Peter Kirk on 08/21/2003 09:33:27 AM:
> As for the requirement for distinct upper and lower case variants of
> ayin, I understood that there was a similar requirement in some minor
> Cyrillic languages, at least for apostrophe and double apostrophe.
> Earlier this year Peter Constable was gathe
At 14:33 -0700 2003-08-29, Peter Kirk wrote:
Well, *I* gave it its name. And as to the glyph, having an original
model in something does not mean that an entity has not budded off
into its own letterness. ;-)
My point is that you didn't call it ayin. Neither did the ancient
Egyptians as this is
[ME]
> > I do not want to add a combining
> > Egyptological ring-thingy to Unicode. It is not a productive mark. A
> > capital and small letter i with a deformed dot is what's needed,
> > that's all.
[PK]
> I thought it was policy never to add new precomposed characters, however
> unproducti
On 29/08/2003 10:18, Michael Everson wrote:
At 02:10 -0700 2003-08-26, Peter Kirk wrote:
EGYPTOLOGICAL AYIN? I don't think it is either U+02BD or U+02BF. The
former is a reversed comma, the latter a half-ring. And neither has
a capital, as the Egyptological character has.
Michael, it is very
At 02:10 -0700 2003-08-26, Peter Kirk wrote:
EGYPTOLOGICAL AYIN? I don't think it is either U+02BD or U+02BF.
The former is a reversed comma, the latter a half-ring. And neither
has a capital, as the Egyptological character has.
Michael, it is very clear to me that the Egyptological ayin is
mod
At 09:33 -0700 2003-08-21, Peter Kirk wrote:
The hyperlink to
http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/pdf/n2241-egypt.pdf is dead,
Of course, I have not been involved with that organization since
September 2001 -- more than twenty-three months now. I have continued
Irish work on codes, character se
On 25/08/2003 18:47, Michael Everson wrote:
At 05:15 -0700 2003-08-21, Peter Kirk wrote:
On 21/08/2003 03:14, Michael Everson wrote:
At 10:59 +0100 2003-08-21, Paul James Cowie wrote:
the sign used for aleph (looks like a 3, but isn't, obviously)
Not encoded yet.
What are you using for ayin
At 05:15 -0700 2003-08-21, Peter Kirk wrote:
On 21/08/2003 03:14, Michael Everson wrote:
At 10:59 +0100 2003-08-21, Paul James Cowie wrote:
the sign used for aleph (looks like a 3, but isn't, obviously)
Not encoded yet.
What are you using for ayin?
EGYPTOLOGICAL AYIN? I don't think it is either
On 21/08/2003 07:38, Paul James Cowie wrote:
Thanks, Michael and Peter
For your feedback regarding Egyptian transliteration characters - I
did get the feeling after trawling the code charts that they just
weren't all there. now you've confirmed the fact (well, at least
we do have the d
Thanks, Michael and Peter
For your feedback regarding Egyptian transliteration characters - I did
get the feeling after trawling the code charts that they just weren't
all there. now you've confirmed the fact (well, at least we do have
the dotted k though I conventionally use "q" fo
Paul James Cowie scripsit:
> It would be great, though, to
> have access to purpose-encoded characters for the conventional Egyptian
> aleph (3) and yod (i with a half-ring) that don't rely on combinations
> or workarounds.
I quite agree about the 3-like character (which for whatever reason i
James P Cowrie posted:
the sign used for aleph (looks like a 3, but isn't, obviously)
Actually the sign similar to 3 is used for `ain, `ayan, not aleph.
Normally U+02BE is used for aleph, though sometimes slightly extended.
Paul James Cowrie posted:
the sign used for aleph (looks like a 3, but isn't, obviously)
the sign used for yod (looks like a i with a right ring tick above it)
the sign used interchangeably for q (looks like a k with a dot beneath
it)
See http://www.dfki.de/~nederhof/AEL/transliteration.html fo
Thanks, Michael and Peter
For your feedback regarding Egyptian transliteration characters - I did
get the feeling after trawling the code charts that they just weren't
all there. now you've confirmed the fact (well, at least we do have
the dotted k though I conventionally use "q" fo
On 21/08/2003 03:14, Michael Everson wrote:
At 10:59 +0100 2003-08-21, Paul James Cowie wrote:
the sign used for aleph (looks like a 3, but isn't, obviously)
Not encoded yet.
What are you using for ayin? If you are using U+02BF, you might consider
using U+02BE as an interim for aleph, and cons
At 10:59 +0100 2003-08-21, Paul James Cowie wrote:
the sign used for aleph (looks like a 3, but isn't, obviously)
Not encoded yet.
the sign used for yod (looks like a i with a right ring tick above it)
Encoding not determined yet.
the sign used interchangeably for q (looks like a k with a dot be
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