Re: emojis for mouse buttons?

Why are these called "emojis" for mouse buttons rather than just "characters" for them? On Tue, 31 Dec, 2019, 18:45 Philippe Verdy via Unicode, wrote: > A lot of application need to document their keymap and want to display > keys. > > For now there are emojis for mouses (several variants: 1, 2

Re: Not accepted by UTC but in ISO ballot?

Dec, 2019, 07:19 Ken Whistler, wrote: > Shriramana, > > On 12/20/2019 6:29 PM, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: > > I was looking at the pipeline for something else, and for the first > > time I see a character category: “not accepted by the UTC but in ISO > > ballot”

Re: Re: NBSP supposed to stretch, right?

So I was wondering whether TeX only does this to the ~ input character or the actual NBSP Unicode character too?

Re: NBSP supposed to stretch, right?

On 12/19/19, James Kass via Unicode wrote: > > There's a bug report for the LibreOffice application here... > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41652 > ...which shows an interesting history of the situation. LOL two years ago almost to the date Shriramana Sharma s

Long standing problem with Vedic tone markers and post-base visarga/anusvara

they can follow. I figured that if this is discussed and decided here, everyone can fix it at the same time. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Re: NBSP supposed to stretch, right?

On 12/21/19, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 17:25:17 +0530 > Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: > >> I don't expect NBSP to ever disappear, because spaces disappear only >> at linebreaks, and NBSP simply doesn't stand at linebreaks. > &

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: NBSP supposed to stretch, right?

On 12/21/19, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > 1) > > With the existing single NBSP character, provide a software option to > either make it flexible or inflexible, but this preference should be > stored as part of the document and not the application settings, else > shared documents

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: NBSP supposed to stretch, right?

and Paragraph Separators with the annotation: “may be used to represent this semantic unambiguously”. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Not accepted by UTC but in ISO ballot?

been the practice to my knowledge to get a character approved by the UTC first. Anyone throw some light on these particular cases? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Re: NBSP supposed to stretch, right?

On Tue 17 Dec, 2019, 16:09 QSJN 4 UKR via Unicode, wrote: > Agree. > By the way, it is common practice to use multiple nbsp in a row to > create a larger span. In my opinion, it is wrong to replace fixed > width spaces with non-breaking spaces. > Quote from Microsoft Typography Character design

NBSP supposed to stretch, right?

equal to U+0020 for the purpose of stretching for justified alignment. Only then can text such as the above be naturally easily formatted. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Emoji boom?

(from my POV as an Indian) to mainstream digital devices. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Re: Fw: Latin Script Danda

I don't know many modern fonts that display 007C as a broken glyph. In fact I haven't seen a broken line pipe glyph since the MS-DOS days. Nowadays we have 00A6 for that.

Re: Script_extension Property of U+0310 Combining Candrabindu

separate characters would help preserving sanity in implementing text shaping engines or such. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Re: Latin Script Danda

to canvas Latin font vendors to include the Devanagari characters 0964/0965 on a small technicality of character property. Is there a particular reason it's *really* necessary to include Latn in the script extension property of 0964/0965? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Excessive emoji usage and TTS (was Re: A last missing link)

On Thu 10 Jan, 2019, 20:49 Arthur Reutenauer via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org wrote: > > On this topic, I was just pointed to > > https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1083073242330361856 > > “You 혵혩혪혯혬 it's 풸퓊퓉ℯ to 현헿헶혁헲 your tweets and usernames > 햙햍햎햘 햜햆햞. But > have you 홡홞홨황홚홣홚홙

Shortcuts question

Hello. This may be slightly OT for this list but I'm asking it here as it concerns computer usage with multiple scripts and i18n: 1) Are shortcuts like Ctrl+C changed as per locale? I mean Ctrl+T for "tout" io Ctrl+A for "all"? 2) How about when the shortcuts are the Alt+ combinations referring

Usage of emoji in coding contexts!

as the actual emoji characters but sometimes as :coloned-tags: (or what do you call it) but I presume the GitHub system will convert it to the actual characters before displaying… -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Re: Tamil Brahmi Short Mid Vowels

This is a unique problem because this is probably the only case where the same script produces conjuncts for one language and not for another. I had asked for a separate Tamil Brahmi virama to be encoded which would obviate this problem but that was shot down. Maybe that case should be reopened?

