At 06:02 +0200 2004-05-23, Jony Rosenne wrote:
Since there are 22 letters with similar meanings and similar names, there is not much difference between transliteration and encoding in practice.
Except legibility.
I don't think the history of writing systems is going to help us here. There is no disagreement about the facts, just about their interpretation.
Historical principles have influenced, and will influence, what gets encoded. That's part of the universality of the Universal Character Set.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
