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

For me, having to go around justifying my whims would probably take some of the fun out of being an authoritarian ruler. Which suggests that the apostrophe decision can be revised with no explanation expected, even though a simple explanation exists. Changing from the apostrophe to the combining

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

Martin J. Dürst wrote, > ... One way to avoid confusion is to use one specific > letter only as the second letter in digraphs. With the current orthography, > they don't use w and x, so they could use one of these. But personally, I'd > find accents more visually pleasing. Me too: (bottle,

Re: superscripts & subscripts for science/mathematics?

On 01/21/2018 02:27 PM, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le 21/01/2018 à 07:15, David Melik via Unicode a écrit : I don't know if this was discussed, but it'd help scientists/mathematicians if all Greek and Hebrew were available as superscript & subscript. Mathematicians use certain such letters in

Re: Proposed Expansion of Grapheme Clusters to Whole Aksharas - Implementation Issues

Good point, thanks Mark On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 6:41 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:34:12 -0800 > Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode wrote: > > > The ZWJ Virama sequence is already provided for by the combination of > > GB9

Re: Proposed Expansion of Grapheme Clusters to Whole Aksharas - Implementation Issues

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:34:12 -0800 Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode wrote: > I was looking the feedback in http://www.unicode.org/review/pri355/, > and didn't see yours there. Could you please file your feedback > there? (Nothing on this list is tracked by the committee...) This

Re: Proposed Expansion of Grapheme Clusters to Whole Aksharas - Implementation Issues

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:34:12 -0800 Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode wrote: > The ZWJ Virama sequence is already provided for by the combination of > GB9 & GB9c. But not the ZWNJ. If we want to handle that, it would > mean the addition of something like: > > GB9d: × (ZWNJ

Re: Proposed Expansion of Grapheme Clusters to Whole Aksharas - Implementation Issues

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:34:12 -0800 Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode wrote: > FYI, I'm thinking now that the change should be: > > GB9c: (Virama | ZWJ ) × LinkingConsonant > => > GB9c: (Virama ViramaExtend* | ZWJ ) × LinkingConsonant > > where ViramaExtend = [Extend - Virama

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

On 2018/01/23 09:55, James Kass via Unicode wrote: Any Kazakh/Qazaq student ambitious enough to study a foreign language such as English is already sophisticated enough to easily distinguish differing digraph values between the two languages. English speakers face distinctions such as the

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

Phake Nick wrote, > ... and it is not possible for e.g. a regular American > user using Windows to simply type them out, at least not > without prior knowledge about these umlauts. Regular American users simply don't type umlauts, period. Eccentric American users needing umlauts, such as

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

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:35:16 +0800 Phake Nick via Unicode wrote: > There > are language-dependent keyboards for French or German with special > keys or deadkeys that help input these umlauts, but they are language > dependent and it is not possible for e.g. a regular

Re: Internationalised Computer Science Exercises

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:55:16 +0100 Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode wrote: > A simple challenge is to write a function which localize numbers in a > script having decimal digits or parse them (i.e. which have > characters with property Numeric_Type=Decimal, as explained in

Re: Internationalised Computer Science Exercises

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:39:57 + Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote: > By way of example, one programming challenge I set to students a > couple of weeks ago involves diacritics. Please see > jsfiddle.net/coas/wda45gLp Did any of them

Re: Internationalised Computer Science Exercises

Le 22/01/2018 à 17:39, Andre Schappo via Unicode a écrit : By way of example, one programming challenge I set to students a couple of weeks ago involves diacritics. Please see jsfiddle.net/coas/wda45gLp There is huge potential for some really

Internationalised Computer Science Exercises

I continue my endeavours to get Unicode and Internationalisation into/onto (I am not sure which is correct) University and School Curricula. Here is another of my endeavours Yesterday, I drafted a final year student project specification for the 2018/2019 academic year. These projects will

SignWriting in U+40000 block

The IETF is noting the progress of an updated draft: Formal SignWriting draft-slevinski-formal-signwriting-04 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-slevinski-formal-signwriting-04.html which continues to describe an implementation of SignWriting in the as-yet unassigned Plane 4, including a detailed