On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:38 PM Markus Scherer markus@gmail.com wrote:
don’t is a contraction of two words, it is not one word.
But as he points out, it's not a contraction of don and t; it is, at best,
a contraction of do and n't. It's eliding, not punctuating. In the
comments, he also
I think this stuff could be relatively easy to define and standardise. You
could basically define the entire technology in 1 A4 document. People have
just got to want it badly enough to agree on it, and give it the imprimatur
of the consortium.
Then define it. It doesn't need Unicode
Hyphens generally make multiple words into one anyway. There's not really
multiple hyphens the way there's separate quotes and apostrophes.
On 7:01pm, Thu, Jun 4, 2015 Leo Broukhis l...@mailcom.com wrote:
Along the same lines, we might need a MODIFIER LETTER HYPHEN, because, for
example, the
Along the same lines, we might need a MODIFIER LETTER HYPHEN, because, for
example, the work ack-ack isn't decomposable into words, or even morphemes,
ack and ack.
Leo
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:31 PM, David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:38 PM Markus Scherer
Looks all wrong to me.
don’t is a contraction of two words, it is not one word.
English is taught as that squiggle being punctuation, not a letter.
(Unlike, say, the Hawaiʻian ʻOkina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOkina.)
You can't use simple regular expressions to find word boundaries.
An interesting argument for U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE as English
apostrophe :
https://tedclancy.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/which-unicode-character-should-represent-the-english-apostrophe-and-why-the-unicode-committee-is-very-wrong/
Frédéric
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Chris idou...@gmail.com wrote:
Characters are 64 bit. 32 bits are stripped off as the “character set
provider ID”. That is sent to one of many canonical servers akin to DNS
servers to find the URL owner of those characters. At that location you’d
find a
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:09 AM John idou...@gmail.com wrote:
Mostly just a matter of upgrading the character size.
Which totally blows any concern with text size out of the water. Using 30
bytes to define certain very rare characters and 1 byte to define ASCII is
way better then using 8 bytes
Well, that's the rub, isn't it?
We (in IT) are still working pretty dang hard on the simpler problem, to wit:
There should be a way to put standard characters anywhere that characters
belong
and have things just work.
And even *that* is a hard problem that has taken over 25 years --
On 6/4/2015 1:46 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
I thought that I would mention it, though I cannot quite at the moment
understand the issue.
I'm long past where I'm sure I understand what the issue is.
:)
A./
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David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:09 AM John idou...@gmail.com wrote:
Mostly just a matter of upgrading the character size.
Which totally blows any concern with text size out of the water.
Using 30 bytes to define
No, that's why you include a reference to the font in the private agreement,
so that interested parties can install it and see the special character(s).
People with their iphones and ipads and so forth don’t want to have “private
agreements”, they don’t want to “install character sets”. The
On 4 Jun 2015, at 10:59 am, David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:46 PM Chris idou...@gmail.com
mailto:idou...@gmail.com wrote:
I personally think emoji should have one, single definitive representation
for this exact reason.
Then you want an image. I
Chris expressed an idea, hypothetically starting:
Characters are 64 bit.
The following posts might be helpful.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m08/0277.html
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m08/0307.html
For 64 bits, or somewhere in that region, maybe just a few
It occurs to me that the existing DNS system was designed to map 32bit numbers
to domain names. So a hypothetical UTF64 format, with 32 bits of provider ID
could be co-opted into the DNS system under a different record domain (Similar
to how there is A records, and MX records, there could be
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