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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>
  • To: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew with Aramaic, Phoenician etc in scholarlypublications
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:03:41 -0700

On 17/07/2003 16:16, Karl Randolph wrote:

Actually, I have something similar on my Macintosh at home. I downloaded the
Online Bible consonant only text and made a quick reconstruction of a paleo
Hebrew font to fit it. It looks sort of like what such a manuscript may have
looked like: the sin and shin look the same and the sofit glyphs are the same
as the non-sofit glyphs, but the underlying code is still modern.

As far as I know, the Online Bible is the only version that has the option of
a consonant only text, at least for the Macintosh. The main thing keeping me
from taking that text and re-encoding it in paleo-Hebrew is that there is no
such encoding in unicode yet.

Karl W. Randolph.



Well, it's debatable in Unicode whether paleo-Hebrew should be considered a variety of Phoenician which will (see http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/) probably sometime be encoded in the block 00010930-0001094F (and it's pretty certain that in that case the order of characters will be very like the proposal http://www.evertype.com/standards/plane-1/ph.html), or whether it is considered a variety of Hebrew in which case the paleo-Hebrew letters are considered glyph variants of the modern Hebrew ones. The latter is certainly the safer choice at present. Perhaps you can get together with Jim West to re-encode his paleo-Hebrew font, see http://web.infoave.net/~jwest/fonts.html, with the appropriate Unicode encoding. If you simply assign zero width blank glyphs to all the vowels, cantillation marks etc, any Unicode Hebrew text (e.g. the cantillated Bible text from http://www.mechon-mamre.org/) will automatically come out how you want it. You may even become the first person for more than 2000 years to actually read the Bible in this script. Exciting, but I'm not sure how practical.

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Peter Kirk
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