Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-29 Thread William_J_G Overington
Responding to Mark E. Shoulson: As was pointed out to me, essentially what you are saying is you reject my premise that one size does not fit all. Well, I do not know where that came from, but no, I do not reject that premise. There is plain text, there is HTML, there is XML. HTML is

Aw: Re: Bunny hill symbol, used in America for signaling ski pistes for novices

2015-05-29 Thread Jörg Knappen
From the description of the symbol it looks like a geometric shape. I think it is worth to be encoded as a geometric shape (TWO BLACK DIAMONDS VERTICALLY STACKED or something like this) with a note * bunny hill. It may have (r find in future) other uses. --Jrg Knappen Gesendet:Donnerstag,

KPS 9566 mappings (was Re: Arrow dingbats)

2015-05-29 Thread Andrew West
As someone who supports opening of KPS 9566 encoded files in my software (BabelPad), I am interested in those characters proposed by DPRK (http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/Docs/n2374.pdf) that were not accepted for encoding but which are still in the latest version of the DPRK standard, KPS

Re: Unicode of Death

2015-05-29 Thread Shervin Afshar
Ask Siri to read unread messages. Siri saves the day :). ↪ Shervin On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Alolita Sharma alolita.sha...@gmail.com wrote: Seems like we may see a temporary fix for iOS.

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-29 Thread William_J_G Overington
Responding to Philippe Verdy: There's no advantage because what you want to create is effectively another markup language with its own syntax (but requiring new obscure characters that most applications and users will not be able to interpret and render correctly in the way intended by you,

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-29 Thread Leo Broukhis
The format that I am suggesting would allow the image for a non-standard emoji character to be included in a text message, with the image located at the correct place in the text. A more common occurrence is the need to include a non-standard character in a text message, be it a ski piste

Re: Unicode of Death

2015-05-29 Thread Alolita Sharma
Seems like we may see a temporary fix for iOS. http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-issues-temporary-siri-workaround-iphone-crash-unicode-text-message-bug-2015-5 Best, Alolita On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com wrote: Not the first time unicode crashes

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-29 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com wrote: There's no advantage because what you want to create is effectively another markup language with its own syntax (but requiring new obscure characters that most applications and users will not be able to interpret and

Some questions about Unicode's CJK Unified Ideograph

2015-05-29 Thread gfb hjjhjh
Hello, I am new to this maillist and have some questions about unicode that i am looking for answers or guide to answer. Can anyone provide me some information regrading any of those questions below or point out where should I find out answers to these questions instead? 1. I have seen a chinese

Re: Unicode of Death

2015-05-29 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Geez Philippe, It was tounge in cheek. A. On Saturday, 30 May 2015, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: 2015-05-28 23:36 GMT+02:00 Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com: Not the first time unicode crashes things. There was the google chrome bug on osx that crashed the tab for any

Re: [Unicode] Re: Some questions about Unicode's CJK Unified Ideograph

2015-05-29 Thread suzuki toshiya
Hi, Please let me ask a slightly off-topic question, 䛩 = ⿰言亞 (not ⿰言亜) is coded at U+46E9. Of course, the unification between 亞 vs 亜 is not applied basically, so the separated encoding of ⿰言亜 would be reasonable (if there is a requirement), but I want to know whether Vietnamese user community

Re: Some questions about Unicode's CJK Unified Ideograph

2015-05-29 Thread Ken Whistler
On 5/29/2015 5:20 PM, gfb hjjhjh wrote: 1. I have seen a chinese character ⿰言亜 from a Vietnamese dictionary NHAT DUNG THUONG DAM DICTIONARY** So, a.) In http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html , it show that CJK Extension E and F have already been accepted, but where can I check

Re: Unicode of Death

2015-05-29 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-05-28 23:36 GMT+02:00 Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com: Not the first time unicode crashes things. There was the google chrome bug on osx that crashed the tab for any syriac text. Unicode crashes things? Unicode has nothing to do in those crashes caused by bugs in applications

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-29 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-05-29 4:37 GMT+02:00 John idou...@gmail.com: Today the world goes very well with HTML(5) which is now the bext markup language for document (including for inserting embedded images that don’t require any external request” If I had a large document that reused a particular character