From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 27 2003 - 10:33:55 EST
Christopher John Fynn wrote at 12:53 PM on Saturday, December 27, 2003:
>Dean Snyder wrote:
>
>> So Unicode is now prepared to provide support,
>> in plain text, for the needs of paleographers?
>
>What would you call these
>http://anubis.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n2612/n2612-3.pdf ?
Characters useful for epigraphers, not paleographers.
The Greek acrophonic characters accepted into Unicode are exactly that,
characters - useful in epigraphy but worthless for paleography, because
they do not encode multiple glyphic variants of the same character.
Compare, for example, "Epidaurean Acrophonic Symbol Two" which is 2 dots
versus "Thespian Acrophonic Symbol Two" which is a crooked line. What
would serve the needs of paleographers would be the encoding of all the
glyphic variants of the "Thespian Acrophonic Symbol Two". Unicode will
not encode that, nor should it.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Scholarly Technology Specialist
Library Digital Programs, Sheridan Libraries
Garrett Room, MSE Library, 3400 N. Charles St.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218
office: 410 516-6850 fax: 410-516-6229
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project: www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
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