I find myself in agreement with Asmus on this. When reading Michael's original proposal, it seemed fairly straightforward; but it is now unclear to me why this necessarily needs to be encoded as a different script than Hebrew.
Then you have not been reading all the arguments carefully enough, Mark. Historical principles HAVE informed and DO inform what is encoded in the Unicode Standard.
Your "analogy" with Aldus is specious at best. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

