Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > On the other hand, if you mean the time when the Greeks
> reassigned some
> > letters to the vowels, then this clashes against the fact
> that the same
> > process has been run over again by the Hebrew script, when
> it has been
> > adapted to Yiddish.
>
> How is that an invention? All they did was use Hebrew letters as their
> neighbors used Roman ones.

So, I guess that the Hebrew *abjad* (as used for the Hebrew language) and
the Yiddish *alphabet* are two totally separate writing systems!

This makes perfectly sense, by this point of view, but it is of course a
very unfamiliar concept for the Unicode gang and friends. Perhaps this is
one of the points where the two tribes here are having problems in
understanding each other.

I reminded you earlier that you should not expect scientific rigor in an
engineering work such as Unicode. To be fair, now I should remind to myself
and my Unicode friends that we should not expect engineering qualities in a
scientific theory.

In this case, it does not make sense to "unify" Hebrew and Yiddish: the
point is not minimizing the number of code points (i.e. encoded characters),
but rather maximizing our understanding of the attested writing systems.

_ Marco