Re: scripts page

Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>
> Michael Everson wrote:
> > >A Copt, and he preferred "Arabic"?
> >
> > Why not, Peter? The script is essentially Arabic. See the chart on
> > page 89 of your book, in the chapter "Epigraphic Semitic Scripts".
>
> What script? AFAIK, Copts normally speak and write Arabic, and Coptic is
> only used in the liturgy. Am I missing something?

That's the chart of Epigraphic Semitic scripts; Arabic is included, but
none of the descendants beginning with Perso-Arabic. I have the
impression that Michael tends to defend whatever the Unicode engineers
have come up with, regardless of its relation to history or
practicality.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...