From: Alexander Kh. (alexkh@writeme.com)
Date: Sat May 14 2005 - 09:13:11 CDT
Greetings!
Dear Michael Everson,
I am glad to receive such a quick response from you.
Actually I did not expect it, so please excuse my delay with
graphical material. It will probably take me whole weekend to
prepare a rough draft with complete list of glyphs and their
names. My greatest concern is the accuracy of the data, so
I don't want to post something that is half ready - my request
is very specific, and it is in no way to be understood as an
attempt to question someone's authority.
One thing that bothers me is the scornful attitude expressed in the
sentence "Discussion with the convener of ISO/SC4/WG2 indicated
that in bibliographical contexts, probably most current use
transliterates Glagolitic to Cyrillic in any case, and it is
suggested that the variant characters in ISO 6861:1996 be unified
with the basic letters." p 4 N2610R
By saying that you are totally destroying all the imagery of this
particular script, which is not just phonetic alphabet like such of Latin
is. Every letter in Glagolitsa has its name and image, depengind on its
position, and a message written in this script can have a hidden message.
No one will argue that old Hebrew script has this ability to store
hidden messages. Why other sacred scripts are not treated with respect?
In Glagolitsa meaning of the whole text can depend on which "variant" of
the letter is used. I know this is not a widely known fact, but if you
are talking about "old script", how can we, contemporary people decide
what is right and what is wrong there? You don't go to library and burn
the books that are too old, right? Hopefully... But THIS is the same thing.
Please don't get this personally. Even if somebody uses Glagolitsa as a
fancy-looking Cyrillic font, I don't blame them. How about those using it
to study history, like me? There is much more about that script than a
phonetic transliteration. I hope I am not too late: I tried
to subscribe to this list some half a year ago, but it did not work.
Best regards,
Alexander
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