On 12/11/2003 12:55, Jim Allan wrote:
...Many biblical Hebrew users still prefer one of many ASCII or ISO-8859-1 ciphers of Hebrew, complete with visual ordering, to the defined Unicode script. Is that an argument for deprecating the script and recognising the cipher?
As far as I can see, for example, Unifon people favor an ASCII cipher encoding over the conscript registry coding of Unifon. An IPA-based cipher encoding might be better.
If users of any script prefer an encoding of that script other than Unicode and prefer an encoding which is not easily converted to Unicode then the situation will have to be lived with.
If a vast preponderance of users of any script turn out to prefer a cipher encoding of Latin or another script to what Unicode provides then that situation will also have to be lived with. It might indeed end in Unicode recommending against use of the Unicode encoding of a specific script because it is not generally used.
Jim Allan
