Re: String Ranges in Unicode Sets

2015-09-08 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
Mark *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Richard Wordingham < richard.wording...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:54:16 +0200 > Mark Davis ☕️ wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Richard

Re: String Ranges in Unicode Sets

2015-09-08 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
Mark, it is implied the String Range formulation is a compact form. Can you prove that it doesn't create any set of strings that can't be specified in other ways (other than full enumeration of the strings?). What about set operations on sets with

Re: String Ranges in Unicode Sets

2015-09-08 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: > it is implied the String Range formulation is a compact form. > > Can you prove that it doesn't create any set of strings that can't be > specified in other ways (other than full enumeration of the strings?). >

Re: [RFC] Discussion about chances of some characters to be added in Unicode

2015-09-08 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le 07/09/2015 20:18, Steven R. Loomis a écrit : Hello! The power symbol was already accepted, see http://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html And the proposal for the power symbol(s) is here http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14009r-power-symbol.pdf . Frédéric

Re: [RFC] Discussion about chances of some characters to be added in Unicode

2015-09-08 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le 07/09/2015 19:49, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov a écrit : Hello there! First of all, I'm sorry in advance, if my message's tone is not suitable for that mail list. Next, I'd like to discuss the chances of some characters to be added in Unicode at all. Most of all I interested about: 1)

Re: String Ranges in Unicode Sets

2015-09-08 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:19:03 -0700 "Doug Ewell" wrote: > Mark Davis ️ wrote: > > >> TUS 8.0 Chapter 3 C6: "A process shall not assume that the > >> interpretations of two canonical-equivalent character sequences are > >> distinct." > > > > ​A compiler will take source code

Re: String Ranges in Unicode Sets

2015-09-08 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 13:46:48 +0200 Mark Davis ☕️ wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Asmus Freytag (t) > wrote: > > What about set operations on sets with string ranges? > ​Again, the range notation is just a formatting issue. Anything you >

Re: String Ranges in Unicode Sets

2015-09-08 Thread Doug Ewell
Mark Davis ️ wrote: >> TUS 8.0 Chapter 3 C6: "A process shall not assume that the >> interpretations of two canonical-equivalent character sequences are >> distinct." > > ​A compiler will take source code containing String x="á"; and compile > it to a certain binary. If that same source code is

Re: Technical or encoding sub mailing list ?

2015-09-08 Thread William_J_G Overington
Asmus Freytag wrote as follows: > There is a small set of people who like to hi-jack the list for their personal agendas, even after being told that the audience on the list has no interest. Some compound the issue by letting loose an inordinate number of posts in a short time, or