Peter Kirk scripsit:

> So I have an honest question. Can anyone, please, remind me of any 
> technical arguments other than legibility for the separate encoding of 
> Phoenician?

The same as the general argument for separating any two scripts: the desire
to create plain-text documents which contain combinations of them.  We
do not identify Greek with Coptic any more because Michael was able to find
mixed-script documents that the UTC agreed would deserve plain text
representability.

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