Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:51:42 -0700 Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote: > An explicitly stated goal of the new orthography was to enable typing > Kazakh on a "standard keyboard," meaning an English-language one. > Nazarbayev may ultimately be persuaded to embrace ASCII digraphs, >

RE: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

Philippe Verdy wrote: > The best they should have done is instead keeping their existing > keyboard layout, continaing both the Cyrillic letters and Latin QWERTY > printed on them, but operating in two modes (depending on OS > preferences) to invert the two layouts but without changing the >

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 03:22:37 +0800 Phake Nick via Unicode wrote: > >I found the Windows 'US International' keyboard layout highly > >intuitive for accented Latin-1 characters. > How common is the US International keyboard in real life..? I thought it was two copies per

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

The best they should have done is instead keeping their existing keyboard layout, continaing both the Cyrillic letters and Latin QWERTY printed on them, but operating in two modes (depending on OS preferences) to invert the two layouts but without changing the keystrokes. It would just have needed

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:55 AM Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote: > I think it's so cute that some of us think we can advise Nazarbayev on > whether to use straight or curly apostrophes or accents or x's or > whatever. Like he would listen to a bunch of Western technocrats. >

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

Doug Ewell wrote, "I think it's so cute that some of us think we can advise Nazarbayev on whether to use straight or curly apostrophes or accents or x's or whatever. Like he would listen to a bunch of Western technocrats." Heh. We are offering sound advice. If people fail to heed it, that's

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

>I found the Windows 'US International' keyboard layout highly intuitive >for accented Latin-1 characters. How common is the US International keyboard in real life..? Users would still need to manually add them in Windows, or in other computing tools vendors would need to add support for "US

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

I think it's so cute that some of us think we can advise Nazarbayev on whether to use straight or curly apostrophes or accents or x's or whatever. Like he would listen to a bunch of Western technocrats. An explicitly stated goal of the new orthography was to enable typing Kazakh on a "standard

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

Ukainian should follow the romanisation model used by Serbian which is clear for them and coherent with other uses in Eastern Europe: carons for modified consonnants, and acute accents (sometimes double acute in Hungarian) for vowels. Even if they want support with a legacy 8-bit charset, ISO

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

James Kass: > > (bottle, east,skier, crucial,cherry) > s'i's'a, s'yg'ys, s'an'g'ys'y, s'es'u's'i, s'i'i'e > sxixsxa, sxygxys, sxanxgxysxy, sxesxuxsxi, sxixixe > s̈ïs̈a,s̈yg̈ys, s̈an̈g̈ys̈y, s̈es̈üs̈i, s̈ïïe > śíśa,śyǵys, śańǵyśy, śeśúśi,

Re: superscripts & subscripts for science/mathematics?

. . . and do Russians still do mathematics? I guess not, since there is no Cyrillic counterpart to the AMS extensions also, chemists sometimes like to put a superscript over a subscript will that still have to be done using rich text? or maybe we need another extension . . . ? /phil

Re: superscripts & subscripts for science/mathematics?

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 07:43:34PM -0800, David Melik via Unicode wrote: > ‘The intended use was to allow chemical and algebra formulas to be written > without > markup’--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_superscripts. > Unless wrong, apart from disagreement, it's clear