Michael Everson wrote at 5:02 PM on Tuesday, May 25, 2004: >At 11:23 -0400 2004-05-25, Dean Snyder wrote: > >>2) I used only capital letters, since they mirror more closely the >>legibility issues associated with Old Canaanite legibility. > >Invalidating your "test" because German Fraktur of that style was not >typically set in all caps, and native Germans fluent in Fraktur would >have had trouble reading it.
So, you are saying there are glyph streams in German Fraktur that fluent, native Germans would have trouble reading. Then, based on reasoning being applied to Phoenician, Fraktur (or at least Fraktur capitals) should be separately encoded. 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
