In view of this, I call for a review of the roadmaps and in particular of the status of the Aramaic, Palmyrene, Nabataean, Elymaic and Hatran scripts.
We heard you the last time, Peter. We know that this is a concern of yours.
Serious consideration should be given to unifying these scripts with the Hebrew script, of which they appear to be glyph variants.
To you.
The separate status of Phoenician may also need to be reconsidered.
Absolutely not. Phoenician is the mother of these scripts and Greek and Old Italic besides. Greek and Old Italic did *not* descend from "Hebrew", and it is pernicious to go on suggesting that Phoenician should be unified with Hebrew. If you want, as some scholars do, to write Phoenician in Hebrew script, go right ahead. That is a perfectly reasonable transliteration choice. Nothing prevents you from doing it. But historical realities and relationships *do* have some relation to the content of the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646. And that may include encoding things that you won't use, though *others* might.
Note that I am calling for a review only of scripts listed in N2311 as not in current use.
Please do not force us to undertake this review NOW. We do not have the resources to do so effectively and already this thread has taken up far too much time and energy. We have explained to you that nothing actionable is happening with any of this material at present. How many times do I have to say that?
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
