RE: Phoenician

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 09:54:36 CDT


> >[PA] I also got this feedback from Lionel Galand (of Tifinagh and Libyan
> >fame) about Punic : «Je peux vous dire que j'ai souvent travaillé sur
> >des répertoires de documents puniques qui étaient publiés en caractères
> >hébraïques. »
>
> This could be multiplied a hundredfold.

The same could be said of Devanagari or Arabic text published in Roman transcription. That does not mean that we do not encode Devanagari or Arabic, or that encoding those scripts prevents the same people from continuing to publish in Roman transcription.

Peter Constable



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