On 19/12/2003 13:39, Philippe Verdy wrote:

Jony Rosenne wrote:


Michael Everson


Samaritan and Phoenician are not font variants of Hebrew/Square Hebrew/Jewish or whatever else you want to call it.


But Square Hebrew IS a font variant of Ancient Hebrew or Phoenician or
Canaanite, whatever you want to call it, and so is Samaritan.



Do not mix script families (or genetic history) with their actual use.
Each time a script has evolved in a parallel way for other languages,
it has introduced its own distinctive features.
...


Do not mix lists. I have replied to this on the Hebrew list.

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