Re: UNICODE vehicle vanity registration?

On 14-Feb-2018 22:45, "Alastair Houghton" wrote: I’d hope that Mark Davis has “UNICODE” on his car. However, I’m not sure how relevant it really is to this mailing list. You're right. My apologies. It *is* somewhat OT to the actual purpose of this list. But I

Re: UNICODE vehicle vanity registration?

Sorry but "UNICODE" does fit within those rules doesn't it? On 14-Feb-2018 21:54, "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzme...@nic.fr> wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:44:06PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote a message of 6 lines which said

UNICODE vehicle vanity registration?

Given that in the US vanity vehicle registrations with arbitrary alphanumeric sequences upto 7 characters are permitted (I am correct I hope?), I wonder who (here?) owns the UNICODE registration? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Re: Why so much emoji nonsense?

ot be refused, but the question is whether encoding bat ball in the first place was keeping with the original intention or spirit of Unicode. Anyhow, what is done is done and the Pandora's box is now open and I don't envy the ESC their job. I don't know, maybe sometimes they may just feel like hitting "ESC&qu

Re: Emoji blooper

To illustrate… -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Emoji blooper

of the trumpet! LOL. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

But your outgoing "From" address doesn't seem to have an accent!? On 26-Jan-2018 13:58, "Andre Schappo via Unicode" wrote: > > Talking of typing names correctly. Few people bother to type the acute > accent in André. > > This academic year, for the first time ever, I gave

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

On 24-Jan-2018 00:25, "Doug Ewell via Unicode" wrote: I think it's so cute that some of us think we can advise Nazarbayev on whether to use straight or curly apostrophes or accents or x's or whatever. Like he would listen to a bunch of Western technocrats. Sir why this

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

On 23-Jan-2018 10:03, "James Kass via Unicode" wrote: (bottle, east, skier, crucial, cherry) s'i's'a, s'yg'ys, s'an'g'ys'y, s'es'u's'i, s'i'i'e sxixsxa, sxygxys, sxanxgxysxy, sxesxuxsxi, sxixixe s̈ïs̈a, s̈yg̈ys, s̈an̈g̈ys̈y, s̈es̈üs̈i, s̈ïïe śíśa, śyǵys,

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

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Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

t via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > wrote: > > > > On 19 January 2018 at 09:16, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode > > <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > >> Wow. Somebody really needs to convey this to the Kazhaks. Else a > >> short-sighted decision would rui

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

Wow. Somebody really needs to convey this to the Kazhaks. Else a short-sighted decision would ruin their chances at native IDNs. Any Kazhaks on this list? On 19-Jan-2018 00:23, "Asmus Freytag via Unicode" wrote: > Top level IDN domain names can not contain 02BC, nor 0027 or

Emoji for major planets at least?

all those other than astronomy buffs but the physical shapes of the major planets are known to all high school students… -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

Rejecting the digraph method (which is probably the simplest) doesn't have much meaning because they have different sounds in different languages all the time like ch in English and German. Anyhow, it certainly can be difficult convincing non technical political people. Modifier letters are more

Popular wordprocessors treating U+00A0 as fixed-width

-space-justification-in-word-2016/4fa1ad30-004c-454f-9775-a3beaa91c88b?auth=1 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41652 -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

\b and Indic word boundaries?

all the intricacies. So my question: isn't \b the Unicode-recommended way of identifying full Unicode-aware word boundaries in regexes? If not, what is? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ူ၆ိျိါအူိ၆ါး

Re: Assamese and Unicode.

script. AFAICS they do not deny that the encoding "just works". -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

RE: Unicode education in Schools

IIUC the limitation seems to be only that functions such as "charAt" do not recognize that surrogates aren't valid characters: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/charAt via https://stackoverflow.com/a/8716157/1503120. This is a problem of many

Re: Unicode education in Schools

So how do you think it matters if the characters are in the BMP or SMP?

Ah the power of emoji! To encompass even science and mythology!

