From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Wed May 26 2004 - 10:28:26 CDT
Peter Constable wrote at 1:36 PM on Tuesday, May 25, 2004:
>- In the case of PH, some / all Semitic paleographers consider these to
>be the same characters as square Hebrew characters. There are others,
>however, who do not.
I recall no one saying they are not the same characters.
>Can we agree to drop the discussion of Fraktur now?
A better way to put this, and the only reason I brought up Fraktur to
begin with, is to ask, Can we agree to drop the legibility argument for
Phoenician? Or at least use it consistent with its use for other scripts
encoded in Unicode?
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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