Re: "textels"

2016-09-16 Thread Christoph Päper
Janusz S. Bień : > > 1. Graphemes, if I understand correctly, are language dependent, … That’s true in linguistic terminology – well, at least within the more popular schools of thought –, but not in technical (i.e. Unicode) jargon.

Re: "textels"

2016-09-16 Thread Janusz S. Bien
Quote/Cytat - Eric Muller (pią, 16 wrz 2016, 17:47:27): On 9/16/2016 8:30 AM, Janusz S. Bien wrote: Quote/Cytat - Eric Muller (pią, 16 wrz 2016, 17:03:54): On 9/16/2016 6:52 AM, Janusz S. Bień wrote: (when working on a corpus of historical

Re: "textels"

2016-09-16 Thread Eric Muller
On 9/16/2016 8:30 AM, Janusz S. Bien wrote: Quote/Cytat - Eric Muller (pią, 16 wrz 2016, 17:03:54): On 9/16/2016 6:52 AM, Janusz S. Bień wrote: (when working on a corpus of historical Polish we noticed some cases where standard Unicode equivalence was not convenient).

Re: "textels"

2016-09-16 Thread Janusz S. Bien
Quote/Cytat - Eric Muller (pią, 16 wrz 2016, 17:03:54): On 9/16/2016 6:52 AM, Janusz S. Bień wrote: (when working on a corpus of historical Polish we noticed some cases where standard Unicode equivalence was not convenient). I'm very interested to know more about

Re: "textels"

2016-09-16 Thread William_J_G Overington
>(I also don't quite understand the semantics of a base character followed by >tag characters, to say the truth.) Page 2 of the following document is where the idea was introduced. http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15145r-add-regional-ind.pdf The document is linked from the following page.

Re: "textels"

2016-09-16 Thread William_J_G Overington
jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15 2016 at 21:27 CEST, e...@gnu.org writes: [...] >> Isn't "grapheme cluster" the definition you are looking for? > I don't think so. Is an example of a textel that would definitely not be a grapheme cluster be when a character is expressed as a BASE

Re: "textels"

2016-09-16 Thread Eric Muller
On 9/16/2016 6:52 AM, Janusz S. Bień wrote: (when working on a corpus of historical Polish we noticed some cases where standard Unicode equivalence was not convenient). I'm very interested to know more about those cases. Thanks, Eric.

Re: "textels"

2016-09-16 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Thu, Sep 15 2016 at 21:56 CEST, jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl writes: [...] > 1. Graphemes, if I understand correctly, are language dependent, textels > are not. > > 2. Textel "ń" means both U+0144 and , so it is a notion > on a higher abstraction level then a grapheme cluster. In other

Re: "textels"

2016-09-16 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:25:53 +0100 (BST) > From: William_J_G Overington > > jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 15 2016 at 21:27 CEST, e...@gnu.org writes: > > [...] > > >> Isn't "grapheme cluster" the definition you are looking for? > > > I don't