From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 19:53:34 EDT
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of Michael Everson
> Phoenician should be encoded because it has a demonstrable usage,
> even if it's slight and mostly paedagogical
Just to be clear, does that demonstrable usage pertain to users other
than the ancient Hebrew scholars that are currently encoding
Paleo-Hebrew texts using the existing Hebrew block (and apparently wish
to continue doing so)?
If so, who are they? (The proposal doc indicates no contact with the
user community, and describes the user community in terms of
generalities: "Scholarly communities... educational communities...".)
Does that demonstrable usage consist of print publications (typically
overviews of Western Semitic writing from the 1st millennium BCE), or
does it also consist of digitally-encoded documents directed at text
research?
I'm just asking as I think it would help the situation if a few more
details on the intended user community were provided. We cannot contest
that the glyphs are in attested usage. What is of concern to some people
is whether distinct encoded characters are warranted. For that reason, I
think information about usage *as encoded information* is pertinent
here.
If you don't have info about usage in that sense, just say so. It will
help us know where things stand.
Peter
Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division
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