Michael Everson wrote at 8:19 AM on Monday, May 3, 2004: >Phoenician script, on the other hand, is so >different that its use renders a ritual scroll >unclean.
I'm just guessing that the same thing would be true for modern cursive Hebrew? Regardless, since when is the ritual uncleanness of fonts a trigger for encoding? Just do a "Select All" and change the font! >Either way, pointed and cantillated text >displayed in a Phoenician font is a JOKE at best. >And not a very good one. The same could be said for accented archaic Greek - do you want to encode archaic Greek separately? Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 cell: 717 817-4897 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi