From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 23:25:59 CST
Rick McGowan wrote at 11:21 AM on Saturday, May 1, 2004:
>Peter Kirk wrote...
>> I have yet to see ANY EVIDENCE AT ALL
>> that ANYONE AT ALL has a need for this encoding.
>
>Ahem. Define "need". On this list we don't have the right set of people to
>ask, actually. That is why the proposal has already been forwarded to
>other people on other lists who may (or do) want or "need" the encoding.
I do see that Deborah Anderson has posted a request for comments on the
Phoenician proposal (appended below) to some Ancient Near Eastern email
lists to which I subscribe. I think this is a great idea, except for the
request that all responses be sent to her or to two officials of the
Unicode Consortium. I would have preferred that the readers be directed
to the Unicode Hebrew email list or encouraged to discuss the topic
openly on the Ancient Near Eastern lists. Open discussion is much more
helpful and more efficient than isolated responses.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
218C New Engineering Building
3400 North Charles Street
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218
office: 410 516-6850
cell: 717 817-4897
www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
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>A proposal to encode Phoenician as a separate script in Unicode has been
>received and feedback is requested from scholars who work with
>Phoenician. The proposal can be found at:
>http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2746.pdf
>
>Encoding Phoenician in Unicode would enable it to be used in text that
>is sent and stored electronically (i.e., email, word-processing
>documents, Webpages).
>
>Key questions that need to be addressed in reviewing this proposal are:
>
>* Are you in favor of encoding Phoenician in Unicode?
>
>* Does this proposal cover the characters needed? Is anything missing?
>(Note: Unicode does not encode variants.)
>
>* Are the glyphs (representative pictures in the chart on p. 14)
>accurate? (Note: These are intended only to be representative and are
>not definitive. A font would offer more variety in the shapes of the
>glyphs.)
>
>* Are the names in the names list (p. 15) acceptable?
>
>* Is the information in the introduction accurate?
>
>* The proposal recommends that by using the Phoenician encoding with a
>change in font Proto-Sinaitic/Proto-Canaanite, Punic, Neo-Punic,
>Phoenician proper, Late Phoenician cursive, Phoenician papyrus, Siloam
>Hebrew, Hebrew seals, Ammonite, Moabite, and Palaeo-Hebrew could be
>represented.
>Is this unification acceptable or would you prefer to have these not
>unified?
>
>Comments on the proposal need to be received by June 7, 2004 (but
>preferably earlier). Please send an email message identifying yourself
>with your specific comments to me, Deborah Anderson
>(dwanders@socrates.berkeley.edu), or mail a letter to the two committees
>that will be discussing the proposal:
>
>Lisa Moore
>c/o The Unicode Consortium
>P.O. Box 391476
>Mountain View, CA 94039-1476
>U.S.A.
>
>Mike Ksar, Chair ISO JTC1/SC2 WG2
>c/o The Unicode Consortium
>P.O. Box 391476
>Mountain View, CA 94039-1476
>U.S.A.
>
>This is part of a project that works to ensure that Unicode proposals
>are properly reviewed by scholars and user communities, the Script
>Encoding Initiative. For further information, please see:
>www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~dwanders .
>
>Deborah Anderson
>Project Leader, Script Encoding Initiative
>www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~dwanders
>Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics
>UC Berkeley
>Email: dwanders@socrates.berkeley.edu
>or dwanders@pacbell.net
>
>
>
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