On 27 August 2011 03:52, Benjamin M Scarborough
benjamin.scarboro...@utdallas.edu wrote:
Are name aliases exempted from the normal character naming conventions? I ask
because four of the entries have words that begin with numbers.
008E;SINGLE-SHIFT 2;control
008F;SINGLE-SHIFT 3;control
On 21 August 2011 02:14, Richard Wordingham
richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:03:41 -0700
Ken Whistler k...@sybase.com wrote:
O.k., so apparently we have awhile to go before we have to start
worrying about the Y2K or IPv4 problem for Unicode. Call me again in
the
On 22 August 2011 12:51, Shriramana Sharma samj...@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/22/2011 03:05 PM, Andrew West wrote:
Can anyone think of a way to extend UTF-16 without adding new
surrogates or inventing a new general category?
Why would anyone *need* to do so? UTF-16 can represent all codepoints
On 13 August 2011 18:48, Sean Leonard lists+unic...@seantek.com wrote:
The Unicode code points U+ through U+00FF share the equivalent values
from the ASCII Standard, ISO 646, ISO 6429, and ISO 8859-1. In many contexts,
it is desirable to display all of these code points/characters
On 16 August 2011 02:59, Richard Wordingham
richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote:
All I've got to go on is the penultimate sentence in TUS 6.0 Section
10.2 - 'Rarely, stacks are seen that contain more than one such
consonant-vowel combination in a vertical arrangement'.
On 16 August 2011 18:19, Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
These stacks are highly unusual and are considered beyond the scope
of plain text rendering. They may be handled by higher-level
mechanisms.
The question is: have any such mechanisms been defined and deployed by
anyone?
In
On 12 August 2011 07:13, Janusz S. Bień jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl wrote:
Where the details of the proposed characters are available?
Links to the latest proposals for individual scripts are given on the
Unicode roadmap pages:
http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/
If you want to find out about proposals
On 15 July 2011 09:08, Karl Pentzlin karl-pentz...@acssoft.de wrote:
In supporting this, there is now a quick survey of symbol fonts regularly
delivered with computers
manufactured by Apple:
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4127.pdf
I am agnostic on all the symbols, but would say a
On 15 July 2011 13:40, Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com wrote:
I think that having encoded symbols for control characters (which we
already have for some of them) is no bad thing, and the argument
about too many characters is not compelling, as there are only some
dozens of these
On 14 July 2011 00:03, announceme...@unicode.org wrote:
The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and
comment. Details are on the following web page:
PRI #200Draft UTR #49: Unicode Character Categories
This document presents an approach to the
On 24 October 2010 14:45, Peter Constable peter...@microsoft.com wrote:
And I'd advise people to upgrade from Windows XP.
The snide remark seems a little uncalled for. There are many reasons
why people cannot or will not upgrade from XP, and I was simply
pointing out an issue that may affect
On 13 October 2010 21:41, Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 October 2010 17:48, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote:
At the risk of spreading unsubstantiated FUD, I experienced system
crashes (BSOD) twice in one day while trying to configure the
composite-font feature in BabelPad
On 24 October 2010 13:56, Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote:
However, further testing has indicated that standard Windows
applications such as Notepad may blue screen crash on some systems
when attempting to render U+1F5FD (Statue of Liberty, but replaced by
a glyph for the Angel
On 13 October 2010 17:48, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote:
Incidentally, many of the new symbols in Unicode 6 are available in
the Symbola font from George Douros, and they can be seen in Firefox:
http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
At the risk of spreading unsubstantiated FUD, I experienced
2010/10/12 Janusz S. Bień jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl:
The newly finalized Unicode Version 6.0 adds 2,088 characters,
What is the current total? Are other statistic informations available
somewhere?
However it does not provide the precise answer to my primary question,
which is not purely
On 29 September 2010 10:43, William_J_G Overington
wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote:
I am designing a symbol with the intention that it can be used in pie crusts
for gluten-free pies.
My question is this please. Does anyone know if this symbol or anything
similar to it in design is in use
On 9 August 2010 15:18, Otto Stolz otto.st...@uni-konstanz.de wrote:
We all know why is good to have U+02BC separated from U+2019,
Which one is recommended, when transliterating, as the Latin equvalent
of the Cyrillic letter Soft Sign (044C)?
I believe it is
U+02B9 MODIFIER LETTER PRIME
On 6 August 2010 05:14, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote:
What makes this troublesome for me is that, on the one hand, there are the
perfectly ordinary-looking 0 through 8, and on the other hand there are the
invented digits for 9 and 11 through 15, and then in the middle there's this
On 6 August 2010 11:03, Kent Karlsson kent.karlsso...@telia.com wrote:
Den 2010-08-06 11.02, skrev Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com:
Looking at the examples shown on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Nystrom, it seems to me that
0-8 are ordinary digits, and the symbols for 9 through 15
On 4 August 2010 09:19, William_J_G Overington
wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote:
Answering the two questions below on the assumption that s-VS1 0073
FE00 were to be defined as a variation sequence for long s in all
type styles, and without giving any opinion on the merits or otherwise
of Karl's
On 31 July 2010 08:54, William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote:
I wonder how long all of the balloting will take and how long will be idle
time between ballots and meetings.
The standardization process and balloting regulations that govern
ISO/IEC 10646 are set out in Part 1 of
On 28 July 2010 18:41, Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com wrote:
Contextual rendering is getting to be more common thanks to adoption of
OpenType features. For example, both MS Publisher 2010 and MS Word 2010
support various contextually dependent OpenType features at the user's
On 28 July 2010 22:09, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
You've not understood what I wanted to say.
Maybe if you said less people would understand more .
I don't know how much free time you must have on your hands to write
hundreds of lines in reply to almost every message on this list
On 17 June 2010 06:51, Marc Durdin marc.dur...@tavultesoft.com wrote:
I'd love to see that in Javascript. Of course then you need to know if it
will shape correctly as well for it to be useful to the end user. Dotted
circles are only marginally better than square boxes. And that's a much
On 9 June 2010 20:42, John Dlugosz jdlug...@tradestation.com wrote:
What about the special check-writing form of two used in China? Is that
merely a different font, or logically a different logogram used for a
distinct purpose?
The latter.
How about the radio/PA-speak alternatives for
On 2 June 2010 10:51, William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote:
I know of no reason to think that a person skilled in the art would be
unable to write an iPad app to receive a program written in the portable
interpretable object code arriving within a Unicode text message and
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