On 08/02/2002 12:19:20 AM James Kass wrote:
Now I get it. Still think Kenneth Whistler's suggestions for covering
all kinds of display problems would be better than encoding a new
character for this limited purpose, though.
It's about as useful as the control pictures (2400..2426 -- which is
Periphrasis is always possible, of course; but that doesn't mean that it is desirable.
1. Periphrasis is by definition longer. In a page where you want to present a lot of
information and not have it squeezed out by meta-information, the first paragraph in
my example could read Seeing things
It would be a nice way to address the issue.
In an ideal world, every computer would have a last resort font so that it can
*always* find a glyph for a particular codepoint, and there would then be no need for
any glyph that says sorry, can't display.
I think you will probably agree that an
Well...
1. Since all existing fonts already display the new character correctly, there would
be no overwhelming need for any font designer to alter any font at all. If they
choose, despite this, to copy their own interpretation of 'missing character' from
Glyph ID zero into the new slot, this
Precisando desenvolver um projeto, localizei os caracteres de
que necessito nas tabelas de código "Latin".
Alguns deles estão na "Latin-1 Supplement", outros na "Latin
Extened-A", outros na "Latin Extened-B" e outros na "Latin Extened Additional".
Mas para utilizá-los, só é possível por
At 09:17 PM 8/2/02 +0100, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
I find the comments therein rather perplexing, especially seeing as how if
the digraphic characters were in fact denoted by a singular new glyph, then
they would certainly have been included.
Then it would be a new character. As it is, it's only a
At 11:11 +0100 2002-08-01, Martin Kochanski wrote:
Otto Stolz suggested U+03A2, which would be equally valid. However,
U+03A2 is quite obviously the code for GREEK CAPITAL LETTER FINAL
SIGMA.
Nope. Can't encode a nonexistent letter. Can encode ANYTHING WE WANT
anywhere that's free. Them's
If anyone wants to represent fontless characters and uses anything
other than a kind of Last Resort font they are being very silly in my
view. OmniWeb and TextEdit handle these elegantly and helpfully.
--
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
At 11:13 +0200 2002-08-01, Otto Stolz wrote:
I have selected U+03A2 with care: this code point covers the place
of a non-existing Greek capital letter final sigma. I think that
this code-point -- while, admittedly, unsafe as any other unassigned
one -- is rather unlikely to get assigned a
At 04:19 PM 02-08-02, David Starner wrote:
Stop being so ethnocentric. The extended Latin alphabet alone is much
larger than 26 characters, and that ignores all the Cyrillic languages,
some of which were probably written with digraphs.
And trigraphs and, in at least one Cyrillic transcription
At 04:48 PM 02-08-02, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
... and some extreme case
orthographies are known that employ up to *hepta*graphs!
Ooo, I want one! Do you have any examples, Ken?
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Language must belong to
At 04:48 PM 02-08-02, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
... and some extreme case
orthographies are known that employ up to *hepta*graphs!
Ooo, I want one! Do you have any examples, Ken?
If I recall correctly, that one was a technical orthography
of Nama -- but I can't track down an online
As I was saying about Hawaiian and 2-letter codes...
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At 06:04 PM 8/2/02 -0700, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
In the meantime, for a sampler of some of the wild multigraphs
used in various orthographies for Khoi and San languages, try
http://www.african.gu.se/khsnms.html
Examples: '//Ng -- there's a pentagraph for you.
//Kx', //Kh' and so on.
Ouch.
On 08/02/2002 03:17:56 PM Sean B. Palmer wrote:
If anyone has any comments on this, or any references to previous
discussions, they would be gladly recieved.
Any discussion of encoding Latin digraphs as units makes an unvalidated assumption that there is some benefit to be gained. We've gone
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