20AF DRACHMA SIGN is our friend.
Peter
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From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf
Of Andreas Prilop
Sent: May-19-12 8:42 AM
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Unicode 6.2 to Support the Turkish Lira Sign
On Tue, 15 May 2012,
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Andreas Prilop
prilop4...@trashmail.net wrote:
Will it also include U+20BB NEW DRACHMA SIGN ?
I'm sorry but I don't see a proposal for U+20BB NEW DRACHMA SIGN in
the register. Did I miss anything?
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Shriramana Sharma
2012-05-21 20:26, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Andreas Prilop
prilop4...@trashmail.net wrote:
Will it also include U+20BB NEW DRACHMA SIGN ?
I'm sorry but I don't see a proposal for U+20BB NEW DRACHMA SIGN in
the register. Did I miss anything?
I think you (and
Maybe you missed rumors about Greek being kicked out out the euro zone
soon, and thus being forced to introduce a new currency (or to
reintroduce the drachma, whatever that means). To be sure there won't
be a proposal for a new drachma sign before the Greek authorites have
made a definite
That should have been rumors about /Greece/ being kicked out /of/ the
euro zone of course.
* Charlie Ruland rul...@luckymail.com [2012-05-21 20:24]:
Maybe you missed rumors about Greek being kicked out out the euro zone
soon, and thus being forced to introduce a new currency (or to
From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf
Of Jukka K. Korpela
I think you (and Peter) missed a joke
I can't speak for Sharma, but as for me...
they will hardly want to use the old drachma sign (₯, U+20AF)—it’s very
old-fashioned and not in line with
Am 21.05.2012 um 22:48 schrieb Peter Constable:
they will hardly want to use the old drachma sign (₯, U+20AF)—it’s very
old-fashioned and not in line with currency symbols in general.
Well, it's available and not being used for anything else. And it's probably
even well supported
Hello Unicode Folks,
U+01C3 looks like an 'Exclamation Mark' and it is categorized as 'Letter
Other'.
U+02D0 looks like two inverted triangles and it is categorized as 'Letter
Modifier'.
These code points being categorized as they are would not prevent them in an
IDN. However, similar
It is very unlikely that the standards bodies will let the Greek National Body
add a different Drachma sign to the standard. They never used the one they
have.
I am the person who wrote the proposal to encode the current character on
behalf of the Greek NB, and their original draft used a
What are the definitions of upper and lower case for the caseFirst
tailoring for the UCA and for LDML? I can't find any obvious
definition.
My suspicion is that they are defined by assignment of the DUCET
tertiary weights, UTS#10 Issue 23 (Version 6.1.0) Section 7.2.
Although these largely
There may or may not have been elements of propaganda involved. And the design
may or may not be poor. None of that changes the reality that the symbol in
question _has_ started to be used in commerce, that government agencies are
starting to expect ICTs to support the symbol, and hence that
From: Chigurupati, Nagesh nchigurupati_at_verisign.com
Hello Unicode Folks,
U+01C3 looks like an 'Exclamation Mark' and it is categorized as 'Letter
Other'.
U+02D0 looks like two inverted triangles and it is categorized as 'Letter
Modifier'.
These code points being categorized as
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Richard Wordingham
richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote:
What are the definitions of upper and lower case for the caseFirst
tailoring for the UCA and for LDML? I can't find any obvious
definition.
I am having trouble finding a published definition too. I
There may or may not have been elements of propaganda involved. And the
design may or may not be poor. None of that changes the reality that the
symbol in question _has_ started to be used in commerce,
That's not true. The character ELOT asked to be encoded was never used. Or not
for
On 5/21/2012 4:37 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
Again, even the interpretation of uppercase in terms of weights is not
certain, for the ISO/IEC 14651:2007 example of a tailoring for
uppercase first does not adjust the collation elements with a tertiary
weight of 1C, although they are listed as
I think Peter was talking about the Turkish lira sign, not the Greek drachma
sign.
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell
From: Michael Everson
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 18:14
To: Andreas Stötzner ; unicode Unicode Discussion
Subject: RE: Unicode 6.2
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Peter Constable peter...@microsoft.com wrote:
None of that changes the reality that the symbol in question _has_ started
to be used in commerce, that government agencies are starting to expect ICTs
to support the symbol, and hence that implementers are for
On Mon, 21 May 2012 17:43:27 -0700
Ken Whistler k...@sybase.com wrote:
For example, when caseFirst is set to
uppercase, ICU orders U+1D34 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL H before
U+0068 LATIN SMALL LETTER H, but anomalously order U+A7F8 MODIFIER
LETTER CAPITAL H WITH STROKE*after* U+0127 LATIN
On Sat, 19 May 2012 01:12:17 +0100
Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote:
This will then work for DUCET
6.1.0, work for Danish, and work for my mischievous 0302 COMBINING
CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT+0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G contraction.
There is a very similar rule in CLDR for
Before this discussion deep ends.
There is an early precedent, going back to the Euro sign, of Unicode
adding a new character instead of repurposing any existing character
that may seem to be unused.
The principle there is, that until a particular currency gets actually
created (or a
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