Michael Everson wrote at 11:25 PM on Friday, May 21, 2004: >At 16:01 -0400 2004-05-21, Dean Snyder wrote: >>I was responding to Michael's positive assertion that he has "yet to find >>a single font with Hebrew encoding and Phoenician glyphs". The weight of >>that statement is directly proportional to the quality of his search. > >What a pile of poo, Dean. I can send you any number of Phoenician >fonts in Latin coding with no trouble. You can find them easily with >a simple google. You've yet to support your thesis that there are >loads of Phoenician glyphs out there with Hebrew code points. Putting >the blame on me?
You're mixing references to Unicode and overloaded ASCII (or other pre- Unicode code pages). What I said was that most of the Hebrew fonts that people have are Latin clones (i.e., overloaded ASCII), and I would bet that the corresponding Phoenician fonts use the same (ASCII) code points for the same characters as their Hebrew counterparts. That's all I was saying. I did not address whether or not people are using Unicode Hebrew code points for Phoenician/Paleo-Hebrew glyphs, although almost all fonts for archaic Semitic scripts with which I am familiar are not Unicode based, and so that fact alone would tend to artificially skew the statistics in your favor ;-) 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
