Re: Palaeo-Hebrew, Phoenician, and Unicode (Phoenician Unicode proposal)

From: jcowan@reutershealth.com
Date: Wed May 26 2004 - 12:48:17 CDT

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Peter Constable scripsit:

> So if I understand correctly, the only fonts that we know of so far that
> have PH glyphs encoded in the 0590..05FF block were developed by someone
> who thinks PH should be encoded as a distinct script from square Hebrew.

Principle is one thing, expediency another. Encoding PH as Hebrew provides
the correct bidi behavior without further ado.

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