Re: Proposing mostly invisible characters

2019-09-12 Thread Henri Sivonen via Unicode
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 15:53 Christoph Päper via Unicode wrote: > ISHY/SIHY is especially useful for encoding (German) noun compounds in > wrapped titles, e.g. on product labeling, where hyphens are often > suppressed for stylistic reasons, e.g. orthographically correct > _Spargelsuppe_,

Re: Proposing mostly invisible characters

2019-09-12 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:53:45 +0200 (CEST) Christoph Päper via Unicode wrote: > Dear Unicoders > > There are some characters that have no precedent in existing > encodings and are also hard to attest directly from printed sources. > Can one still make a solid case for encoding those in Unicode?

Re: The native name of Tai Viet script and language(s)

2019-09-12 Thread r12a via Unicode
On 27/08/2019 07:33, Eli Zaretskii via Unicode wrote: Yes, it's an old and outdated text (Emacs is around since 1985, and supports multilingual text editing since 1997). Easy to fix, and I will fix it, but my main difficulty is with the text that uses the script itself, which is why I asked

Proposing mostly invisible characters

2019-09-12 Thread Christoph Päper via Unicode
Dear Unicoders There are some characters that have no precedent in existing encodings and are also hard to attest directly from printed sources. Can one still make a solid case for encoding those in Unicode? I am thinking of characters that are either invisible (most of the time) or can