Michael Everson wrote at 11:24 PM on Thursday, May 20, 2004:
At 14:59 -0700 2004-05-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
You may mean that the Unicode book does not document how Phoenician (or Paleo-Hebrew) may be encoded. This is not to say that no one is using Unicode to encode Paleo-Hebrew texts.
The several Phoenician fonts which I have are *all* Latin clones.
So are most of the Hebrew fonts that people have. And I'll bet they use the same code points for the same letters - change the font, and you have the same characters displayed in Jewish Hebrew or Phoenician.
That proves nothing at all. In fact, I have a number of Phoenician fonts using Latin clones to represent Phoenician letters. I have yet to find a single font with Hebrew encoding and Phoenician glyphs. I'm not "betting" either. I have actual evidence. Hearsay does not convince.
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