Michael Everson wrote at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, May 25, 2004: >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.
To be analogous to the Phoenican/Hebrew situation, wouldn't Danish "A" have to be encoded separately from Swedish "A". Maybe I'm wrong in being flabbergasted by this co-mingling of the concepts of orthographies and encodings as being somehow equivalent, but I'll let the Unicode experts clarify this. 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
