Re: Long-term archiving of electronic text documents

2013-01-29 Thread Philippe Verdy
2013/1/29 Jim Breen jimbr...@gmail.com: William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: The idea is that there would be an additional UTF format, perhaps UTF-64, so that each character would be expressed in UTF-64 notation using 64 bits, thus providing error checking and correction

Re: Old Cyrillic Yest

2013-01-29 Thread QSJN 4 UKR
2013/1/29 QSJN 4 UKR qsjn4...@gmail.com I found something terrible. Sorry, I did not make a photo. That is a modern book with [http://litopys.org.ua/smotrgram/sm11.htm]-this text of Meletius Smotrytsky Grammar, but a reprint, not a faximile like I refer to. Here are the rules about using

Re: Old Cyrillic Yest

2013-01-29 Thread QSJN 4 UKR
I found something terrible. Sorry, I did not make a photo. That is a modern book with [http://litopys.org.ua/smotrgram/sm11.htm]-this text of Meletius Smotrytsky Grammar, but a reprint, not a faximile like I refer to. Here are the rules about using BROAD YEST and NARROW YEST. Modern publisher used

Re: Case-folding dotted i

2013-01-29 Thread Eric Muller
On 1/24/2013 2:15 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote: If text is going to be processed, i+dot is wrong for Turkish, as the Unicode casing rules for Turkish will capitalise it to I+dot+dot, which should display with two dots. If you're going to use an explicit dot, I'd have said U+0131, U+0307 would be

Re: Public Review Issue 232 Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (Copy of email sent to the list; also posted by me to unicode feedback/public review issue-- but this has not yet po

2013-01-29 Thread Stephan Stiller
I don't think dashes should be mirrored at all however. (Many of my dashes -- for example these -- are quite symmetrical; but others are not -- I sometimes have a closing dash and sometimes not; but Emily Dickinson is really the expert on the use of the dash:

Re: Public Review Issue 232 Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (Copy of email sent to the list; also posted by me to unicode feedback/public review issue-- but this has not yet po

2013-01-29 Thread Stephan Stiller
I sometimes have a closing dash and sometimes not /And/ let's not forget that one often has what is semantically a pair of parenthetical dashes, either the opening or the closing component of which is eaten up by the beginning or the end of the sentence, resp. These punctuation rules are