Re: comma ellipses

It’s deliberately incorrect for humorous effect. It gets used, but making it “official” would almost defeat the purpose. On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 5:02 PM Asmus Freytag via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > On 10/6/2019 4:05 PM, Tex via Unicode wrote: > > Now that comma ellipses (,,,) are a

Re: Encoding italic

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 1:27 AM James Kass via Unicode wrote: > > Nobody has really addressed Andrew West's suggestion about using the tag > characters. > > It seems conformant, unobtrusive, requiring no official sanction, and > could be supported by third-partiers in the absence of corporate >

Re: Encoding italic (was: A last missing link)

I think the real solution is for Twitter to just implement basic styling and make this a moot point. On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 2:37 AM Andrew West via Unicode wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 03:16, James Kass via Unicode > wrote: > > > > Possible approaches include: > > > > 3 - Open/Close

Re: A sign/abbreviation for "magister"

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 2:34 AM arno.schmitt via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > Am 28.10.2018 um 09:13 schrieb Richard Wordingham via Unicode: > > The notation is a quite widespread format for abbreviations. the > > first letter is normal sized, and the subsequent letter is written in >

Re: A sign/abbreviation for "magister"

I learned that one as a kid, as the "pigpen cipher". I'm not aware of any numerological significance (which is easy enough to "find" in anything). On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 7:43 PM Philippe Verdy via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > More interesting: the Masonic alphabet >

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

ne whistling, without actually > encoding any specific tone, or rythmic). > > > 2018-05-17 17:48 GMT+02:00 Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org>: > >> >> >> > On 17 May 2018, at 16:47, Garth Wallace via Unicode < >> unicode@unic

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

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:41 AM Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com> wrote: > > > On 17 May 2018, at 08:47, Garth Wallace via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > wrote: > > > >> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:42 AM, Hans Åberg via Unicode < > unicode@unicode.org

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

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:42 AM, Hans Åberg via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > > On 16 May 2018, at 00:48, Ken Whistler via Unicode > wrote: > > > > On 5/15/2018 2:46 PM, Markus Scherer via Unicode wrote: > >> I am proposing the addition of 2 new characters to

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

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Kent Karlsson wrote: > > Den 2017-04-12 05:14, skrev "Garth Wallace" : > > One salient feature the Block Elements have that the Box Drawing > characters do not: distinct LEFT and RIGHT verticals, and LOWER and UPPER >

Re: Xiangqi Game Symbols (was Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation)

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:13 AM Andrew West <andrewcw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 April 2017 at 05:12, Garth Wallace via Unicode > <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > > > Later Xiangqi proposals by Andrew West focused on > > the circled ideographs and did not p

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Philippe Verdy via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > > 2017-04-11 15:04 GMT+02:00 Kent Karlsson via Unicode > : > >> >> Den 2017-04-10 12:19, skrev "Michael Everson" : >> >> > I believe the box drawing characters

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Kent Karlsson via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > Den 2017-04-10 12:19, skrev "Michael Everson" : > > > I donšt want to get mixed up in using the box-drawing > > characters. The characters which I have chosen work fine and to my