From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 17:03:38 CDT
Michael Everson wrote at 8:19 AM on Monday, May 3, 2004:
>Phoenician script, on the other hand, is so
>different that its use renders a ritual scroll
>unclean.
I'm just guessing that the same thing would be true for modern cursive
Hebrew?
Regardless, since when is the ritual uncleanness of fonts a trigger for
encoding? Just do a "Select All" and change the font!
>Either way, pointed and cantillated text
>displayed in a Phoenician font is a JOKE at best.
>And not a very good one.
The same could be said for accented archaic Greek - do you want to encode
archaic Greek separately?
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
218C New Engineering Building
3400 North Charles Street
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218
office: 410 516-6850
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