On 19/01/2019 01:55, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
On 1/18/2019 2:05 PM, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
On 18/01/2019 20:09, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
Marcel,
about your many detailed *technical* questions about the history of character
properties, I am afraid I have no
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:20:22 -0800
Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
> However, if there's a consensus interpretation of a given character
> the you can't just go in and change it, even if it would make that
> character work "better" for a given circumstance: you simply don't
> know (unless you
On 1/18/2019 2:46 PM, Shawn Steele via
Unicode wrote:
>> That
should not impact all other users out there interested in a
civilized layout.
I’m not sure
that the choice of the word “civilized” adds value to the
conversation.
On 1/18/2019 2:05 PM, Marcel Schneider
via Unicode wrote:
On 18/01/2019 20:09, Asmus Freytag
via Unicode wrote:
Marcel,
about your many detailed *technical* questions about the
history of character
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:44:50 -0500
"J. S. Choi" via Unicode wrote:
> I’m implementing a Unicode names library. I’m confused about loose
> character-name matching, even after rereading The Unicode Standard §
> 4.8, UAX #34 § 4, #44 § 5.9.2 – as well as
>
>> If they are obsolete apps, they don’t use CLDR / ICU, as these are designed
>> for up-to-date and fully localized apps. So one hassle is off the table.
Windows uses CLDR/ICU. Obsolete apps run on Windows. That statement is a
little narrowminded.
>> I didn’t look into these date
On 18/01/2019 23:46, Shawn Steele wrote:
*>> *Keeping these applications outdated has no other benefit than providing a
handy lobbying tool against support of NNBSP.
I believe you’ll find that there are some French banks and other institutions
that depend on such obsolete applications
>> Keeping these applications outdated has no other benefit than providing a
>> handy lobbying tool against support of NNBSP.
I believe you’ll find that there are some French banks and other institutions
that depend on such obsolete applications (unfortunately).
Additionally, I believe you’ll
On 18/01/2019 22:03, Shawn Steele via Unicode wrote:
I've been lurking on this thread a little.
This discussion has gone “all over the place”, however I’d like to point out
that part of the reason NBSP has been used for thousands separators is because
that it exists in all of those legacy
I've been lurking on this thread a little.
This discussion has gone “all over the place”, however I’d like to point out
that part of the reason NBSP has been used for thousands separators is because
that it exists in all of those legacy codepages that were mentioned predating
Unicode.
Whether
On 18/01/2019 19:20, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
On 1/18/2019 7:27 AM, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
Covering existing character sets (National, International and Industry) was _an_ (not
"the") important goal at the time: such coverage was understood as a necessary
(although not
On 18/01/2019 19:02, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
On 1/18/2019 7:27 AM, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
I understand only better why a significant majority of UTC is hating French.
Francophobia is also palpable in Canada, beyond any technical reasons,
especially in the IT
I would full agree and I think Mark puts it really well in the
message below why some of the proposals brandished here are no
longer plain text but "not-so-plain" text.
I think we are better served with a solution that provides some
form of "light" rich text, for
Marcel,
about your many detailed *technical* questions about the history
of character properties, I am afraid I have no specific
recollection.
French is not the only language that uses a space to group
figures. In fact, I grew up with thousands separators being
On 1/18/2019 7:27 AM, Marcel Schneider
via Unicode wrote:
Covering existing
character sets (National, International and Industry)
was an (not "the") important goal at
the time: such
On 1/18/2019 7:27 AM, Marcel Schneider
via Unicode wrote:
I understand only better
why a significant majority of UTC is hating French.
Francophobia is also palpable in Canada, beyond any
technical reasons, especially in the IT
Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
…, since italic fonts generally are narrower than roman).
I remember reading years ago that that was why italic type was invented
in the first place in the fifteenth century, so that more text could be
got into small format books that could conveniently be carried
On 1/17/19 1:27 AM, Martin J. Dürst via Unicode wrote:
This lead to the layering we have now: Case distinctions at the
character level, but style distinctions at the rich text level. Any good
technology has layers, and it makes a lot of sense to keep established
layers unless some serious
On 1/16/19 7:16 AM, Andrew Cunningham via Unicode wrote:
HI Victor, an off list reply. The contents are just random thoughts
sparked by an interesting conversation.
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 22:44, Victor Gaultney via Unicode
mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote:
- It finally, and
On 1/16/19 6:23 AM, Victor Gaultney via Unicode wrote:
Encoding 'begin italic' and 'end italic' would introduce difficulties
when partial strings are moved, etc. But that's no different than with
current punctuation. If you select the second half of a string that
includes an end quote
On 17/01/2019 20:11, 梁海 Liang Hai via Unicode wrote:
[Just a quick note to everyone that, I’ve just subscribed to this public list,
and will look into this ongoing Mongolian-related discussion once I’ve mentally
recovered from this week’s UTC stress. :)]
Welcome to Unicode Public.
Hopefully
On 1/17/19 1:50 PM, Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode wrote:
On a side note, you the site considers visible speech as a
living-script, which surprised be. This information is indeed in the
Wikipedia infobox and implied by its “HMA status” on the Berkeley SEI
page, but the text of the wikipedia
Thanks a lot for this input!
We’ll check this with Deborah Anderson from SEI Berkeley.
The update of the web site to Unicode 12.0 will be an opportunity to make some
corrections.
All the best,
Johannes
> Am 17.01.2019 um 19:50 schrieb Frédéric Grosshans
> :
>
> Thanks for this nice website
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