Re: Aleph-umlaut

Am 2018-11-09 um 13:42 schrieb Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode: Noticed something really fascinating in an old pamphlet I was reading really interesting, thanks! (Link is

Re: Hyphenation Markup

Am 2018-06-02 um 06:44 schrieb Richard Wordingham via Unicode: In Latin text, one can indicate permissible line break opportunities between grapheme clusters by inserting U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN. What low-end schemes, if any, exist for such mark-up within grapheme clusters? What about U+200B ZWSP?

Re: Uppercase ß

Hello, am 2018-05-29 um 10:15 Uhr hat Hans Åberg geschrieben: Duden used one in 1957, but stated in 1984 that there is no uppercase version [1]. There used to bee two differnt orthographic dictionaries, both called “Duden”: ► The Duden from Leipzig (DDR) had a captal “ß”, on the cover page

Re: L2/18-181

Am 2018-05-16 um 22:46 Uhr hat Doug Ewell geschrieben: 2. Collation is different between the Assamese and Bengali languages, and code point order should reflect collation order. … 4. The use of a single encoded script to write two languages forces users to use language identifiers to identify

Re: A sketch with the best-known Swiss tongue twister

2018-03-09 12:09 GMT+01:00 Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode : De Papscht hät z’Schpiäz s’Schpäkchbschtekch z’schpaat bschtellt. literally: The Pope has [in Spiez] [the bacon cutlery] [too late] ordered. Am 2018-03-09 um 12:52 schrieb

Re: Unicode education in UK Schools

Hello, am 2017-07-07 um 20:45 Uhr hat Asmus Freytag geschrieben: I also checked whether there are accessible homework assignments that mention Unicode ("Hausaufgabe Unicode"). I didn't go very deep, but it seems that it's not untypical to relegate Unicode to a sidebar, explaining the "\u"

Tilde (was: Unicode education in UK Schools)

Hello, am 2017-07-07 um 17:14 Uhr hat William_J_G Overington geschrieben: I found that the character a tilde as I now know it to be called is only used in Portuguese. Just for the record: “Ô is used in Portuguese, Kashubian; “Ñ” is used in Galician, Spanish, Mirandese, Catalan (only for

Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

Hello, on 03.07.2017 19:01, Otto Stolz via Unicode wrote: Since German ist the only language using “ß” (if I am not mistaken), […] Am 2017-07-03 um 20:15 Uhr hat Gerrit Ansmann geschrieben: Some old Sorbian (blackletter) orthographies also employed the ß. It was also used at the beginning

Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

Hello, am 2017-06-30 um 17:34 Uhr hat Michael Everson geschrieben: It would be sensible to case-map ß to ẞ however. Since German ist the only language using “ß” (if I am not mistaken), Unicode should comply with the official German orthographic rules with respect to this letter. As I have

Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

Hello, am 2017-07-03 um 18:16 Uhr habe ich geschrieben: This rule did hold for all consonants, there’s nothing particular about double-s. On 2017-07-03 at 18:05 Jörg Knappen had written: the hyphenation oddity … never affected the letter s. Jörg is right. I forgot the additional rule that

LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

Hello, der Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung which is responsible for the further development of the official German ortho- graphy has finally recognized LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S as a possible upper-case equvalent for the LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S. The report announcing the change is dated