On 3 Jun 2015, at 11:24 pm, David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com wrote:
Chris wrote:
There is no way to compare 2 HTML elements and know they are talking about
the same character
That's because character identity is a hard problem. Is the emoji TIGER the
same as TONY THE TIGER or as
I don’t use old software, I use up to date versions of everything on a Mac.
Very standard setup.
There’s a lot of links there. Maybe they do work in PDFs, but they certainly
don’t work in the browser, and they don’t work when I click the txt files.
Basically what you’re saying is that PDFs
On 6/3/2015 5:17 PM, John wrote:
so what?
There should be a standard way to put custom characters anywhere that
characters belong and have things “just work”.
Well, that's the rub, isn't it?
We (in IT) are still working pretty dang hard on the simpler problem, to
wit:
There
So what you’re saying is that the current situation where you see an empty
square □ for unknown characters is better than seeing something useful?
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Chris
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote:
Chris idou747 at gmail dot com wrote:
Right now, what happens if you
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:46 PM Chris idou...@gmail.com wrote:
I personally think emoji should have one, single definitive representation
for this exact reason.
Then you want an image. I don't see what's hard about that.
The community interested in tony the tiger can make decisions like
Yep, I clicked on your document and saw an empty square where your character
should be.
F = FAIL.
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Chris
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:30 PM, William_J_G Overington
wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote:
Private Use Area in Use (from Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag
characters))
Private Use Area in Use (from Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag
characters))
That's not agreed upon. I'd say that the general agreement is that the
private ranges are of limited usefulness for some very limited use cases
(such as designing encodings for new scripts).
They
Le 02/06/2015 21:38, Janusz S. Bień a
écrit :
I've just noticed the comment quoted in the subject in the description
of
'LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED DELTA' (U+018D)
and I'm intrigued how it got into the standard.
If you look in the NamesList.txt files
Compression is even more important today on mobile networks: mobile apps
are very verbose over the net, and you can easily pay the extra volume. In
addition, mobile networks are frequently much slower than what they are
advertized, even if you pay the extra subscription to get 3G/4G, you depend
on
Earlier in this thread, on 2 June 2015, I wrote as follows:
A mechanism to be able to use the method to define a glyph linked to a
Unicode code point would be a useful facility to add for use in a situation
where the glyph is for a regular Unicode character.
I have now thought of a mechanism
Chris wrote:
There is no way to compare 2 HTML elements and know they are talking
about the same character
That's because character identity is a hard problem. Is the emoji TIGER the
same as TONY THE TIGER or as TONY THE TIGER GIVING THE VICTORY SIGN?
Note that copy-pasting from a PDF to another document is very tricky, the
PDF format requires that embedded fonts use precise glyph naming
conventions to map glyphs back to characters, otherwise the Unicode
characters sequences associated to a glyph (or multiple glyphs if they are
ligatured or in
This possibly fails because William possibly forgot to embed his font in
the document itself (or Serif PagePlus forgets to do it when it creates the
PDF document, and refuses to embed glyphs from the font that are bound to
Unicode PUAs when it creates the embeded font). However no such problem
Chris idou747 at gmail dot com wrote:
Right now, what happens if you have a domain or locale requirement for
a special character?
That's what the PUA is for. Assign a PUA code point to your special
character, create a font which implements the PUA character, create a
brief private agreement
Chris idou747 at gmail dot com wrote:
Why shouldn’t there be a standard way to go out on the net and find
the canonical glyph for a code?
Because there isn't one. Glyphs are suggestions, meant to convey the
identity of the character.
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Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO
2015-06-04 2:59 GMT+02:00 David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com:
You can’t iterate over compressed bits. You can’t process them.
Why not? In any language I know of that has iterators, there would be no
problem writing one that iterates over compressed input. If you need to
mutate them, that is
Chris John idou747 at gmail dot com wrote:
So what you’re saying is that the current situation where you see an
empty square □ for unknown characters is better than seeing something
useful?
No, that's why you include a reference to the font in the private
agreement, so that interested
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