From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 15:01:52 CDT
Peter Constable wrote at 7:53 AM on Friday, May 21, 2004:
>Dean, the suggestion has been that people want to or are encoding PH
>text using the Hebrew block of Unicode and simply displaying with a font
>that uses PH glyphs for those characters.
I missed that assertion - who made it?
>The burden of proof for this
>is on those making the suggestion. Michael has simply said he has never
>seen such a font. If you want to support the claim, you cannot simply
>question how thoroughly Michael has searched -- it's not his
>responsibility. If you know of such fonts, then please identify them.
I was responding to Michael's positive assertion that he has "yet to find
a single font with Hebrew encoding and Phoenician glyphs". The weight of
that statement is directly proportional to the quality of his search.
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
cell: 717 817-4897
www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
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