From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Fri May 28 2004 - 14:57:37 CDT
D. Starner wrote:
> Shouldn’t the encoding be geared towards those who use it the most?
Who use *what* the most?
> So far, all the people who actually use this script on a day to
> day basis who have actually spoken up have been in favor of
> unification.
By "this script" presumably you mean Phoenician script, not Hebrew script.
On this list we've heard at length from Semiticists who disfavor encoding
Phoenician script -- which they don't use, since they report using
Hebrew-script transliteration, or refer to them as the same thing, etc.
Speaking up on this list isn't a criterion for anything. We don't happen
to have *on this list* any of the actual "daily basis" Phoenician-script
user community. If we did, we might have heard from them as well.
Deborah Anderson has, off-list, reported contact with scholars other than
herself who favor the encoding of Phoenician. But if by scholar you have a
narrow meaning requiring a PhD, I think she may be the only "scholar" who
has *on this list* reported that she favors encoding of Phoenician script.
Here:
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2004-m05/0083.html
That was on May 2, which is ancient history by now. Others may correct me
if I'm leaving anyone out.
Rick
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