At 15:46 -0700 2004-04-29, Peter Kirk wrote:
Such problems were found with biblical Hebrew because (I am told) accents were encoded on the basis of data from a reference book rather than from contact with users. Unicode needs to make sure that such mistakes are not repeated.
Hebrew is not the mother of the Greek alphabet. Phoenician is. The problems you have with Square Hebrew (= Unicode Hebrew) have nothing to do with Palaeo-Hebrew/Phoenician/Punic, which have been proposed for separate encoding. And overloading the already complex Square Hebrew (= Unicode Hebrew) script with Phoenician letterforms isn't a solution either.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
