Michael Everson 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.
Which is what I was planning to say. I would have added that Fraktur typesetters in past centuries created "all-caps" words by capitalizing only the first TWO letters of the word, such was the difficulty *anyone* would have reading Fraktur in all caps as Dean Snyder displayed it. So far, so good. But then Dean responded: > 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. This reply is so completely devoid of logic and reason that it's clear to me that any counter-reply based on logic and reason will fall on deaf ears. I will not participate further in this thread, nor any of its ancestors and descendants. Have fun, guys. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
