From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Fri Dec 19 2003 - 16:49:52 EST
So what about Chinese, Japanese and Korean? Was it wrong to unify them?
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:verdy_p@wanadoo.fr]
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 11:40 PM
> To: Jony Rosenne
> Cc: Unicode@Unicode.Org
> Subject: RE: [hebrew] Re: Aramaic unification and
> information retrieval
>
> Jony Rosenne wrote:
> > Michael Everson
> > > Samaritan and Phoenician are not font variants of Hebrew/Square
> > > Hebrew/Jewish or whatever else you want to call it.
> >
> > But Square Hebrew IS a font variant of Ancient Hebrew or
> Phoenician or
> > Canaanite, whatever you want to call it, and so is Samaritan.
>
> Do not mix script families (or genetic history) with their actual use.
> Each time a script has evolved in a parallel way for other languages,
> it has introduced its own distinctive features.
>
> With your argument, we would have to unify the Latin, Greek and
> Cyrillic scripts, because they have the same origin. Now move onto
> their common Phenician origin and we have to unify it with Semitic
> scripts... What disunified them was the writing direction, which was
> not fixed in early scripts that allowed boustrophedon ordering,
> and that had simpler designs with more independant glyphs, and the
> way the various glyphs combine to create sometimes new letters.
>
> For me two scripts that are different enough so that a text written
> in one script will have imprecise matches in another, and will be
> hardly recognizable by readers is a candidate to a separate encoding,
> because it starts its own family of supplementary letters specific
> to some families of languages needing these extensions.
>
> Some of these extensions do not have equivalent in the origin
> script, and sometimes (often?) their usage start to split with
> distinct semantics (see for example the various forms of
> the so-called "Tamazigh" script which is certainly better
> represented as a family of scripts rather than a single script,
> with as much differences between them than between Greek and
> Cyrillic).
>
>
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