Re: mildly OT from bidi - curious email

2019-02-06 Thread Arthur Reutenauer via Unicode
On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 02:30:24PM +, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote: > So far, so common. The curious thing is that the (entirely > ASCII) company name was enclosed in a left-to-right direction, thus: > > Subject: Your Aaa Ltd receipt [#-] > > where and are the

Re: A last missing link for interoperable representation

2019-01-10 Thread Arthur Reutenauer via Unicode
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 09:06:26AM +, James Kass via Unicode wrote: > The unintended usage of math alphanumerics in the real world is fairly > widespread, at least in screen names. On this topic, I was just pointed to https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1083073242330361856

Re: CLDR

2018-09-03 Thread Arthur Reutenauer via Unicode
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 09:45:38AM +0200, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode wrote: > plmp = Federal Capital Territory(???) = Pomerania (Latin/English name of > Pomorze) transliterated into the Greek alphabet (and something in > Arabic). This must be a mistake (a strange copy-paste side effect?).

Re: Diacritic marks in parentheses

2018-07-27 Thread Arthur Reutenauer via Unicode
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 03:41:47PM -0700, Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode wrote: > Ein⁽ᵉ⁾ A⁽¨⁾rzt⁽ⁱⁿ⁾ hat eine⁽ⁿ⁾ Studenti⁽ᵉ⁾n gesehen. It doesn’t actually look that bad! Although I’d like to amend the end to “eine⁽ⁿ⁾ Student⁽ⁱ´ᵉ⁾ⁿ gesehen”. Best, Arthur

Re: Uppercase ß

2018-05-29 Thread Arthur Reutenauer via Unicode
> The main point is what users of ẞ and ß would think, and Unicode to adjust > accordingly. Since users of ß would think that in the vast majority of cases, it ought to be uppercased to SS, I think you’re missing the main point. Arthur

Re: Uppercase ß

2018-05-29 Thread Arthur Reutenauer via Unicode
> If uppercasing is not common, one would think that setting it too ẞ would > pose no problems, no that it is available. It would, for reasons of stability. Arthur