Ain

2002-12-19 Thread Doug Ewell
I just noticed, in the WG2 character charts for Amendment 2 of Part 1, that U+1D25 is called LATIN LETTER AIN but U+1D5C is MODIFIER LETTER SMALL AIN. Where did the word SMALL come from? All the other modifier letters are called CAPITAL or SMALL (or both) to denote the case of the underlying

Re: Precomposed Tibetan

2002-12-19 Thread Andrew C. West
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 01:48:05 -0800 (PST), Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote: Am I just clueless or it should be U+0308 instead of U+00A8? (Checks U0080.pdf...) Hm, even Homer dozed sometimes... :-) Oops !

Status of Unihan Mandarin readings?

2002-12-19 Thread Marco Cimarosti
I have tried to follow the discussion about the errors in field kMandarin of file Unihan.txt but, after a while, I lost my way with all those dictionary references... Could someone kindly make a short summary of the situation? Here are my biggest ???'s: - Are the errors really there? - Any

Re: Status of Unihan Mandarin readings?

2002-12-19 Thread Andrew C. West
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 04:58:08 -0800 (PST), Marco Cimarosti wrote: I have tried to follow the discussion about the errors in field kMandarin of file Unihan.txt but, after a while, I lost my way with all those dictionary references... Could someone kindly make a short summary of the

Re: Ain

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 23:23 -0800 2002-12-18, Doug Ewell wrote: I just noticed, in the WG2 character charts for Amendment 2 of Part 1, that U+1D25 is called LATIN LETTER AIN but U+1D5C is MODIFIER LETTER SMALL AIN. Where did the word SMALL come from? Oh, I probably pasted it in when making the names list. All

Re: h in Greek epigraphy

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Everson
Recently I saw a piece of epigraphical Greek, and while Latin h was written in the transliteration, the letter used in the actual Greek was ETA. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

RE: h in Greek epigraphy

2002-12-19 Thread David J. Perry
Scripsit Michael Everson: Recently I saw a piece of epigraphical Greek, and while Latin h was written in the transliteration, the letter used in the actual Greek was ETA. Yes; that is the whole point here. In all variants of the Greek alphabet except the Ionic, eta stood for the h sound

Re: Ain

2002-12-19 Thread Doug Ewell
Michael Everson everson at evertype dot com wrote: If U+1D25 is to be LATIN LETTER AIN -- not CAPITAL or SMALL -- then a more consistent name for U+1D5C would be MODIFIER LETTER AIN. You should have made that comment through your L2 before the last ballot closed. It is too late to change

23rd Internationalization and Unicode Conference - March 2003 - Prague, CzechRepublic

2002-12-19 Thread Lisa Moore
Calling all Unicoders...we are now ready for your registration for the Spring Unicode Conference in Prague! Take a look at the program, there's travel and hotel info available, as well. Hope you can join us as we expand the conference focus, renamed as the Internationalization and Unicode