 <-- lunar eclipse  <-- solar eclipse  <-- apocalypse https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/518697246305439745 ☺ Not new (2014) but I hadn't seen this till today and felt it a propos re the recent pair of eclipses. Shriramana Sharma.

Re: Version linking?

Thanks for your reply, but how can characters be used portably if they are not part of the published standard yet? Or is it that hereafter both Unicode Standard + Unicode Emoji Standard will be parallelly portable or something like that? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Version linking?

/emoji_dingbats.html – hence asking here. I hope I didn't miss something. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Turtle Graphics Emoji

for animal in animalKingdom: createEmojiProposal(animal) ☺ Emoji are a veritable Pandora box.

Wagging finger emoji?

e "Look up!" And sure enough: 261D;WHITE UP POINTING INDEX;So;0;ON;N;;;;; -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Counting Devanagari Aksharas

shara" in your question to avoid confusions by people replying having a different idea of the meaning of that term. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Sanskrit -e/o a- Sandhi in Devanagari

This seems quite reasonable. On 25 Feb 2017 04:06, "Richard Wordingham" wrote: > The usual form of this sandhi in modern Sanskrit is described as the a- > dropping and being replaced by avagraha. If word boundaries are > represented by SPACE, am I correct in

Re: Noto unified font

That's your definition of non-free then... If I were a font developer and of mind to release my font for use without charge, I wouldn't want anyone else to make money out of selling it when I myself - who put the effort into preparing it - don't make money from selling it. So it protects the moral

Re: Noto unified font

Interested to know why you think OFL is non-free... On 9 Oct 2016 05:18, "Luke Dashjr" wrote: > On Saturday, October 08, 2016 5:57:41 PM James Kass wrote: > > Google and Monotype unveil The Noto Project's unified font for all > > languages: > >

Android character picker

Hello. Kindly advise on what is the most comprehensive and up to date Unicode character picker for Android available. Am not able to find a good one. Thanks..

Re: non-breaking snakes

Isn't there some Japanese orthography feature that already does something like this? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Unicode in passwords

I recently came across this bug report where a filesystem encrypted with a Cyrillic script password could not be decrypted at boot time: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681250 -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Unicode in passwords

I had hoped it would be obvious my reply was not intended to the "best practices" part of the OP, but to the "potential problems" part of it... In any case, I have nothing further to say on this topic. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Unicode in passwords

On 10/5/15, Marc Blanchet <marc.blanc...@viagenie.ca> wrote: > On 5 Oct 2015, at 8:14, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681250 > > And? Well the OP did say: I'm researching potential problems and best practices for password polic

Re: Accessing the WG2 document register

stands in the place of your unconcerned and not unconcerned to individual feelings... -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Accessing the WG2 document register

... -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Accessing the WG2 document register

of ISO 10646, except for that if by closing its doors to proposal authors, the ISO is going to communicate only with the UTC, then the UTC would have to take upon itself the onus of forwarding all proposals to the ISO saying -- I'm sure the UTC doesn't want that. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா

25CC for dotted circle, but what for dashed box?

I hope the subject line makes it clear. What character is to be used when a dashed box such as that shown for special-rendering characters in the code chart is required to be actually shown in text? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: 25CC for dotted circle, but what for dashed box?

Nice -- I was searching for DASHED BOX since that's what TUS 7.0 ch 24.1 refers to it as and there are too many SQUARE characters... -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Code charts and code points (was: Re: fonts for U7.0 scripts)

Hi Martin. If you haven't noticed it before, opening Unicode charts in PDF readers has something like SECURED on the top i.o.w. the charts are sorta DRM-protected. So you can't copy-paste the characters. Heck you can't even copy-paste the character *names*! -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா

Re: Code charts and code points (was: Re: fonts for U7.0 scripts)

to download 92 MB please? (In Asia the broadband speeds aren't all that fast...) -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ___ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode

Re: fonts for U7.0 scripts

of problems you foresee? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ___ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode

Re: fonts for U7.0 scripts

The Grantha link is broken. The site no longer exists. I have contacted the original author. Will post here once he replies. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ___ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman

?MP = Multi*lingual* plane?

