From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 23:29:55 CDT
Michael Everson wrote at 11:25 PM on Friday, May 21, 2004:
>At 16:01 -0400 2004-05-21, Dean Snyder wrote:
>>I was responding to Michael's positive assertion that he has "yet to find
>>a single font with Hebrew encoding and Phoenician glyphs". The weight of
>>that statement is directly proportional to the quality of his search.
>
>What a pile of poo, Dean. I can send you any number of Phoenician
>fonts in Latin coding with no trouble. You can find them easily with
>a simple google. You've yet to support your thesis that there are
>loads of Phoenician glyphs out there with Hebrew code points. Putting
>the blame on me?
You're mixing references to Unicode and overloaded ASCII (or other pre-
Unicode code pages).
What I said was that most of the Hebrew fonts that people have are Latin
clones (i.e., overloaded ASCII), and I would bet that the corresponding
Phoenician fonts use the same (ASCII) code points for the same characters
as their Hebrew counterparts. That's all I was saying.
I did not address whether or not people are using Unicode Hebrew code
points for Phoenician/Paleo-Hebrew glyphs, although almost all fonts for
archaic Semitic scripts with which I am familiar are not Unicode based,
and so that fact alone would tend to artificially skew the statistics in
your favor ;-)
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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