Re: Qamats Qatan (was Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?)

2004-05-20 Thread Michael Everson
At 22:18 -0700 2004-05-19, John Hudson wrote: I don't automatically accept the argument, made by Michael earlier today, that 'There is a requirement for distinction for X in plain-text'. The Universal Character Set is supposed to contain all the scripts of the world. For generations students of

RE: Qamats Qatan (was Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?)

2004-05-19 Thread Jony Rosenne
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hudson Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 1:08 AM To: Michael Everson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7? ... In discussions of whether to

Re: Qamats Qatan (was Response to Everson Phoenician and why June 7?)

2004-05-19 Thread John Hudson
Jony Rosenne wrote: *Except by Jony, who is always encouraging us to use markup to make distinctions. I don't recall saying anything like this in this Phoenician discussion. Acknowledged. My point was not about that discussion in particular, but about the generic question of to what degree