Given that Unicode encodes scripts and not languages, how appropriate is it to call the BMP and the SMP as the multi*lingual* planes? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ___ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman

Re: Aw: Astrological symbol for Pluto?

knowledge) like Pluto, and I have not heard any of the other dwarf planets (Ceres, Haumea, Makemake and Eris) having any symbols... -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ___ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman

Astrological symbol for Pluto?

: [image: Inline image 1] Has there been any proposal to encode this? (I'm guessing Michael might be interested...) -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा 200px-Pluto's_astrological_symbol.svg.png___ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http

Re: Offlist UniView mini-app

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: lol. How about you post on github at least? OK good idea. Any objections to re-using the name UniView? I suppose Ishida is on either of these lists. I would like to hear from him especially. -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Offlist UniView mini-app

like Codepoint Viewer would do I suppose... -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ___ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode

Re: Offlist UniView mini-app

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Behdad Esfahbod beh...@behdad.org wrote: lol. How about you post on github at least? Thanks for the encouragement. I didn't think it would be *that* important to do that. Please visit now: https://github.com/jamadagni/cpview -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Offlist UniView mini-app

Not sure if anyone actually tried this app, but just wanted to notify that I found a small bug. To correct it, insert 4 after elif on line 15. Shriramana. ___ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode

Offlist UniView mini-app

a few tweaks would be needed to get it working with Py2. Since it's GPL, please feel free to make derivatives. I hope the name UniView is not copyrighted or anything. Certainly don't intend to infringe... -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा #! /usr/bin/env python3 # UniView -- to list

Re: [Lohit-devel-list] Handling Malayalam NTA issue for Lohit2

though it is difficult at first. If you delay the adoption of the standard, it only gets all the harder as time passes, since in the interim even more people continue to assume the old behaviour... -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ___ Unicode

Re: letters that complete the rectangle in Indic scripts

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.com wrote: I have been told that Devanagari contains letters (or a letter) that were invented merely to complete the rectangular C-V table; not sure to what extent they (or it) were used subsequently. In which reference is

Re: Posting Links to Ballots (was: RE: Why blackletter letters?)

:2014 (4th edition) (WG2 N4459) http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13151-n4459.pdf Dear Ken, Would I be correct in understanding that these two docs respectively conform to the characters in stage 7 and stages 4/5/6 as seen in http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html? -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Posting Links to Ballots (was: RE: Why blackletter letters?)

is a bit... um 'involved' to understand for those not directly involved in it (except via submitting proposals and participating in UTC meetings) like me... I presume it would be something done six months once and would not be too much extra work? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Behdad Esfahbod won an O'Reilly Open Source Award!

Congratulations Behdad and especially for integrating Graphite into HB... :-) Sent from my Android phone On Jul 30, 2013 1:56 AM, Roozbeh Pournader rooz...@google.com wrote: Some of you probably have heard the news already, but in case you haven't, Behdad won the prestigious O'Reilly Open

Re: Bug?: Not able to type పయోఽంబు.... (Telugu)

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:24 AM, James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com wrote: Further testing showed that pango and harfbuzz get it right when using the font Pothana2000, and fail with every other font I have to test. Is it because Pothana doesn't have the dotted circle glyph? -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Why wasn't it possible to encode a coeng-like joiner for Tibetan?

-- they only facilitate one-to-one mapping. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Why wasn't it possible to encode a coeng-like joiner for Tibetan?

Would the encoding of a subjoined consonant series have been considered bright then? Curious. When we don't have a problem with subjoined forms of Kannada, Telugu and Grantha being represented using a virama despite also being taught that they are vattu-s (equivalent to coeng) what exacerbating

Re: Why wasn't it possible to encode a coeng-like joiner for Tibetan?

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Michael S. Kaplan mic...@trigeminal.com wrote: Qty Uh? I even checked if that is a contraction like QED, but didn't seem to find any explanation on the net! -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: Why wasn't it possible to encode a coeng-like joiner for Tibetan?

://svayambhava.org/) fonts that have the extended Devanagari ligatures required for Sanskrit. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Why wasn't it possible to encode a coeng-like joiner for Tibetan?

wish and encode 0F6A and 0FBA-0FBC to avoid such specialized character stuff, but still for the rest of the consonants including the prevalent -tags forms of YA RA VA, the justification provided for a full series of atomic subjoining characters seems quite insufficient... -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Why wasn't it possible to encode a coeng-like joiner for Tibetan?

