At 17:10 -0800 2004-11-07, Doug Ewell wrote:
But didn't someone already point out that with OpenType tables, it would be relatively easy to map "alternate" Phoenician glyphs to the existing Hebrew code points?
That would presume that Phoenician and Hebrew are the same script, Doug, which they are NOT.
This seems to indicate that simply being a "font designer" in 2004 would not be enough to favor separate encoding of Phoenician. There would have to be other reasons...
And, indeed, there are. It's that pesky "node" thing, that transcends language and identifies scripts.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
