At 11:28 -0700 2004-05-04, Peter Kirk wrote:
From my point of view, Michael could have made a better case for a unified Phoenician and Samaritan proposal. But I think he intends a separate Samaritan proposal. And that I would not oppose, because there is an easily demonstrable user community of modern Samaritans. Although I would still want assurances that they don't consider Samaritan script to be glyph variants of Hebrew script.
One of them supplied a font to us which has Hebrew glyphs with their Unicode character positions and Samaritan glyphs with currently-unassigned Unicode character positions and unique Samaritan names (SHAN not SHIN). Not kosher, of course, and heaven knows what kinds of display behaviour they managed to get, but they were certainly making a particular effort.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
