Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?

[Michael Everson]

At 13:54 -0700 2004-05-19, E. Keown wrote:
I include below the response of Prof. Stephen A. Kaufman, one of the 
world's most famous Aramaists, to the Everson Phoenician proposal:
I had seen his contribution already.
 > Anyone who thinks there has to be a separate
 encoding for Phoenician either does not understand
 Unicode or (and probably "and") does not understand
 > what a glyph is.
I am not in the least bit chastened or chagrined by this.
 > There are already encodings
 > suitable for all varieties of Northwest Semitic
 scripts.  One can legitimately argue, as some have,
 that there are still some problems with the Hebrew
 and Syriac encodings, but not that we need anything
 more for the other NW Semitic languages other than
 > some nice FONTS!
Which would not address the plain-text requirement to distinguish the 
scripts qua scripts.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com