John Hudson a écrit :
Again, I am not opposing the encoding of 'Phoenician': I just want to see the real issues resolved. To my mind, there is essentially only one major issue in encoding the ancient North Semitic script separately from Hebrew: how should users encode Palaeo-Hebrew texts? With the new codepoints, or with the Hebrew codepoints? The text is Hebrew, but the appropriate glyph forms are ancient North Semitic. I do think there is the possibility of significant confusion, which is not grounds for refusing to encode the ancient North Semitic script, but does suggest that a specific recommendation should be made, either in the TUS or by an appropriate and representative scholarly body.
I concur with John, I believe the Phoenician proposal is a good one and a useful one (I'm partcularly more interested in the Punic and Neopunic and I believe the Phoenician encoding is a much more natural one than Hebrew). This said I would like to see Peter Kirk's issues addressed : what to do with Paleo-Hebrew data which are -- if I understand properly -- encoded with Hebrew codepoints and are considered as merely stylistic variants of Hebrew.
P. A.
