William Overington wrote:
> the Unicode Consortium has not, as far as I am aware, made any
> statement as to whether it will or will not consider again the
> matter of ligatures
Read and be enlightened:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/ligature_digraph.html#3
Everything it says about languag
The published Unicode charts show for U+019D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH
LEFT HOOK a typeform shaped like N with a hooked leg extending from the
left stem (let's call this the left-hook-N shape). There is another
typeform used, shaped like a large n with a hooked leg extending from the
left stem
On 06/04/2002 02:52:57 PM Peter_Constable wrote:
>On 06/04/2002 02:39:15 PM "James Kass" wrote:
>
>>How did the practice of using the apostrophe to represent the glottal
stop
>>originate? Was it because the writing system originally called for the
>>U+02C0 and the apostrophe was visually simila
I have seen two different typeforms used for U+028B: the one used in the
charts has a slanted stroke on the left with an sharp corner at the bottom
(let's call this the hook-v shape), and the other has a vertical stroke on
the left with a rounded transition into the righthand stroke at the bottom
On 06/04/2002 02:39:15 PM "James Kass" wrote:
>How did the practice of using the apostrophe to represent the glottal stop
>originate? Was it because the writing system originally called for the
>U+02C0 and the apostrophe was visually similar and readily accessible?
The glottal stop has been wr
Peter Constable wrote,
> An interesting addendum: in recent interaction with one of my colleagues in
> Africa, after recommending that they use U+02BC to represent glottal stop
> and ejective stops, he asked if they could either have a glyph variant that
> is straight or else use something like
Tuesday, June 4, 2002
Does anyone have a copy of the printed proceedings of the recent
International Unicode Conference held in Dublin that they would be willing
to part with? I could afford U.S. postage costs. Only the CD version is
available from the s
Adam asked:
> How many characters does the current version of the Unicode Standard
> enumerate?
95,156.
>
> BTW: I think this information would be useful if it were always included in
> the summary of earch revision.
Agreed. The total was listed in Unicode 3.1 (94,140), and you could
get the
On 06/04/2002 05:13:09 AM Peter_Constable wrote:
>I understand. I'm not arguing at this point that the combining classes
>should be changed (though I would were it a possibility) -- if you look at
>my earlier post in this thread, you'll see that I explained to Khun
Samphan
>that this is not a po
Please find attached a .gif file showing the way that the U+E707 code
displayed when I received it here in England, using Outlook Express upon a
Windows 95 platform. This is as a contribution to the documentation of The
Respectfully Experiment for the Unicode archive.
The golden ligatures collec
>> I then formatted the text in PowerPoint to 200 points, italic and green.
>>
>> So, it appears that SC UniPad used in conjunction with Word and
PowerPoint can be used to prepare elegant presentations in the languages of
the world. Wow!
SC UniPad provides excellent inputting facilities for Unico
On 06/03/2002 05:56:38 PM Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>Peter,
>The problem, of course, is that not all eventualities could be
>foreseen at the time the decisions had to be made -- when normalization
>and Unicode 3.0 were looming...
>So hindsight is 20/20. But at the time, the editors and participa
Shlomi Tal wrote:
> Microsoft Windows can handle text in at least one of three modes:
>
> 1. 8-bit stream with 256-character repertoire
As Michka Kaplan already said, "ANSI mode" can also be a DBCS code page.
> 2. 16-bit stream with 65536-character repertoire
This should be split in two separa
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