Richard Wordingham wrote:

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

> > 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.

I'm about to copyedit a book on Mandaic. I'd love to be able to include
original orthography, but I'm going to have to work in WinWord2003, and
I haven't any idea how to fit my font into the system. Would it have to
be considered a variant of Syriac? of Arabic? It's not particularly like
either of them.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...