Re: Bidi paragraph direction in terminal emulators

2019-02-10 Thread Elias Mårtenson via Unicode
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, 18:39 Egmont Koblinger via Unicode On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 2:57 AM Richard Wordingham via Unicode > wrote: > > > Which side do you align RTL cells on? > > It's out of the scope of my docs. > > In the current work-in-progress implementation I align them to the > left, but

Re: Encoding italic

2019-02-10 Thread Kent Karlsson via Unicode
Den 2019-02-10 16:31, skrev "James Kass via Unicode" : > > Philippe Verdy wrote, > >>> ...[one font file having both italic and roman]... For OpenType fonts, there is a "design axis" called "ital". Value 0 on that axis would be roman (upright, normally), and value 1 on that axis would be

Re: Encoding italic

2019-02-10 Thread Doug Ewell via Unicode
Egmont Koblinger wrote: > There are a lot of problems with these escape sequences, and if you go > for a potentially new standard, you might not want to carry these > problems. As others have pointed out, I am suggesting the use of some profile of ISO 6429 within plain text to implement these

Re: Bidi paragraph direction in terminal emulators

2019-02-10 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 14:54:39 +0100 Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > Le sam. 9 févr. 2019 à 20:55, Egmont Koblinger via Unicode < > unicode@unicode.org> a écrit : > > > Hi Asmus, > > > > > On quick reading this appears to be a strong argument why such > > > emulators > > will > > >

Re: Encoding italic

2019-02-10 Thread James Kass via Unicode
Philippe Verdy wrote, >> ...[one font file having both italic and roman]... > The only case where it happens in real fonts is for the mapping of > Mathematical Symbols which have a distinct encoding for some > variants ... William Overington made a proof-of-concept font using the VS14

Re: Bidi paragraph direction in terminal emulators

2019-02-10 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Le sam. 9 févr. 2019 à 20:55, Egmont Koblinger via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> a écrit : > Hi Asmus, > > > On quick reading this appears to be a strong argument why such emulators > will > > never be able to be used for certain scripts. Effectively, the model > described works > > well with

Re: Encoding italic

2019-02-10 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Le dim. 10 févr. 2019 à 05:34, James Kass via Unicode a écrit : > > Martin J. Dürst wrote, > > >> Isn't that already the case if one uses variation sequences to choose > >> between Chinese and Japanese glyphs? > > > > Well, not necessarily. There's nothing prohibiting a font that includes >

Re: Encoding italic

2019-02-10 Thread Rebecca Bettencourt via Unicode
On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 6:23 AM Richard Wordingham via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 04:52:30 -0800 > David Starner via Unicode wrote: > > > Note that this is actually the only thing that stands out to me in > > Unicode not supporting older character sets; in PETSCII

Re: Bidi paragraph direction in terminal emulators

2019-02-10 Thread Egmont Koblinger via Unicode
On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 2:57 AM Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: > Which side do you align RTL cells on? It's out of the scope of my docs. In the current work-in-progress implementation I align them to the left, but there's a TODO entry to align them to the right instead (or maybe center