Michael Everson wrote:
>> Hebrew has the same 22 characters, with the same character properties.
And a baroque set of additional marks and signs, none of which apply to any of the Phoenician letterforms, EVER, in the history of typography, reading, and literature.
And a baroque set of additional marks and signs, none of which apply any of the STAM letterforms...
Stam are clearly letterforms belonging to the Square Hebrew tradition. Phoenician letterforms do not.
Historical relationships have, do, and will continue to inform some of the choices we make in determining what to encode in the Universal Character Set.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
