--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> Michael Everson wrote:
> > I have helped to encode Balinese, Braille,
> > Buginese, Buhid, Cherokee, Coptic, Cuneiform,
> > Cypriot, Deseret, Ethiopic, Georgian, Glagolitic,
> > Gothic, Hanunóo, Khmer, Limbu, Linear B,
> > Mongolian, Myanmar, New Tai Lue, N'Ko, Ogham, Old
> > Italic, Old Persian, Osmanya, Phoenician, Runic,
> > Shavian, Sinhala, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Le,
> > Thaana, Tibetan, Ugaritic, Unified Canadian
> > Aboriginal Syllabics, and Yi, as well as many
> > characters belonging to the Latin, Greek,
> > Cyrillic, and Arabic scripts.
>
> There have certainly been major complaints about Cuneiform, Old

Persian,

> Phoenician, and Ugaritic; I would have no occasion to encounter
> complaints in areas outside my own specialization.

I believe the only significant complaint about Phoenician is about
its being encoded, not how it is proposed to encode it. Germany is
still blocking its encoding (
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/N2959.pdf , August 2005).

I have seen objections to the non-unification of Hanunóo, Tagalog and
Tagbanwa. In both cases it comes down to how one handles script
continua. Some people find it more convenient to lump; others to
split.

Richard.