RE: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

@unicode.org Subject: Re: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block On 13 May 2016, at 18:31, Ori Avtalion <o...@avtalion.name> wrote: > Any plans for Rashi Script? It doesn't seem to fit any of the > categories you listed. Arguably, it's just a font, but there's > precedence in Unicode :) Not

Re: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

On 13 May 2016, at 18:31, Ori Avtalion wrote: > Any plans for Rashi Script? It doesn't seem to fit any of the > categories you listed. Arguably, it's just a font, but there's > precedence in Unicode :) Not good precedent, I think. Rashi would be best considered like Fraktur

Re: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Robert Wheelock wrote: > ·Additional characters for correct typesetting of Hebrew Will this include BROKEN VAV? http://www.sofer.co.uk/html/broken_vav.html > ·Additional Hebrew characters for other Jewish languages Can you please provide some

RE: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

added to the Roadmap. Peter From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Robert Wheelock Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 4:55 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: RE: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block Hello again, y’all! ¡BAD NEWS! (CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT): The Unicode Consortium

Re: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

Le 11/05/2016 18:05, Philippe Verdy a écrit : But are these supplemental Malayalam letters borrowed from Syriac really RTL like in the Syriac script ? I have doubts (it would seriously impact the Malayalam script which is LTR). Since these character are uses to write the Malayalam *language* in

RE: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

Philippe Verdy wrote: > But are these supplemental Malayalam letters borrowed from Syriac > really RTL like in the Syriac script ? I have doubts (it would > seriously impact the Malayalam script which is LTR). > > May be the letter forms are identical (or similar) but they are > changed to LTR

Re: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

But are these supplemental Malayalam letters borrowed from Syriac really RTL like in the Syriac script ? I have doubts (it would seriously impact the Malayalam script which is LTR). May be the letter forms are identical (or similar) but they are changed to LTR (so the disunicification is

RE: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

Robert Wheelock wrote: > ¡BAD NEWS! (CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT): The Unicode Consortium has assigned > OTHER characters into the U+00860-U+008FF areas in the BMP of > Unicode—Malayalam extended additional characters for Garshuni, and > more additional Arabic characters. Philippe Verdy replied: > Si

RE: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

I wrote: > Pandey's proposal suggests they > should have General Category AL, like other Syriac letters. AL is a bidi type, not a General Category. Still. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#AL -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 

RE: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

Si this assignent does not respect the default rtl property of the range. It would not be a probleme for combining characters, but for LTR base letters in Malayalam this is a major problem... Induc scripts are already complexe enough without this additional incompatibility which will act against

Re: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

FYI It seems like 08xx is reserved for RTL scripts. http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/extracted/DerivedBidiClass.txt # The unassigned code points that default to R are in the ranges: # [\u0590-\u05FF *\u07C0-\u089F* \uFB1D-\uFB4F \U00010800-\U00010FFF \U0001E800-\U0001EDFF

Re: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

Sounds like a plan; most additional Hebrew characters can probably safely live in the SMP, as they are not all that common (except, of course, TETRAGRAMMATON, which I'll be writing another proposal about). What Samaritan vowel and accent points did we miss when we did Samaritan the first time

RE: The Hebrew Extended (Proposed) Block

Hello again, y’all! ¡BAD NEWS! (CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT): The Unicode Consortium has assigned OTHER characters into the U+00860-U+008FF areas in the BMP of Unicode—Malayalam extended additional characters for Garshuni, and more additional Arabic characters. We’ll need to find a DIFFERENT subblock