Re: Phoenician

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 17:56:10 CDT


At 15:46 -0400 2004-05-07, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
>Jony Rosenne scripsit:
>
>> A possible strong negative argument would be if having it would cause
>> problems for those who do not think they need it. For example, if it would
>> make searching more difficult. This argument has been raised, but I am not
>> convinced the possible difficulties are significant.
>
>This could be solved by making Phoenician and Hebrew base characters
>equivalent
>at the first level of collation.

Not in the default template; we don't mix scripts. But Semiticists
who wanted to mix the two could tailor the ordering, of course.

-- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com


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