Documents N3923 “Proposal to add an Armenian Eternity Sign to the UCS”
(Karl Pentzlin, 2010-09-24) and N3924 “Proposal to encode two symbols for
Armenian in the UCS” (L2/10-354, Michael Everson, 2010-09-24) propose to
include RIGHT-FACING ARMENIAN ETERNITY SIGN and LEFT-FACING ARMENIAN
ETERNITY
I would not worry about this, Alex.
One of the characters has been added in part for compatibility with an existing
Armenian Standard, and is named because of its use, with a particular meaning
('eternity') in Armenia. This does not prevent anyone in Georgia or anywhere
else from using it as a
In fact the two characters are being encoded not in Plane 1, but in the
Armenian block.
I happen to know that some Armenian font foundries are working on early
implementations using the code positions there.
Do you mean their actual codes will be different from U+1F53E and U+1F53F,
specified in
On 19 Jan 2012, at 14:20, satai wrote:
Do you mean their actual codes will be different from U+1F53E and U+1F53F,
specified in M57.13?
Yes. A subsequent decision based on NB feedback on the first ballot was to move
them (back) to the Armenian block.
I am not worried, I am just trying to
Well we could try to find some other name, but I don't think that SOME
SORT OF
SUNLIKE SPIRAL SYMBOL is better than ARMENIAN ETERNITY SIGN.
It could be just ETERNITY SIGN or SOLAR SIGN (doesn't matter), without
specific attribution. (I am speaking about common-use dingbat block, of
course)
Do
satai satai at akauri dot com wrote:
I am not worried, I am just trying to understand why keeping
national attribution for a common-use character is so principal, while
these symbols have specific meaning in more than one culture and the
proposed name is not a well-known one.
I always
On 19 January 2012 15:26, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote:
I always assumed that ARMENIAN in the name of these characters referred
to the script with which they are usually used, not the country of
Armenia. Names of countries aren't normally used in character names;
that's why we have FARSI
This is a true dingbat, it is not used neither in Armenian, nor in Georgian
script if we stay within a scope of writing system. If we get beyond this
scope, then it is used both in Armenian and in Georgian scripts.
(What about FARSI SYMBOL, there is no confusion, it is specific to a
culture, which
On 19 Jan 2012, at 16:33, satai wrote:
RIGHT-FACING ETERNITY SIGN and LEFT-FACING ETERNITY SIGN are completely
neutral names.
Except that this is used as an Eternity Sign only in Armenia. it does not seem
to me that The Borjgali (a Georgian symbol of the Sun with seven rotating
wings) shown
satai satai at akauri dot com wrote:
I am sure that in this case Armenian does refer to the script
According to definition, script is a collection of letters and other
written signs used to represent textual information in one or more
writing systems. [http://unicode.org/glossary/#S] This
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Michael Everson ever...@evertype.comwrote:
Except that this is used as an Eternity Sign only in Armenia.
This is not correct. Georgian meaning is quite broad and I provided the
most widely accepted one. Other meanings are flow of time and eternity.
(This can be
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote:
I didn't say the symbols WERE an integral part of the Armenian script,
but that they were usually used WITH it.
I commented this case in second part of my reply, but if I somehow offended
you, please, accept my true
satai wrote:
Again, I apologize if I offended you in my reply somehow.
No offense, just trying to keep facts straight.
--
Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell
On 01/19/2012 01:07 PM, Doug Ewell wrote:
Claims that the Unicode-assigned name of a character, script, or block
is biased or racist or prejudiced against a certain group never get
very far with me, I'm afraid.
But wouldn't it be nice to head one off *before* the name is
unchangeable, for a
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