Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
|glibc is not more borken and any other C library implementing toupper and
|tolower from the legacy ctype standard library. These are old APIs that
|are just widely used and still have valid contexts were they are simple and
|safe to use. But they are
Philippe Verdy verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote:
glibc is not more borken and any other C library implementing toupper
and tolower from the legacy ctype standard library. These are old
APIs that are just widely used and still have valid contexts were they
are simple and safe to use.
Successors to convert strings instead of just isolated characters (sorry,
they are NOT what we need to handle texts, they are not even equivalent
to Unicode characters, they are just code units, most often 8-bit with
char or 16-bit only with wchar_t !) already exist in all C libraries
(including
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12321-n4342-signwriting.pdf
That should give you some ideas about possible alternative approaches
for the material you are dealing with.
--Ken
Could the characters SWR2 to SWR8 be applied to chess symbols or should
new rotation modifiers be created
The equivalent of strtolower() and strtoupper() is implemented in all C
libraries I know (yes, including glibc) and I have worked with on various
OSes (and since very long!), even if their names change (because of the
unfortunate lack of standardization about their interaction with C locales).
Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
|Successors to convert strings instead of just isolated characters (sorry,
|they are NOT what we need to handle texts, they are not even equivalent
|to Unicode characters, they are just code units, most often 8-bit with
|char or 16-bit only with wchar_t
Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
|The standard C++ string package could have then used this standard
|internally in the methods exposed in its API. I cannot understand this
|simple effort was never done on such basic functionality needed and used in
|almost all softwares and OSes.
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 02:39:58PM -0800, Garth Wallace wrote:
I'm leaning towards turned, left rotated, and right rotated for
the cardinal orientations,
…
Please keep in mind that left/right are especially bad terms to
describe rotations. When you rotate the
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 06:30:37PM +, Whistler, Ken wrote:
Could the characters SWR2 to SWR8 be applied to chess symbols or should
new rotation modifiers be created for them?
They aren't currently defined to do so -- and there is certainly a danger in
opening up the applicability to
Oups, I forgot to update the subject, AND made a misprint
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 02:01:09PM -0800, I wrote:
See, for example, the Mr Potato Head font
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2014-m09/0003.html
; using the same principles, one could encode most (all?) of the hand
Le 10/11/14 22:36, Ilya Zakharevich a écrit :
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 02:39:58PM -0800, Garth Wallace wrote:
I'm leaning towards turned, left rotated, and right rotated for
the cardinal orientations,
…
Please keep in mind that left/right are especially bad
Le 11/11/14 00:43, Jean-François Colson a écrit :
Le 10/11/14 22:36, Ilya Zakharevich a écrit :
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 02:39:58PM -0800, Garth Wallace wrote:
I'm leaning towards turned, left rotated, and right rotated for
the cardinal orientations,
…
Please
Look at this picture:
http://www.permisecole.com/code-route/priorites/faux-carrefour-a-sens-giratoire.jpg
Imagine you sit in this car and you want to turn RIGHT. What will you
do? Will you turn the driving wheel clockwise or counterclockwise?
And now imagine that you are motoring in a 1904
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:43:05AM +0100, Jean-François Colson wrote:
(I believe that people associate left ↔ counterclockwise etc only
because for many shapes, visually, the bottom is just a pedestal
for the top. So you “grab” the shape “on top”.]
Look at this picture:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Whistler, Ken ken.whist...@sap.com wrote:
Seriously, I think that Ilya's point is well-taken. Although in English
there is a strong association of the phrase turn to the right with
clockwise motion for control devices which rotate, if you take the
phrase out of
WIDDERSHINS is shorter then
COUNTERCLOCKWISE, but is not exactly a common term, especially in
technical English.
Aye, but laddie, then we'd have to use DEASIL for CLOCKWISE!
And we'd have wiccans after us to spell it DEOSIL instead. ;-)
--Ken
Might also be useful that the primary purpose of the character names is to
provide unique, reference identifiers that should be reasonably reflective of
the character identity. But they don't need to guarantee unambiguous
understanding of the character identity absent of any additional
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