply
>any of the STAM letterforms...
Stam are clearly letterforms belonging to the Square Hebrew
tradition. Phoenician letterforms do not.
Historical relationships have, do, and will continue to inform some
of the choices we make in determining what to encode in the Universal
Character Set.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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