From: jcowan@reutershealth.com
Date: Wed May 26 2004 - 16:50:31 CDT
Peter Kirk scripsit:
> So I have an honest question. Can anyone, please, remind me of any
> technical arguments other than legibility for the separate encoding of
> Phoenician?
The same as the general argument for separating any two scripts: the desire
to create plain-text documents which contain combinations of them. We
do not identify Greek with Coptic any more because Michael was able to find
mixed-script documents that the UTC agreed would deserve plain text
representability.
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