From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Nov 10 2003 - 07:50:37 EST
At 04:04 -0800 2003-11-10, Peter Kirk wrote:
>Languages formerly written in Cyrillic are now being written in
>Latin script with a one to one mapping. Proposals are in preparation
>for extra Hebrew characters used by particular communities for
>western languages which are more commonly written in Latin script.
>But if these usages of the Latin and Hebrew alphabets are mere
>ciphers, should they be supported by Unicode?
Not if they are "mere ciphers".
>And then what about the use by Freemasons of the Samaritan script?
Irrelevant. The Samaritan script is roadmapped already because of its real use.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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