Ted Hopp wrote:
On Friday, May 21, 2004 3:01 PM, John Hudson wrote:
Let me rephrase the point as a question:
What in the encoding of 'Phoenician' characters in Unicode
obliges anyone to use those characters for ancient Canaanite
texts?
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An analogous statement can be made of any script in Unicode. We can all
continue to use code pages or the myriad Hebrew fonts that put the
glyphs at
Latin-0 code points. If the proposed Phoenician block can be so easily
ignored in encoding ancient Canaanite texts, then is the block really
needed?
A Phoenician block is obviously not needed by those who wish to
represent Phoenician / ancient Canaanite texts with Hebrew Characters.
It is only needed by those who wish to represent Phoenician text with
Phoenician characters and Hebrew text with Hebrew characters.
- Chris
