Re: Unicode, SMS and year 2012

2012-04-27 Thread Robert Abel
Hi On 2012/04/28 00:23, a...@peoplestring.com wrote: 1. let 'x' be the position of a code positioned at an odd number eg when we take the code '1001010110', the first '1' is positioned at location '1' (so an odd number), the first '0' is positioned at location '2' (not an odd number), the

Re: Key Curry : Attempting to make it easy to type world languages and orthographies on the web

2012-04-18 Thread Robert Abel
Hi Ed, On 2012/04/18 03:56, Ed Trager wrote: Thank you, Philippe! On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Apparently your online input method does not support any other native keyboard than a US QWERTY; Yes - excellent criticism; and at this time this is

Re: searching for PUA characters

2011-08-26 Thread Robert Abel
Hi Lorna, On 2011/08/25 22:17, Lorna Priest wrote: I suppose what I'd like is to be able to identify beginning and ending codepoints to search for, such as F130..F32F or something along that line. You could use jEdit to search within a directory for \p{Co}. This would match ranges

Re: The end of movable type in China: idsgn (a design blog)

2010-07-28 Thread Robert Abel
Hi Eric, thank you for sharing this. Robert On 2010/07/28 17:35, Eric Muller wrote: http://www.idsgn.org/posts/the-end-of-movable-type-in-china/

Re: Reasonable to propose stability policy on numeric type = decimal

2010-07-28 Thread Robert Abel
On 2010/07/29 06:33, karl williamson wrote: Is it the case that a sequence of just these characters, without any intervening characters, and not adjacent to the special characters you mention always mean a place-value decimal number? One common counter-example would be 七五三 (Shichi-Go-San

Re: Pronunciation of the word emoji

2010-07-06 Thread Robert Abel
On 2010/07/06 10:58, William_J_G Overington wrote: I am wondering how people pronounce the word emoji. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Japanese/Pronunciation As emoji has a wholly japanese representation, namely 絵文字 (emoji), you will undoubtedly find the above link very helpful. You may also

Re: Unicode math examples

2010-06-09 Thread Robert Abel
On 2010/06/09 14:59, Doug Ewell wrote: Can anyone point me to some *real-world* examples of mathematics text encoded in Unicode, including (especially) the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols starting at U+1D400? What is *real-world* supposed to mean in this context? Are we talking about printed

Re: Hexadecimal digits

2010-06-08 Thread Robert Abel
On 2010/06/08 21:43, John Dlugosz wrote: So, our unique digits are grandfathered in. It was in ASCII and in EBCDIC, so it's in Unicode. Sometime later, assemblers and compilers came along. The writers of these tools had little trouble using context or strict rules to distinguish A-F

Re: Overloading Unicode

2010-06-06 Thread Robert Abel
On 2010/06/05 15:38, William_J_G Overington wrote: I feel that the encoding of a portable interpretable object code into Unicode could be an infrastructural step forward towards great possibilities for the future. And yet you have not managed to list a single merit of your portable,

Re: Greek letter LAMDA?

2010-06-01 Thread Robert Abel
Why does the code chart call the plain Greek letter (upper and lower case) “LAMDA” rather than “LAMBDA”? The latter is used in other places where a glyph is based on the lambda, e.g. “U+019B LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE” It seems U+019B is the only instance where lambda is used.