At 12:42 -0800 2004-11-08, D. Starner wrote:
That's sheer hubris.
It's a result of long experience in these matters.
It's a classifaction scheme; if there are reasonable people who would unify and reasonable people who would seperate, then there is no right and wrong, there's only a choice to be made, which can neither be completely correct or completely wrong.
Quite honestly, the people who would unify have not been particularly reasonable. Only now is one of them coming around to accept the taxonomy we have used in approaching the task of encoding all the world's writing systems, and even then, he's suggesting that informative text in the standard about that taxonomy is more important than getting the job done.
Encoding Phoenician should have been a great pleasure, a celebration of heritage. Alas it was a bitter exercise in damage control.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
