Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

2018-01-25 Thread Doug Ewell via Unicode
Philippe Verdy wrote: > I agree, and still you won't necessarily have to press a dead key to > have these characters, if you map one key where the Cyrillic letter > was > producing directly the character with its accent. [...] > > However, if you can type one key to produce one latin letter with i

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

2018-01-25 Thread Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode
My apologies for the typo. There's no excuse for misspelling someone's name (especially since I live in Switzerland, and type German every day). Thanks for calling my attention to it: the doc has been updated. Mark Mark On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 4:15 AM, Andrew West via Unicode < unicode@unicode.

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

2018-01-25 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Just a remark for fun: - You'll also note that this talk is all about the apostrophe, and if Kazakhstan wants to introduce it in 2019, that year will match exactly the code point U+2019 [ ’ ]... - This year 2018 is also the year to discuss and reverse the apostrophe decision, and it matches the cod

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

2018-01-25 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Such example shows that ignoring umlauts makes the document counterintuitive. Nobody is able to infer that "Paper" refers to a person here or if he actually meant a paper sheet/article... At least he should have written "Paeper" which would be more correct (if "Christoph Päper" is German, the umlau

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

2018-01-25 Thread Doug Ewell via Unicode
Philippe Verdy wrote: So there will be a new administrative jargon in Kazakhstan that people won't like, and outside the government, they'll continue using their exiosting keyboards [...] Newspapers and books will continue for a wihile being published in Cyrillic [...] Yes, it will be a mess.

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

2018-01-25 Thread Andrew West via Unicode
On 23 January 2018 at 00:55, James Kass via Unicode wrote: > > Regular American users simply don't type umlauts, period. Not even the president of the Unicode Consortium when referring to Christoph Päper: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18051-emoji-ad-hoc-resp.pdf Andrew