date:20130109

RE: Mark Crispin (1956-2012)

2013-01-09 Thread Tex Texin

Very sad to read this. -Original Message- From: unicore-boun...@unicode.org [mailto:unicore-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Michael Everson Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:58 PM To: unicode Unicode Discussion; unicore UnicoRe Discussion Subject: Mark Crispin (1956-2012) Farewell to

Re: Interoperability is getting better ... What does that mean?

2013-01-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela

2013-01-09 2:55, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: The benefit of doing such a comparison is that we then get to count both the HTML page *plus* all the extra fonts that is included in the romanized Singhala file. Thus, we get a more *real* basis for comparing the relative size of the two pages. Not

Re: Interoperability is getting better ... What does that mean?

2013-01-09 Thread Leif Halvard Silli

Jukka K. Korpela, Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:03:28 +0200: 2013-01-09 2:55, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: The benefit of doing such a comparison is that we then get to count both the HTML page *plus* all the extra fonts that is included in the romanized Singhala file. Thus, we get a more *real* basis

Re: Interoperability is getting better ... What does that mean?

2013-01-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela

2013-01-09 11:57, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: Not sure which fallacy you have identified - see below. I was referring to comparison between an ad hoc 8-but encoding and a Unicode encoding so that you count the sizes font files in first case only. I’m a bit confused with your comparison, which

Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-09 Thread Frédéric Grosshans

Note: this post is better read in a font distinguishing the 2 following characters ɡ U+0261 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G g U+0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G If you follow this link : https://plus.google.com/photos/11730681874106261/albums/5831399570749921169?authkey=COmLzZr3vPmNigE you will

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-09 Thread Michael Everson

On 9 Jan 2013, at 11:39, Frédéric Grosshans frederic.grossh...@gmail.com wrote: Note: this post is better read in a font distinguishing the 2 following characters ɡ U+0261 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G g U+0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G If you follow this link :

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-09 Thread Frédéric Grosshans

Le 09/01/2013 13:32, Michael Everson a écrit : This example is obviously totally different, and too late to have any influence on the encoding, but I think it might interest some reader of this list. I don't see how it would influence the encoding. It's just more evidence of use in a

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-09 Thread Andreas Stötzner

Am 09.01.2013 um 15:56 schrieb Frédéric Grosshans: My point is : in this text, this character is a capital letter which look like a g. Since this text do not make the character distinction between SMALL G and SCRIPT G, and treats them as glyph variants of SMALL G, the character shown here

Re: Interoperability is getting better ... What does that mean?

2013-01-09 Thread Philippe Verdy

2013/1/9 Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi: And, to be fair, Unicode-encoded fonts that contain Sinhala letters tend to be considerably larger than 8-bit ad-hoc encoded fonts. Then again, these days, size does not matter that much, and a downloadable font gets cached, Size does matter when

Re: Is that character *+A7AC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCRIPT G ?

2013-01-09 Thread Frédéric Grosshans

Le 09/01/2013 16:34, Andreas Stötzner a écrit : As far as I know mathematicians do not always constrain themselves to established characters, but tend to invent new ones for their own convenience