You suggest that *diascript is to script as dialect is to language.
It is arguable that Swedish, Bokmål, Nynorsk, and Danish are dialects of the same mutually intelligible Scandinavian language. Yet they each have their own formal orthographies and are, in a sense "encoded".
In the same way, even if Phoenician and Hebrew are *diascripts of an underlying 22-letter Semitic script, that doesn't mean that they should not be encoded.
Pauses.
Thinks.
I think this argument is at an end. I am tired of false analogies and fake challenges.
Separate encoding of Phoenician will not ruin Unicode forever for Semitic studies. Not one of the claims made by any of you to the contrary have any merit.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
