Re: Colourful scripts and Aramaic

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Everson
At 13:12 -0700 2003-08-07, Peter Kirk wrote: Well, it seems to me that in the case of the Aramaic proposal we don't even have that. We have an archaic version of the script which is now used mainly for Hebrew, and which many scholars still call Aramaic (in distinction from paleo-Hebrew)

RE: Colourful scripts and Aramaic

2003-08-14 Thread Jony Rosenne
Also cursive Hebrew and Rashi. See attached samples. Jony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Everson Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 12:24 AM To: Karljrgen Feuerherm Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Colourful scripts

Re: Colourful scripts and Aramaic

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Kirk
On 07/08/2003 13:00, John Cowan wrote: Peter Kirk scripsit: Is it a principle of Unicode that a new script should not be encoded because it is one to one correspondence with an existing one, even though there is no graphical relationship? Well, that is certainly in conflict with Michael's

Re: Colourful scripts and Aramaic

2003-08-12 Thread Michael Everson
At 18:03 -0400 2003-08-07, Karljürgen Feuerherm wrote: My knowledge of Aramaic script is a little scanty, but my understanding is more or less the same as Peter's. Which leads me to suggest that encoding Aramaic separately would be a bit like encoding Old Akkadian (Cuneiform) separately from

Re: Colourful scripts and Aramaic

2003-08-10 Thread ekeown
Madison WI Hello: http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2311.pdf before deciding what it is that is meant by Aramaic in the Roadmap? Note that Hebrew descends FROM it, and that as do number of other scripts which clearly do NOT descend from Hebrew. First, I think the

Re: Colourful scripts and Aramaic

2003-08-09 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:12 PM Subject: Re: Colourful scripts and Aramaic On 07/08/2003 13:00, John Cowan wrote: Peter Kirk scripsit: Is it a principle of Unicode that a new script should not be encoded

Re: Colourful scripts and Aramaic

2003-08-08 Thread Peter Kirk
On 07/08/2003 15:24, Michael Everson wrote: At 18:03 -0400 2003-08-07, Karljürgen Feuerherm wrote: My knowledge of Aramaic script is a little scanty, but my understanding is more or less the same as Peter's. Which leads me to suggest that encoding Aramaic separately would be a bit like