Re: statistics

2010-10-12 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 10/11/2010 9:49 PM, Janusz S. Bień wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 announceme...@unicode.org wrote: The newly finalized Unicode Version 6.0 adds 2,088 characters, What is the current total? Are other statistic informations available somewhere? The announcement gives a link to click

Re: statistics

2010-10-12 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On 10/11/2010 9:49 PM, Janusz S. Bień wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 announceme...@unicode.org wrote: The newly finalized Unicode Version 6.0 adds 2,088 characters, What is the current total? Are other statistic informations

Re: statistics

2010-10-12 Thread Andrew West
2010/10/12 Janusz S. Bień jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl:   The newly finalized Unicode Version 6.0 adds 2,088 characters, What is the current total? Are other statistic informations available somewhere? However it does not provide the precise answer to my primary question, which is not purely

FW: statistics

2010-10-12 Thread Ernest van den Boogaard
FW to Unicode ml From: ernestvandenbooga...@hotmail.com To: jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl Subject: RE: statistics Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:13:17 +0200 In 5.2, Chapter 2.4 table 2-3 is listed which General Categories are characters. Out are: Surrogates, Private Use, Non-characters and Reserved

Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-12 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
Not satisfied with the plain text only option on Twitter, a trend currently seems to be to write love as ℒℴѵℯ (U+2112, U+2134, U+0475, U+212F) to get a sort of handwritten display. Creative, that's for sure. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン

Re: statistics

2010-10-12 Thread Doug Ewell
Ernest van den Boogaard wrote: In 5.2, Chapter 2.4 table 2-3 is listed which General Categories are characters. Out are: Surrogates, Private Use, Non-characters and Reserved code points. Note that Format characters (Cf) are included as characters. The code points with formatting aspects in C0

Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-12 Thread Leonardo Boiko
I guess it’s only a matter of 퐭퐢퐦퐞 before people start doing things like 햙햍햎햘 (notice this email is plain-text). -- Leonardo Boiko

James Kass and Code2000 font

2010-10-12 Thread Alan Wood
I am used to relying on fonts from James Kass to display new Unicode characters, but his fonts have not been updated for Unicode 5.2 yet, and he has not contributed to this list for some time. I have e-mailed him, but he has not replied, which is not usual for James. Does anyone know what has

Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-12 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Leonardo Boiko leobo...@gmail.com wrote: I guess it’s only a matter of 퐭퐢퐦퐞 before people start doing things like 햙햍햎햘 (notice this email is plain-text). Not that soon on Twitter, as Twitter apparently runs a filter and cuts off all characters above U+ a

Re: Creative people on Twitter

2010-10-12 Thread Doug Ewell
Leonardo Boiko leoboiko at gmail dot com wrote: I guess it’s only a matter of 퐭퐢퐦퐞 before people start doing things like 햙햍햎햘 (notice this email is plain-text). I assumed this would become a big fad, back when I wrote my MathText tool to automate the process, but it turns out not to have

RE: OpenType update for Unicode 5.2/6.0?

2010-10-12 Thread Peter Constable
We are in the process of updating the tags to sync with Unicode 6.0. This has to be coordinated with the ISO Open Font Format standard, so may take a little time. Peter From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of John H. Jenkins Sent: Monday, October 11,

Irrational numeric values in TUS

2010-10-12 Thread karl williamson
The Unicode standard only gives numeric values to rational numbers. Is the reason for this merely because of the difficulty of representing irrational ones? In looking through the list of code points, I actually found only one case where a character totally unambiguously refers to a

My take on the Unicode 6.0 release

2010-10-12 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Here is the tailored announcement I wrote for the Persian computing community: http://www.advogato.org/person/roozbeh/diary/163.html Roozbeh

Re: Irrational numeric values in TUS

2010-10-12 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Karl Williamson asked: The Unicode standard only gives numeric values to rational numbers. Is the reason for this merely because of the difficulty of representing irrational ones? No. Primarily it is because the Unicode Standard is a *character* encoding standard, and not a standard for

Re: Irrational numeric values in TUS

2010-10-12 Thread Asmus Freytag
Ken, some comments, and a few suggestions near the end. On 10/12/2010 4:56 PM, Kenneth Whistler wrote: Karl Williamson asked: The Unicode standard only gives numeric values to rational numbers. Is the reason for this merely because of the difficulty of representing irrational ones? No.

Re: Irrational numeric values in TUS

2010-10-12 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Asmus, I'm curious if any thought was given to this, and what code points I'm missing in my analysis. U+1D452 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL E (or merely U+0065 LATIN SMALL LETTER E), also used for Euler's number. See also U+2147. Now you are confusing Euler's constant - also depicted with

Re: OpenType update for Unicode 5.2/6.0?

2010-10-12 Thread Ngwe Tun
Dear Peter Costable, it might be off-topic, When Microsoft will fix MLang bugs for Myanmar? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2008/04/18/8403631.aspx Burmese Font Developer, We are making fonts without Microsoft OpenType font specifiction for Myanmar. Can we have any of specification for

RE: OpenType update for Unicode 5.2/6.0?

2010-10-12 Thread Peter Constable
I can’t comment on when limitations in MLang will be addressed; I can only say that we are aware of them. Can you clarify what you think is missing from Character Map? Peter From: Ngwe Tun [mailto:ngwes...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 7:39 PM To: Peter Constable Cc: John H.