Peter Constable wrote at 1:36 PM on Tuesday, May 25, 2004: >- In the case of PH, some / all Semitic paleographers consider these to >be the same characters as square Hebrew characters. There are others, >however, who do not.
I recall no one saying they are not the same characters. >Can we agree to drop the discussion of Fraktur now? A better way to put this, and the only reason I brought up Fraktur to begin with, is to ask, Can we agree to drop the legibility argument for Phoenician? Or at least use it consistent with its use for other scripts encoded in Unicode? 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
