From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 08:13:04 CDT
At 08:05 -0400 2004-05-14, Dean Snyder wrote:
> >> Why make something we do all the time more difficult and non-standard,
> >> when what we do now works very well?
What you do now is transliterate Phoenician text into Hebrew or Latin.
> >Nobody plans to take away your rights and ability to continue
> >doing what you now do, if it works very well for you. Please,
>>sir, continue doing what you are doing with your current data. :-)
>
>It's incredible to me that you and others keep repeating this
>mantra, ignoring the fact (repeated for the nth time) that we will
>all be forced, in our separate research projects, to deal with
>MULTIPLE, COMPETING encodings.
You already do that, since Hebrew and Latin are "competing" encodings.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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