Re: preliminary proposal: New Unicode characters for Arabic music half-flat and half-sharp symbols

What happened to the previous proposal? As I recall, there was some good discussion after an email from you back in 2015 < http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2015-m03/0118.html> and Michael Everson offered assistance, but no formal proposal has been submitted to the Documents Register

Complete Definition of Each Supported Script

I just found this assertion in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniscribe: "Microsoft worked with the Unicode Technical Committee to make shaping requirements available in a machine readable format, so a complete definition of each supported script will be included in the Unicode standard and

Re: Choosing the Set of Renderable Strings

On Tue, 15 May 2018 06:04:45 -0800 James Kass via Unicode wrote: > Display behaviour which is script-specific should be handled by the > rendering/shaping engine. Only that which is font-specific should be > handled by the font. That makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately,

Re: preliminary proposal: New Unicode characters for Arabic music half-flat and half-sharp symbols

On 5/15/2018 2:46 PM, Markus Scherer via Unicode wrote: I am proposing the addition of 2 new characters to the Musical Symbols table: - the half-flat sign (lowers a note by a quarter tone) - the half-sharp sign (raises a note by a quarter tone) In an actual proposal, I

Re: preliminary proposal: New Unicode characters for Arabic music half-flat and half-sharp symbols

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Johnny Farraj via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > Dear Unicode list members, > > I wish to get feedback about a new symbol submission proposal. > Just to clarify, this is a discussion list where you may get some useful feedback. This is not where you

Re: Choosing the Set of Renderable Strings

On Tue, 15 May 2018 04:19:42 -0800 James Kass via Unicode wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > wrote: > > > ... One could argue that the three positions require > > different glyphs for SIGN U. Each font would

Re: Choosing the Set of Renderable Strings

On Tue, 15 May 2018 02:18:11 -0800 James Kass via Unicode wrote: > Richard Wordingham replied, > > ＞＞ ...Private Use Area... > ＞ > ＞ That's what the Xishuangbanna News does for final consonants. > > I failed to find a link for their web site, but only spent about an > hour

preliminary proposal: New Unicode characters for Arabic music half-flat and half-sharp symbols

Dear Unicode list members, I wish to get feedback about a new symbol submission proposal. Currently the Miscellaneous Symbols table (2600-26FF) includes the following characters: 266D ♭ MUSIC FLAT SIGN 266F ♯ MUSIC SHARP SIGN while the Musical Symbols table (1D100 - 1D1FF) includes the

Colours - both for emoji and otherwise

Years ago this mailing list had some wonderful long discussions. A similar such discussion may be interesting now on the topic of Colours - both for emoji and otherwise, as recent developments could possibly be leading towards a major change in Unicode. A few days - including a weekend -

Re: Choosing the Set of Renderable Strings

Display behaviour which is script-specific should be handled by the rendering/shaping engine. Only that which is font-specific should be handled by the font. The font's OpenType tables will include pointers to presentation forms which aren't directly encoded, the location and repertoire of which

Re: Choosing the Set of Renderable Strings

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: > ... One could argue that the three positions require > different glyphs for SIGN U. Each font would need its own PUA. Or a consensus. > ... There are several > places in Tai Tham layout where I

Re: Choosing the Set of Renderable Strings

Richard Wordingham replied, ＞＞ ...Private Use Area... ＞ ＞ That's what the Xishuangbanna News does for final consonants. I failed to find a link for their web site, but only spent about an hour and a half searching for it. There is a web site for "Xishuangbanna Daily", but the pages I saw there