At 19:00 -0400 2004-05-21, Dean Snyder wrote:
>>>Furthermore, this has the advantage of side-stepping the wholeissue of the origins of the Greek alphabet along with its subsequent Mediterranean script descendants, while not mucking up Canaanite which is already encoded in Unicode, albeit somewhat "prematurely", or "misnamed", as Hebrew.
Zounds.
What tripe. I mean really, what tripe.
Can you back up your assertions with anything other than inflammatory reactions?
What, specifically, is tripe about this sentence?
The suggestion that Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 encoded "Canaanite" is ridiculous. What was encoded was the Square Hebrew which is the national script of Israel etc etc etc.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
