From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 01:10:58 EST
[sorry for the delay; I'm trying to catch up on this list]
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> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
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> Behalf Of Michael Everson
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 2:56 PM
> At 14:39 -0800 2003-12-23, John Hudson wrote:
>
> >Now, that said, I am very keen to have the Samaritan shin encoded,
> >because this is used as a mark in the apparatus critici of the BHS
> >and possibly other Bible editions (in BHS it used in citations of
> >Pentateuchi textus Hebraeo-Samaritanus secundum). I'd be perfectly
> >happy to see it encoded as a Letterlike Symbol, since it is being
> >used as a symbol and not as a Samaritan letter.
>
> Perhaps it must be in any case, due to directionality issues.
Apparently nobody noticed that I submitted a proposal for this thing
last year, the response to which was that it should be left until all of
Samaritan is encoded.
Peter Constable
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