Michael Everson scripsit: > Well. Depends what you mean by "forms". Our taxonomy currently lists > Samaritan, Square Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Mandaic as modern (RTL) > forms of the parent Phoenician.
Arabic and Syriac have very specialized shaping behavior which makes them obviously distinct from their parent form. I believe that Mandaic has this property too. > >Ah, so the next protracted debate is going to be whether Samaritan > >should also be encoded using the existing square Hebrew characters. > > So far participants on this discussion seem to have stipulated that > Samaritan be encoded as a modern and unique script. I have merely postponed the question. I would still prefer to see an overall plan with justification (that is, an update of N2311) before any of these scripts get encoded. -- Evolutionary psychology is the theory John Cowan that men are nothing but horn-dogs, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and that women only want them for their money. http://www.reutershealth.com --Susan McCarthy (adapted) [EMAIL PROTECTED]