Re: Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-15 Thread Doug Ewell
John Hudson tiro at tiro dot com wrote: Love the HOT BEVERAGE character, but where's the TALL LOWFAT SOYMILK MOCHA FRAPPUCCINO? Come on guys, there's enough blank spaces in that block for the entire Starbucks beverage menu, especially if you treat things like EXTRA FOAM as a combining

Re: Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-15 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Doug Ewell wrote: These flag characters were accepted and will probably find widespread use in other contexts, but their politically charged origin is a bit disturbing. Similar characters may already be anywhere else in Unicode. One interesting example is U+262B, the

Re: Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-15 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Roozbeh Pournader | | Is anyone collecting notes to write that Every Character Has a | Story book some time? It's a good case for such a research! ;) I'm collecting these stories as they appear on the list. I've got them stored in an XML document so that I have the necessary structure to use

Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-14 Thread John Cowan
Someone asked what new scripts were arriving in Unicode 4.0. This list is taken from the pipeline page (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html): Limbu (Kirat) Tai Le Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (part of Latin, technically) Linear B (syllabary and ideographs) Aegean Numbers Ugaritic

Re: Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-14 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:55:26PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: Someone asked what new scripts were arriving in Unicode 4.0. This list is taken from the pipeline page (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html): what are the plans with Glagolitic script? --

Re: Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-14 Thread Michael Everson
At 19:44 +0200 2002-08-14, Radovan Garabik wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:55:26PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: Someone asked what new scripts were arriving in Unicode 4.0. This list is taken from the pipeline page (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html): what are the plans

Re: Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-14 Thread James Kass
- From: John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 9:55 AM Subject: Scripts in Unicode 4.0 Someone asked what new scripts were arriving in Unicode 4.0. This list is taken from the pipeline page (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html

Re: Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-14 Thread Theodore H. Smith
Someone asked what new scripts were arriving in Unicode 4.0. This list is taken from the pipeline page (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html): Limbu (Kirat) Tai Le Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (part of Latin, technically) Linear B (syllabary and ideographs) Aegean Numbers

Re: Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-14 Thread Kenneth Whistler
John Hudson mused: Love the HOT BEVERAGE character, but where's the TALL LOWFAT SOYMILK MOCHA FRAPPUCCINO? Come on guys, there's enough blank spaces in that block for the entire Starbucks beverage menu, especially if you treat things like EXTRA FOAM as a combining character. Well,

Re: Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-14 Thread Patrick Andries
- Original Message - From: John Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:11 AM 14-08-02, James Kass wrote: BMP proposed additions: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2491.pdf Love the HOT BEVERAGE character, but where's the TALL LOWFAT SOYMILK MOCHA FRAPPUCCINO? Come on guys, there's

Re: Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-14 Thread James Kass
Patrick Andries wrote in response to John Hudson, Love the HOT BEVERAGE character, but where's the TALL LOWFAT SOYMILK MOCHA FRAPPUCCINO? Come on guys, there's enough blank spaces in that block for the entire Starbucks beverage menu, especially if you treat things like EXTRA FOAM as a

Re: Scripts in Unicode 4.0

2002-08-14 Thread John Cowan
Theodore H. Smith scripsit: Whats the point of having more Latin characters? Do they look like normal Roman characters? I think we have a few versions (3 or more?) of them, already. I thought once was enough. UPA is like IPA: it exploits certain potentials of Latin script that aren't