Re: ISO 15924 : missing indication of support for Syriac variants

On 7/17/2019 6:03 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:54:52 +0200 Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: In fact the ligatures system for the "cursive" Egyptian Hieratic is so complex (and may also have its own variants show

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Re: ISO 15924 : missing indication of support for Syriac variants

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:54:52 +0200 Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > In fact the ligatures system for the "cursive" Egyptian Hieratic is so > complex (and may also have its own variants showing its progression > from Hieroglyphs to Demotic or Old Coptic), that probably Hieratic > should no long

Re: Removing accents and diacritics from a word

On 7/17/2019 11:25 AM, Sławomir Osipiuk wrote: “Transliteration”? Maybe more generic that what you’re looking for. Used for the process of producing the “machine readable zone” on passports: https://www.icao.int/publications/Documents/9303_p3_cons_en.pdf (see section 6, page 30) “Accent f

Re: ISO 15924 : missing indication of support for Syriac variants

But my concern is in fact valid as well for Egyptian Hieratic (considered in Chapter 14 to be "unified" with the Hieroglyphs, and being a cursive variant, currently not supported in any font because of the very complex set of ligatures this would require, and that may not even work properly with th

Re: Removing accents and diacritics from a word

On 7/17/2019 11:37 AM, Tex wrote: Asmus, are you including the case where an accented character maps to two unaccented characters? e.g. Å to AA or Ä to AE If that's covered by the same term; but it's not simple "typewriter/telegraph" fallback. *From:*Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@uni

Re: ISO 15924 : missing indication of support for Syriac variants

Sorry I misread (with an automated tool) an old dataset where these "3.0" versions were indicated in an incorrect form Le jeu. 18 juil. 2019 à 01:07, Philippe Verdy a écrit : > Note also that there are variants registered with Unicode versions (Age) > for symbols, even if they don't have any ass

Re: ISO 15924 : missing indication of support for Syriac variants

Note also that there are variants registered with Unicode versions (Age) for symbols, even if they don't have any assigned Unicode alias, but this is not a problem. 994 Zinh Code for inherited script codet pour écriture héritée Inherited 2009-02-23 995 *Zmth

ISO 15924 : missing indication of support for Syriac variants

The ISO 15924/RA reference page contains indication of support in Unicode for variants of various scripts such as Aran, Latf, Latg, Hanb, Hans, Hant:. 160 *Arab* Arabic arabe Arabic 1.1 2004-05-01 161 *Aran* Arabic (Nastaliq variant) arabe (variante nastalique) 1.1 2014-11-15 ... 503 *Hanb* Han wit

RE: Removing accents and diacritics from a word

Asmus, are you including the case where an accented character maps to two unaccented characters? e.g. Å to AA or Ä to AE From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 11:07 AM To: Norbert Lindenberg Cc: Unicode

RE: Removing accents and diacritics from a word

“Transliteration”? Maybe more generic that what you’re looking for. Used for the process of producing the “machine readable zone” on passports: https://www.icao.int/publications/Documents/9303_p3_cons_en.pdf (see section 6, page 30) “Accent folding” or “diacritic folding” is used in some pl

Re: Removing accents and diacritics from a word

On 7/17/2019 11:02 AM, Norbert Lindenberg wrote: “Misspelling”? Not helpful. Anybody have a serious suggestion? A./ On Jul 17, 2019, at 10:37, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: A question has come up in another context: Is there any linguistic term for describing the process of removin

Removing accents and diacritics from a word

A question has come up in another context: Is there any linguistic term for describing the process of removing accents and diacritics from a word to create its “base form”, e.g. São Tomé to Sao Tome? The linguistic term "string normalization" appear