In line with what was decided for the EURO SIGN (20AC) vs. the EURO-CURRENCY
SIGN (20A0), I find it difficult to agree with Michael on the speculative
question of any possibly emerging new Greek currency.
Sincerely, Erkki
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Am 22.05.2012 um 00:22 schrieb Michael Everson:
If Greece ceases to use the euro and uses the drachma instead, and if they
create any kind of symbol for it, I think whatever glyph is devised will be
applied to the existing character.
This is exactly what should be done with the Turkish
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Andreas Stötzner a...@signographie.de wrote:
Am 22.05.2012 um 00:22 schrieb Michael Everson:
If Greece ceases to use the euro and uses the drachma instead, and if they
create any kind of symbol for it, I think whatever glyph is devised will be
applied to the
On Mon, 21 May 2012 17:07:33 -0700
Markus Scherer markus@gmail.com wrote:
In principle, it's straightforward: Lowercase and uppercase follow
Unicode (UCD) case properties. We distinguish an intermediate mixed
case for titlecase characters and mixed-case contractions. I believe
we also
On 22 May 2012, at 01:47, Doug Ewell wrote:
I think Peter was talking about the Turkish lira sign, not the Greek drachma
sign.
My mistake.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
On 22 May 2012, at 06:51, Erkki I Kolehmainen wrote:
In line with what was decided for the EURO SIGN (20AC) vs. the EURO-CURRENCY
SIGN (20A0), I find it difficult to agree with Michael on the speculative
question of any possibly emerging new Greek currency.
The ECU was not really the same
On 22 May 2012, at 06:13, Asmus Freytag wrote:
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
On 22 May 2012, at 08:11, Andreas Stötzner wrote:
Am 22.05.2012 um 00:22 schrieb Michael Everson:
If Greece ceases to use the euro and uses the drachma instead, and if they
create any kind of symbol for it, I think whatever glyph is devised will be
applied to the existing character.
This
I always wondered about the strange Drachma glyph in the standard: a
Latin script D connected to a greek rho.
What you identify as a Latin script D is probably also a Greek script
D. cf. also the Cyrillic script D, which coincides with the Latin, even
though the roman (and even printed
On Sun, 20 May 2012, Michael Everson wrote:
- kh with *continuous* underline (romanization of U+0959) ?
No. Whose romanization is that?
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/hindi.pdf
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stone-catend/trimain3.htm
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Richard Wordingham
richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2012 17:07:33 -0700
Markus Scherer markus@gmail.com wrote:
In principle, it's straightforward: Lowercase and uppercase follow
Unicode (UCD) case properties. We distinguish an
From: Shriramana Sharma [mailto:samj...@gmail.com]
Any reason why the glyph of the current existing character 20A4 ₤ LIRA SIGN
could not have been changed instead? The glyph is similar to that of 00A3 £
POUND SIGN, and 20A4 was *anyway* not used in favour of 00A3...
In addition to Asmus'
On 5/22/2012 2:22 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
On 22 May 2012, at 06:51, Erkki I Kolehmainen wrote:
In line with what was decided for the EURO SIGN (20AC) vs. the EURO-CURRENCY
SIGN (20A0), I find it difficult to agree with Michael on the speculative
question of any possibly emerging new Greek
On 5/22/2012 2:22 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
On 22 May 2012, at 06:13, Asmus Freytag wrote:
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.
On 5/22/2012 2:23 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
On 22 May 2012, at 08:11, Andreas Stötzner wrote:
Am 22.05.2012 um 00:22 schrieb Michael Everson:
If Greece ceases to use the euro and uses the drachma instead, and if they
create any kind of symbol for it, I think whatever glyph is devised will be
This came out of an offline discussion, but I answered this in some
detail and think it's useful to have this associated with the discussion
on the list.
A./
On 5/22/2012 12:40 AM, Andreas Stötzner wrote:
Am 22.05.2012 um 07:13 schrieb Asmus Freytag:
There is an early precedent, going
On Tue, 22 May 2012 08:33:43 -0700
Markus Scherer markus@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Richard Wordingham
richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2012 17:07:33 -0700
Markus Scherer markus@gmail.com wrote:
I can dig up the ICU code that
Am 22.05.2012 um 22:36 schrieb Asmus Freytag:
This came out of an offline discussion, but I answered this in some
detail and think it's useful to have this associated with the discussion
on the list.
A./
– it should have gone to the list, my fault –.
On 5/22/2012 12:40 AM, Andreas
On May 22, 2012, at 08:18, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Any reason why the glyph of the current existing character 20A4 ₤ LIRA
SIGN could not have been changed instead? The glyph is similar to that
of 00A3 £ POUND SIGN, and 20A4 was *anyway* not used in favour of
00A3, so it's not as if any other
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On May 23, 2012 4:02 AM, Andreas Stötzner a...@signographie.de wrote:
For the ₤ we can define EXACTLY what it is: a scriptive capital Latin L
with a double crossbar, in this very combination standing in for the term
“Lira” (derived from Latin “libra”), meaning a
On 5/22/2012 4:10 PM, Benjamin M Scarborough wrote:
(Personally, I don't understand the current hubbub about inventing new
currency signs, but whatever.) —Ben Scarborough
Currency symbol envy, pure and simple.
The Euro started it - it was intended to challenge pound and dollar,
that was
How about using U+3082? ?
?
~mark
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