Again not about Phoenician

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 18:50:47 CST

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    On 08/11/2004 21:10, Michael Everson wrote:

    >...
    >
    > Quite honestly, the people who would unify have not been particularly
    > reasonable. ...

    ...

    > ... Only now is one of them coming around to accept the taxonomy we
    > have used in approaching the task of encoding all the world's writing
    > systems, and even then, he's suggesting that informative text in the
    > standard about that taxonomy is more important than getting the job done.

    I am suggesting that the best way to get the job done properly is to lay
    the conceptual foundation properly first, instead of trying to build a
    structure on a foundation which doesn't match...

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