From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 13:56:55 CDT
Michael Everson wrote at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, May 25, 2004:
>It is arguable that Swedish, Bokmål, Nynorsk, and
>Danish are dialects of the same mutually
>intelligible Scandinavian language. Yet they each
>have their own formal orthographies and are, in a
>sense "encoded".
>
>In the same way, even if Phoenician and Hebrew
>are *diascripts of an underlying 22-letter
>Semitic script, that doesn't mean that they
>should not be encoded.
To be analogous to the Phoenican/Hebrew situation, wouldn't Danish "A"
have to be encoded separately from Swedish "A".
Maybe I'm wrong in being flabbergasted by this co-mingling of the
concepts of orthographies and encodings as being somehow equivalent, but
I'll let the Unicode experts clarify this.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
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