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Christopher Fynn chris.f...@gmail.com wrote: In Unicode v1 Tibetan was encoded on the Indic model - but in practice there were problems found with this and Tibetan was removed and later re-encoded. I'd like to know what exact problems. Often I hear there are

Re: A research idea for entering characters

. (Given that the OS of most of these devices is locked out-of-the-box, one is limited by the supplied fonts too.) -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Private Use Area

point, you agree to use that codepoint to represent that written form. -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: io9 describes Unicode as one of the 10 most unlikely things influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien

the logical connection between Unicode as a technical standard and Tolkien! I hadn't heard about this website, but if they purport to write on science, but make such illogical deductions, I am not sure I'll be reading it much in future. -- Shriramana Sharma

Why 11 planes?

beyond , even if FF (or ) is considered too big? (I mean, I'm not sure how that extra 64Ki chars [10 minus F] could be important...) Thanks. -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Meaning of Numeric Type digit

Looking at the two sets of Brahmi numbers would also be instructive... Sent from my Android phone On Jul 12, 2012 6:21 AM, Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: What is a number having a numeric type of digit meant to convey? The old Unicode 2.0 definition definition of

Re: Sinhala naming conventions

people on this list and might be interested. -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Sinhala naming conventions

for Sinhala speakers. Michael feels it would have been better if they had been named after the *Indian* Indic scripts. -- Shriramana Sharma

Sinhala naming conventions

, either way, annotations or informative aliases would be needed. BTW there is no point in spending much more time writing on this, since it is a done thing. -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: ASSAMESE AND BENGALI CONTROVERSY IN UNICODE STANDARD ::::: SOLUTIONS

for such Bengali script characters as are used in Assamese orthography. -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: ASSAMESE AND BENGALI CONTROVERSY IN UNICODE STANDARD ::::: SOLUTIONS

effort always needed to get the significance of character names (except those that are in English). I myself don't understand all those Cyrillic and rare Latin character names like EZH BUZH etc! :-) -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: ASSAMESE AND BENGALI CONTROVERSY IN UNICODE STANDARD ::::: SOLUTIONS

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: On the contrary, doubling for (historical) retroflexion is a fairly clear convention. Where, please? I have never heard of it. (But of course my knowledge is limited.) -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Bengali conjuncts with U+09A4 (Ta)

Umm, is perhaps a khanda ta (somewhat recently encoded) involved? Sent from my Android phone On Jul 5, 2012 11:53 PM, Andreas Prilop prilop4...@trashmail.net wrote: To obtain the Bengali conjunct (ligature) tka, I write ta virama ka U+09A4 U+09CD U+0995 This worked fine

Re: Are Named sequences always going to be graphemes?

of Latin text?) -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Are Named sequences always going to be graphemes?

;0;ON;N; 274C;CROSS MARK;So;0;ON;N; 3003;DITTO MARK;Po;0;ON;N; 3012;POSTAL MARK;So;0;ON;N; 3013;GETA MARK;So;0;ON;N; 303C;MASU MARK;Lo;0;L;N; 1F48B;KISS MARK;So;0;ON;N; The last one is particularly interesting! ;-) -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Are Named sequences always going to be graphemes?

named sequence status: \u0053\u0048\u0052\u0049\u0052\u0041\u004D\u0041\u004E\u0041 ;-) -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Offlist: complex rendering

with it. Unicode is not perfect. Nothing human-made is perfect. But Unicode follows a system and that system works. If one does not understand that system, please let them try to do so. And please take the discussion offlist. -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Unicode 6.2 to Support the Turkish Lira Sign

this. It’s disproportionate to regard a currency symbol as an emergency case. It sets a questionable precedent. How so? -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Exact positioning of Indian Rupee symbol according to Unicode Technical Committee

(that I have used). BTW my Sony Xperia Neo V updated to ICS is able to display the rupee sign but does not give it a key in its International Keyboard. -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: BabelMap updated to 6.1

this mentioned on the website? Anyhow, I believe many people would like to use an independent character picker along with their favourite editor or whatever... -- Shriramana Sharma

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