Re: Phoenician

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 19:29:45 CDT

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    We do actually mix scripts. Hiragana and Katakana are interleaved.

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
    To: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Fri, 2004 May 07 15:56
    Subject: Re: Phoenician

    > At 15:46 -0400 2004-05-07, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
    > >Jony Rosenne scripsit:
    > >
    > >> A possible strong negative argument would be if having it would cause
    > >> problems for those who do not think they need it. For example, if it would
    > >> make searching more difficult. This argument has been raised, but I am not
    > >> convinced the possible difficulties are significant.
    > >
    > >This could be solved by making Phoenician and Hebrew base characters
    > >equivalent
    > >at the first level of collation.
    >
    > Not in the default template; we don't mix scripts. But Semiticists
    > who wanted to mix the two could tailor the ordering, of course.
    > --
    > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
    >
    >



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