Re: IDC's versus Egyptian format controls

2018-02-21 Thread Martin J. Dürst via Unicode
On 2018/02/17 08:25, James Kass via Unicode wrote: Some people studying Han characters use the IDCs to illustrate the ideographs and their components for various purposes. Well, as far as I understand, this was their original (and is still their main) purpose. For example: U-0002A8B8 ꢸ

Re: Coloured Characters (was: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?)

2018-02-21 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:04:34 +0100 Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > On the opposite, colored in Arabic or hieroglyph texts is a a useful > emphasize and sometimes semantically significant (some rare old > scripts also used dictinctive colors): we are in a case similar to

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

2018-02-21 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 2/21/2018 11:45 AM, David Starner via Unicode wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 9:40 AM John W Kennedy via Unicode wrote: “Curmudgeonly” is a perfectly good English

Re: Coloured Characters (was: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?)

2018-02-21 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
I'm not speaking about hieroglyphs, even if they are perfectly readable in monochrome on monuments. I was just saying that colorful **emojis** are just a nuisance and colors in them do not add any semantic value (except possibly flags, skin tones were added only to avoid a never-ending battle on

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

2018-02-21 Thread Christoph Päper via Unicode
Philippe Verdy: > > I even hope that there will be a setting in all browsers, OS'es, mobiles, > and apps to refuse any colorful rendering, and just render them as > monochromatic symbols. In summary, COMPLETETY DISABLE the colorful > extensions of OpenType made for them. See

Re: Suggestions?

2018-02-21 Thread David Starner via Unicode
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 7:55 AM Jeb Eldridge via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > Where can I post suggestions and feedback for Unicode? > Here is as good as any place. There are specific places for a few specific things, but likely if you do have something that's likely to get changed,

Coloured Characters (was: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?)

2018-02-21 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:28:14 +0100 Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > I even hope that there will be a setting in all browsers, OS'es, > mobiles, and apps to refuse any colorful rendering, and just render > them as monochromatic symbols. In summary, COMPLETETY DISABLE the >

Re: Suggestions?

2018-02-21 Thread James Kass via Unicode
http://www.unicode.org/faq/faq_on_faqs.html#34

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

2018-02-21 Thread David Starner via Unicode
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 9:40 AM John W Kennedy via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > “Curmudgeonly” is a perfectly good English word attested back to 1590. > Curmudgeony may be identified as misspelled by Google, but it's got a bit of usage dating back a hundred years. Wiktionary's entry

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

2018-02-21 Thread Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode
On 2/21/2018 9:23 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote: 2018-02-21 18:10 GMT+01:00 Asmus Freytag via Unicode >: Feeling a bit curmudgeony, are we, today? :-) Don't know what it means, never heard that word, not found in dictionaries. Probably alocalUS

Re: Suggestions?

2018-02-21 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
The Unicode website has a section for feedback in its menu, but in separate projects for TUS and for CLDR. There are also feedbacks requested for every proposed amendment to the standard, annexes, and data. First search the relevant topic on the website, then look at the side bar if there's no

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

2018-02-21 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
2018-02-21 18:10 GMT+01:00 Asmus Freytag via Unicode : > Feeling a bit curmudgeony, are we, today? :-) > Don't know what it means, never heard that word, not found in dictionaries. Probably a local US jargon or typo in your strange word.

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

2018-02-21 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 2/21/2018 7:28 AM, Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: 2018-02-21 15:51 GMT+01:00 Khaled Hosny : Now if he had used an emoji that shows the mode of the text it would

Re: Suggestions?

2018-02-21 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 2/21/2018 7:23 AM, Jeb Eldridge via Unicode wrote:     Where can I post suggestions and feedback for Unicode?     What kinds of suggestions / what kind of feedback

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

2018-02-21 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
2018-02-21 15:51 GMT+01:00 Khaled Hosny : > Now if he had used an emoji that shows the mode of the text it would > have been a lot more obvious, but we already established that the world > does not need emoji. > No, I don't need emojis. Any emoji means all or nothing, they