Michael Everson wrote at 9:26 AM on Monday, May 3, 2004: >If you people, after all of this discussion, can think that it is >possible to print a newspaper article in Hebrew language or Yiddish >in Phoenician letters, then all I can say is that understanding of >the fundamentals of script identity is at an all-time low. I'm really >surprised.
Is it possible to print a newspaper article using archaic Greek letters and it still be legible to a modern Greek reader? If not, are you going to propose encoding archaic Greek separately? [As a reference, one could, for example, take a glance at the alphabetic chart you provide in figure 1 of your proposal.) 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