From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 08:29:38 EDT
On 29/04/2004 04:42, C J Fynn wrote:
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>Since a formal proposal has now been submitted, formal objections to that
>proposal can also be submitted.
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>- Chris
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Just submitted:
Michael Everson has made a proposal, N2746, for encoding the Phoenician
script in the UCS. The principle of encoding Phoenician separately from
Hebrew has been discussed at length e.g. on the Unicode Hebrew list, and
remains highly controversial. Indeed it seems to have won little support
in these discussions apart from that of the current proposer. The
general scholarly practice is to encode Phoenician, paleo-Hebrew etc as
Hebrew script with variant glyphs. A change to using a separate
Phoenician script will be disruptive and will compromise existing
encoded texts. The user community is apparently far from convinced that
the negative effects of this change will be outweighed by any claimed
benefits.
In section C point 2a of the proposal the proposer states that no
contact has been made with the user community. In fact there has been
some contact, at least on the Unicode Hebrew list, but the users
contacted have not been in favour of the principle of the proposal.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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