From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 07:25:15 EST
On 25/11/2003 03:54, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 03:41 -0800 2003-11-25, Peter Kirk wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> But the floodgates have already been opened - not just Ethiopic but
>> Greek extended, much of Latin extended, the Korean syllables which
>> started this discussion, the small amount of precomposed Hebrew which
>> we already have, etc. People have tried to force them shut, and with
>> good reason. But don't accuse me of starting something new.
>
>
> You are, because the floodgates, while once open, have been closed by
> normalization.
Read what I wrote before:
> This approach would certainly have simplified pointed Hebrew a lot,
> ... But I guess it is too late for a change now!
I recognised clearly that it is too late to make this change now,
although it might have been a good thing to do when the floodgates were
open (although as Mark pointed out it would not necessarily have made
things easier). I don't want to reopen them.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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