D. Starner wrote: > Shouldn’t the encoding be geared towards those who use it the most?
Who use *what* the most? > So far, all the people who actually use this script on a day to > day basis who have actually spoken up have been in favor of > unification. By "this script" presumably you mean Phoenician script, not Hebrew script. On this list we've heard at length from Semiticists who disfavor encoding Phoenician script -- which they don't use, since they report using Hebrew-script transliteration, or refer to them as the same thing, etc. Speaking up on this list isn't a criterion for anything. We don't happen to have *on this list* any of the actual "daily basis" Phoenician-script user community. If we did, we might have heard from them as well. Deborah Anderson has, off-list, reported contact with scholars other than herself who favor the encoding of Phoenician. But if by scholar you have a narrow meaning requiring a PhD, I think she may be the only "scholar" who has *on this list* reported that she favors encoding of Phoenician script. Here: http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2004-m05/0083.html That was on May 2, which is ancient history by now. Others may correct me if I'm leaving anyone out. Rick
