Re: Support for Latin ligature IJ (was another thread)

2016-03-30 Thread Martin J. Dürst
On 2016/03/31 06:42, Philippe Verdy wrote: The use of "ÿ" in Dutch should also be considered as an orthographic fault, and it should be corrected into "ij" (to solve the capitalization problem), but there are occurences in Dutch of "ÿ" which is correct (notably in borrowed French toponyms such

Re: Support for Latin ligature IJ

2016-03-30 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 23:42:20 +0200, Philippe Verdy wrote: > Note that the single letter "ij" in Dutch is often undistinctable from "ÿ", > which is also commonly found as a convenient substitute in many old documents > not encoded with Unicode but with ISO8859-1 : this has a caveat because the

Re: UTC makes the Colbert show

2016-03-30 Thread Karl Williamson
On 03/30/2016 11:54 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Jennifer 8. Lee > wrote: I thought his "elf exposing self in park" was an amazing (and accurate) facial expression. ​Right! How does he make his cheeks

Re: Support for Latin ligature IJ (was another thread)

2016-03-30 Thread Philippe Verdy
Note that the single letter "ij" in Dutch is often undistinctable from "ÿ", which is also commonly found as a convenient substitute in many old documents not encoded with Unicode but with ISO8859-1 : this has a caveat because the capitalization would produce "Y" (in ISO8859-1), possibly followed by

Re: Support for Latin ligature IJ (was another thread)

2016-03-30 Thread Philippe Verdy
In my opinion, the Dutch IJ/ij "ligature" is not really a ligature and should be treated exactly like Æ/æ or Œ/œ as a plain single letter. The use of IJ/ij (encoded as separate letters) is a actually an orthographic fault, that a ligature will not help resolve. Thanks, the decomposition of the "IJ"

Support for Latin ligature IJ (was another thread)

2016-03-30 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:14:59 +0100, Kent Karlsson wrote [in the thread “Re: Swapcase for Titlecase characters”]: […] > I still think ij should have the "soft-dotted" property (and that > that property is finally implemented properly in various systems...). [Refers to: Re: Case for letters j

Re: UTC makes the Colbert show

2016-03-30 Thread Philippe Verdy
2016-03-30 20:24 GMT+02:00 Doug Ewell : > > Fredrik passed this on: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfZE56E0Uts ; skip ahead to 1:30. > > This is great! Now all of America knows what Unicode is really all > about. > All of America really? Do they all look at the same TV

RE: UTC makes the Colbert show

2016-03-30 Thread Shawn Steele
He has suggestions for process improvements as well… From: Unicore [mailto:unicore-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Jennifer 8. Lee Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 10:37 AM To: Mark Davis ☕️ Cc: UTC ; Unicode Public Subject: Re: UTC

Re: UTC makes the Colbert show

2016-03-30 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Jennifer 8. Lee wrote: > I thought his "elf exposing self in park" was an amazing (and accurate) > facial expression. > ​Right! How does he make his cheeks do that!?!​ Mark

Re: NamesList.txt as data source

2016-03-30 Thread Janusz S. Bien
Quote/Cytat - Andrew West (Tue 29 Mar 2016 06:15:15 PM CEST): On 29 March 2016 at 16:19, Janusz S. Bień wrote: > All documents submitted to WG2 and to L2 by individuals are copyright > of the author(s) of the document. Documents do not need to

UTC makes the Colbert show

2016-03-30 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
Fredrik passed this on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfZE56E0Uts ; skip ahead to 1:30. Mark