From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 09:54:03 EDT
At 08:42 -0400 2003-07-15, Karljürgen Feuerherm wrote:
> Michael Everson said:
> > My native script isn't Hebrew but I am certain that no one who was could
> > easily read a newspaper article written in Phoenician or Samaritan letters.
>
>Surely that is not an argument for encoding a separate script, is it?
It is sometimes. :-)
>Most German people I know can't read the German
>cursive script used say 50 years ago. But the
>characters clearly correspond to the Latin
>characters in use today.
The handwriting is difficult to read. One would
think that in German schools it would be at least
introduced so children would know about it.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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