Re: Ancient Northwest Semitic Script

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Sat Dec 27 2003 - 18:26:06 EST

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    On 27/12/2003 03:10, jameskass@att.net wrote:

    > ...
    >
    >Practitioners of many sciences need Unicode in order to store and exchange
    >information. Mathematicians have successfully encoded what are essentially
    >Latin glyph variants separately for usage as math variables in Plane One,
    >including Fraktur and cursive styles.
    >
    >Epigraphers may elect to classify and codify specific variants for specific
    >needs. ...
    >
    >
    >
    Perhaps we should have a special block of "Epigraphical Alphanumeric
    Symbols", to go with the "Mathematical...", for which epigraphers can
    propose all manner of glyph variants which they might find useful, while
    the rest of us ignore these blocks get on with encoding our texts using
    the existing Hebrew, Latin etc blocks with markup for glyph variants.

    -- 
    Peter Kirk
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    peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
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