Re: Fw: Latin Script Danda

2019-04-19 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 4/19/2019 6:57 PM, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: I don't know many modern fonts that display 007C as a broken glyph. In fact I haven't seen a broken line pipe glyph since the MS-DOS days. Nowadays we have 00A6 for that.

Re: Fw: Latin Script Danda

2019-04-19 Thread Shriramana Sharma via Unicode
I don't know many modern fonts that display 007C as a broken glyph. In fact I haven't seen a broken line pipe glyph since the MS-DOS days. Nowadays we have 00A6 for that.

Fw: Latin Script Danda

2019-04-19 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:30:32 +0100 From: Richard Wordingham To: Shriramana Sharma Subject: Re: Latin Script Danda On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:33:35 +0530 Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: > We are using the pipe character as it is readily available in our >

Re: Emoji Haggadah

2019-04-19 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
I cannot; definitely it requires first good knowldge of English (to find possible synonyms, plus phonetic approximations, including using abbreviatable words), and Hebrew culture (to guess names and the context). All this text looks completely random and makes no sense otherwise. Le mar. 16 avr.

Re: Script_extension Property of U+0310 Combining Candrabindu

2019-04-19 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:54:47 +0530 Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Or maybe the Grantha candrabindu can be used, since there is already > evidence for mixed usage of the scripts and nukta characters have been > encoded for Tamil usage in the Grantha block for this same reason > despite Grantha users

Re: Script_extension Property of U+0310 Combining Candrabindu

2019-04-19 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:36:16 +0530 Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: > On 4/19/19, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > wrote: > > That's a fair point. My problem is that someone is claiming of > > U+0310 that "Somewhere in the Unicode specifications is a footnote > > saying it is to be used

Re: Script_extension Property of U+0310 Combining Candrabindu

2019-04-19 Thread Shriramana Sharma via Unicode
On 4/19/19, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: > That's a fair point. My problem is that someone is claiming of > U+0310 that "Somewhere in the Unicode specifications is a footnote > saying it is to be used with Devanagari". Why would anyone want to use 0310 with any Indic script that

Re: Latin Script Danda

2019-04-19 Thread Shriramana Sharma via Unicode
We are using the pipe character as it is readily available in our favourite Latin script fonts. See for example: https://twitter.com/ShriramanaS/status/793480884116529152 It would be ideal for Sanskrit/Indic text in IAST/ISO to be displayable/printable using any common Latin font which is found