Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-25 Thread William_J_G Overington
Richard Wordingham wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Looking at the document http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf that has been mentioned, the four bracket characters are therein described as follows. 4X1F O LEFT

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-25 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:54:29 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Richard Wordingham wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Looking at the document http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-25 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/25/2015 12:07 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:54:29 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Richard Wordingham wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Looking at the

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-24 Thread William_J_G Overington
Looking at the document http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf that has been mentioned, the four bracket characters are therein described as follows. 4X1F O LEFT BRACKET, REVERSE SOLIDUS TOP CORNER 4X20 C RIGHT BRACKET, REVERSE SOLIDUS BOTTOM CORNER 4X21 O LEFT BRACKET, SOLIDUS BOTTOM CORNER

Aw: Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-24 Thread Jörg Knappen
I must admit, although I have seen really lots of mathematical notations, I have never encountered those particular brackets. I have no intuition how they should pair. --Jrg Knappen Gesendet:Samstag, 22. August 2015 um 18:35 Uhr Von:Julian Bradfield jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-24 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Looking at the document http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf that has been mentioned, the four bracket characters are therein described as follows. 4X1F O LEFT BRACKET, REVERSE SOLIDUS TOP

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-23 Thread Nigel Small
Thanks to everyone for your responses so far. In terms of my comment on which brackets make intuitive pairs, I should perhaps have explained my thought process more clearly. If one is to consider the possible origins of these symbols, one likely idea is that they could be used to symbolise a

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 10:32:45 -0700 Asmus Freytag (t) asmus-...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On 8/22/2015 9:35 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: There is no inherent meaning to the order of codepoints, it's just convenience. And for that reason, we have property files to explicitly give the properties

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 8/22/2015 2:47 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: But codepoints are normally orderly until they enter the ISO approval process. Thereafter, disorder creeps in, and becomes ever more likely as blocks fill up Haha, good one. . The

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/22/2015 9:35 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: There is no inherent meaning to the order of codepoints, it's just convenience. And for that reason, we have property files to explicitly give the properties rather than asking the user to "glean"

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Nigel Small ni...@nigelsmall.com Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 17:08:48 +0100 I am looking for clarification on an aspect of Unicode bracket pairing, specifically in relation to the following four characters: 298D; 2990; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER 298E; 298F; c #

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2015-08-22, Nigel Small ni...@nigelsmall.com wrote: 298D; 2990; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER 298E; 298F; c # RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER 298F; 298E; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER 2990; 298D; c # RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN