On Saturday, August 09, 2003 11:14 PM, Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 09/08/2003 13:41, John Cowan wrote:
Peter Kirk scripsit:
The gap may not be large, but Philippe, John H and I have
identified a real gap. Why this antagonism against filling it?
What you
As for oe-ligature, the
French representative to WG3 (or its predecessor) said that France
could
live without it.
Even worse; the story I heard was that the committee had planned from
the start to have and in positions D7 and F7, but that late in the
process the representative from France
At 09:00 +0100 2003-08-09, Raymond Mercier wrote:
There are omissions in Michael Everson's chart in
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2311.pdf
The chart was based on Semitic languages, although purporting to be
about scripts.
No, it wasn't.
There are less obvious omissions:
1.
Madison WI
Hello:
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2311.pdf before deciding what
it is that is meant by Aramaic in the Roadmap? Note that Hebrew
descends FROM it, and that as do number of other scripts which clearly
do NOT descend from Hebrew.
First, I think the
Hello all,
I am new to this list. I have a problem and I was advised to contact this list
so that someone could possibly help me. Below is what I need help with:
Akan is used by about nine (9) million people in Ghana. In 1961, the Bureau of
Ghana languages devised a
On 04/08/2003 17:36, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
Peter Kirk asked:
A similar issue which is not Hebrew related would be a (mythical)
requirement to display a diacritic like 0315, 031B or 0322 in
isolation. It would not always be appropriate to use a space or
NBSP as a base character as this
Stefan == Stefan Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stefan m and m$ would be millieuros and millidollars. How could
Stefan anyone need anything like that?
On this side of the pond, fuel prices per gallon are quoted in m$;
I presume they quote m$ per Litre in CA, though it has been long
enough
John Cowan asked:
D17a Defective combining character sequence: A combining character
sequence that does not start with a base character.
* Defective combining character sequences occur when a sequence
of combining characters appears at the start of a string or
Kent Karlsson scripsit:
4) Encode the vowel signs as combining characters, after
the base characters they logical follow. Consider them as
double [width] combining characters, that happen to
have no ink above/below the character they apply to,
but (like double width
Michael Everson schreef:
You are lucky not having to put up with bad English like five
euro
and six cent, living in the Netherlands and speaking Dutch as you
do.
Funny. In our language, the euro behaves just as the guilder always
did, that is, the very same as what you call bad English. We
On 10/08/2003 10:09, Michael Everson wrote:
At 01:30 +0200 2003-08-10, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Whateer you think, the SPACE+diacritic is still a hack, and certainly
not a canonical equivalent (including for its properties), of the
existing spacing diacritics, which also do not fit all usages
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Hello ,
I have Problem with Unicode character in Visual C++ 6
with the MSComm control
When the OS is using Unicode
Michael wrote:
The Name Police reject this utterly. ZERO WIDTH cannot have an
expanding dynamic width.
Then what about ZERO WIDTH SPACE, which, according to TUS3, p. 238,
can grow to have a visible width when justified? And it has the
NamesList comment:
* nominally zero width,
On Sunday, August 10, 2003 12:32 AM, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Kirk scripsit:
This is a clear demonstration that Microsoft also has problems with
the mechanism which has been defined in the standard for ten years,
This is a clear demonstration that Uniscribe fails to
Peter Kirk scripsit:
0598 and 05AE are a better example at least of user confusion. There are
two separate functions, agreed, but they don't correspond to the Unicode
names and glyphs.
If the names are wrong, we can add commentary saying so. If the glyphs are
wrong, we can correct them.
On Sunday, August 10, 2003 9:17 PM, Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/08/2003 10:09, Michael Everson wrote:
It is the formally specified way to represent what you say you want
to represent. If an implementation doesn't do that nicely enough,
complain to the implementors. (This
Peter Kirk said:
Tell Microsoft! (See Noah Levitt's posting.)
Indeed.
If this is indeed The standard way to do what you want, then the
standard needs to make it clear that the sequence of space, combining
mark or NBSP, combining mark has the properties which I want, i.e. it
has the
Elaine Keown
Madison
Dearest Michael,
I really, really, really don't have time to debug your
dissatisfaction with the use of the word Aramaic in the Roadmaps.
This is NOT something anyone is working actively on right now. When a
I'm not writing about
On Sunday, August 10, 2003 9:17 PM, Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/08/2003 10:09, Michael Everson wrote:
At 01:30 +0200 2003-08-10, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Whateer you think, the SPACE+diacritic is still a hack, and
certainly not a canonical equivalent (including for its
On 07/08/2003 07:27, Philippe Verdy wrote:
On Thursday, August 07, 2003 2:40 AM, Doug Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kenneth Whistler kenw at sybase dot com wrote:
But I challenge you to find anything in the standard that
*prohibits* such sequences from occurring.
I've learned
Peter Kirk asked:
If I want to do this, should I explicitly encode a dotted circle, or
should I encode nothing and expect the font to generate the dotted
circle, as it often does?
If you want to represent the text content of a dotted circle with
an accent on it, the recommended
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