From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 18:25:04 CDT
At 19:00 -0400 2004-05-21, Dean Snyder wrote:
> >>>Furthermore, this has the advantage of side-stepping the whole
>>>>issue of the origins of the Greek alphabet along with its
>>>>subsequent Mediterranean script descendants, while not mucking up
>>>>Canaanite which is already encoded in Unicode, albeit somewhat
>>>>"prematurely", or "misnamed", as Hebrew.
>>
>>Zounds.
>>
>>What tripe. I mean really, what tripe.
>
>Can you back up your assertions with anything other than inflammatory
>reactions?
>
>What, specifically, is tripe about this sentence?
The suggestion that Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 encoded "Canaanite" is
ridiculous. What was encoded was the Square Hebrew which is the
national script of Israel etc etc etc.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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