Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-05-30 10:47 GMT+02:00 William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com : Responding to Doug Ewell: I think this cuts to the heart of what people have been trying to say all along. Historically, Unicode was not meant to be the means by which brand new ideas are run up the proverbial

RE: Bunny hill symbol, used in America for signaling ski pistes for novices

2015-05-30 Thread Shawn Steele
I’m really curious to see one of these signs. Is it a regional thing? From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Leonardo Boiko Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 1:02 PM To: Philippe Verdy Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion Subject: Re: Bunny hill symbol, used in America for

Re: Re: Bunny hill symbol, used in America for signaling ski pistes for novices

2015-05-30 Thread Philippe Verdy
But observations show that the vertical stacking is not universal. Horizontal stacking is also used in direction signs. My opinion is that they are just two separate diamonds and not a single symbol. Quite equivalent to the situation with the classification of hotels with stars (generally aligned

RE: Re: Bunny hill symbol, used in America for signaling ski pistes for novices

2015-05-30 Thread Shawn Steele
I guess it depends on what you’re representing. If it is the concept of “double black”, then maybe a separate symbol and the “font” or other selectors determine if it’s vertically or horizontally rendered. From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Verdy Sent:

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread Doug Ewell
Note: Everything below is my personal opinion and does not represent any official Unicode Consortium or UTC position. William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com wrote: Historically, Unicode was not meant to be the means by which brand new ideas are run up the proverbial

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread David Starner
I would say that a system would conform with Unicode in having yellow heart red (in a non-monochrome font) as well as if it made it a cross. Either way it's violating character identity. I'd say that being monochromatic is now like being monospaced; it's suboptimal for a Unicode implementation,

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread William_J_G Overington
Responding to Leo Broukhis: A more common occurrence is the need to include a non-standard character in a text message, be it a ski piste symbol or an obscure CJK ideogram. Have you thought of embedding TrueType in Unicode? Not congruently so, yet, in effect, yes, as I have considered

Re: Some questions about Unicode's CJK Unified Ideograph

2015-05-30 Thread Andrew West
On 30 May 2015 at 02:50, Ken Whistler kenwhist...@att.net wrote: 1. I have seen a chinese character ⿰言亜 from a Vietnamese dictionary NHAT DUNG THUONG DAM DICTIONARY Extension F is harder to track down, because it has not yet been approved by the UTC, and comes in two pieces, with different

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread William_J_G Overington
Responding to Doug Ewell: I think this cuts to the heart of what people have been trying to say all along. Historically, Unicode was not meant to be the means by which brand new ideas are run up the proverbial flagpole to see if they will gain traction. History is interesting and can be a

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread John
Hmm, these once entities of which you speak, do they require javascript? Because I'm not sure what we are looking for here is static documents requiring a full programming language. But let's say for a moment that html5 can, or could do the job here. Then to make the dream come true that