Re: User-Hostile Text Editing (was: Unicode String Models)

2012-07-22 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2012-07-21, Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: Are there any widely available ways of enabling the deleting of the first character in a default grapheme cluster? Having carefully added two or more marks to a base character, I find it extremely irritating to find I

Re: User-Hostile Text Editing

2012-07-22 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:25:07 + Murray Sargent murr...@exchange.microsoft.com wrote: I'd think deleting the first character of a cluster would make a nice context-menu option. For example, when you right-click on a cluster, the resulting context menu could have an entry like delete first

No appropriate code point for some Chinese punctuation marks

2012-07-22 Thread Gary Kilfear
As a matter of fact, the situation of Chinese punctuation marks is a mess. Until now we do not have independant symbols for Chinese dashes, ellipsis, interpunct in Unicode. In practice, we use three kinds of dashes in Chinese: one is halfwidth, corresponding to the Latin hyphen symbol; one is

Re: No appropriate code point for some Chinese punctuation marks

2012-07-22 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/22/2012 7:08 AM, Gary Kilfear wrote: should we submit a proposal for these Chinese punctuation? My take is that a proposal, with its requirements for evidence and samples, it the best way to systematically capture and collect the information. Once everything is on the table, UTC will

Re: No appropriate code point for some Chinese punctuation marks

2012-07-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 09:43:29AM -0700, Asmus Freytag wrote: Especially in multiscript environment, and those are not that rare, really, it's almost impossible to get such unfications to behave correctly without explicit font binding. And we all know that control of that is elusive in many

Re: User-Hostile Text Editing (was: Unicode String Models)

2012-07-22 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:59:13 +0100 Julian Bradfield jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk wrote: On 2012-07-21, Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: Are there any widely available ways of enabling the deleting of the first character in a default grapheme cluster? What do you mean

Manipulation of System Fonts on Windows 7

2012-07-22 Thread Charlie Ruland
I would like to manipulate system fonts on a Windows 7 computer. More precisely, I wish to do the following: 1. Change the font for CJK Unified Ideographs (and CJK punctuation, radicals etc.; maybe the CJK Ideographs Extensions as well?) from the current Japanese-looking one to one in