At 19:28 -0700 2004-04-29, John Hudson wrote:
With what characters -- Hebrew or Phoenician -- would you expect Birnbaum's Palaeo-Hebrew to be encoded?
Phoenician, **just as it says in the proposal**.
It seems to me that on visual grounds one would use Phoenician, but on textual grounds one would use Hebrew. This is quite problematic, and I can see why Peter is unhappy about having two equally valid ways of encoding the same text *represented by the same glyphs*.
It is no more problematic than having the Pali text of the Dhammapada written in Devanagari, Latin, Myanmar, Thai, Khmer, or Sinhala scripts.
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