Michael Everson wrote at 2:45 AM on Friday, May 21, 2004: >At 21:28 -0400 2004-05-20, Dean Snyder wrote: >>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.
Where have you looked? Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 cell: 717 817-4897 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
