Jony Rosenne scripsit:
A possible strong negative argument would be if having it would cause
problems for those who do not think they need it. For example, if it would
make searching more difficult. This argument has been raised, but I am not
convinced the possible difficulties are significant.
This could be solved by making Phoenician and Hebrew base characters equivalent
at the first level of collation.
[PA] I suppose this would be true in principle, but how long before this is implemented in the **actual tools** used by user such as MS Word or MS SQL Server ?
I think we have already discussed this here regarding the French Canadian official sorting and Khmer sorting, which are still unavailable on Windows. How much money for Microsoft in Phoenician sorting ? I'm not aware the collation tables can be tailored by users in those tools (yes, I know with a bit of tailoring ($) other tools from other manufacturers could fit the bill).
In theory, I believe either way (a separate encoding or a unification within the Hebrew block(*)) could be feasible. In practice, the unification point of views is available right now. I suppose it depends on one's outlook and preference. But is Unicode concerned with current limitations ? Okay, another way : But is Unicode concerned with current pragmatic usability ?
P. A.
