Re: comma ellipses

On 10/6/2019 10:59 PM, David Starner via Unicode wrote: I still see the encoding of the original ellipsis as a mistake, probably for compatibility with some older standard that included it because the system wasn't smart enough to intelligently handle "..." as ellip

Re: comma ellipses

Now you are introducing research - that kills all the fun . . . (oops , , , ) A./ On 10/6/2019 10:39 PM, Tex wrote: Just for additional info on the subject: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/05/linguist-gretchen-mcculloch-interview-because-internet-book “…I’ve been spending a fair

Re: comma ellipses

I still see the encoding of the original ellipsis as a mistake, probably for compatibility with some older standard that included it because the system wasn't smart enough to intelligently handle "..." as ellipsis. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.

RE: comma ellipses

Just for additional info on the subject: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/oct/05/linguist-gretchen-mcculloch-interview-because-internet-book “…I’ve been spending a fair bit of time recently with the comma ellipsis, which is three commas (,,,) instead of dot-dot-dot. I’ve been looki

Re: comma ellipses

On 10/6/2019 8:21 PM, Garth Wallace via Unicode wrote: It’s deliberately incorrect for humorous effect. It gets used, but making it “official” would almost defeat the purpose. Well then it should encode a "typograp

Re: comma ellipses

It’s deliberately incorrect for humorous effect. It gets used, but making it “official” would almost defeat the purpose. On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 5:02 PM Asmus Freytag via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > On 10/6/2019 4:05 PM, Tex via Unicode wrote: > > Now that comma ellipses (,,,) are a th

Re: comma ellipses

On 10/6/2019 4:05 PM, Tex via Unicode wrote: Now that comma ellipses (,,,) are a thing (at least on social media) do we need a character proposal?   Asking for a friend,,, J   tex

comma ellipses

Now that comma ellipses (,,,) are a thing (at least on social media) do we need a character proposal? Asking for a friend,,, J tex

Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

Yes; it is now available as L2/19-348 . On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 11:03 PM Asmus Freytag (c) wrote: > Have you submitted that response as a UTC document? > A./ > > On 10/6/2019 2:08 PM, Cibu wrote: > > Thanks for addressing this. Here is

Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

On 10/6/2019 11:57 AM, 梁海 Liang Hai wrote: Folks, (Microsoft Peter and Andrew, search for “Windows” in the document.) (Asmus, in the document there’s a section 5, /ICANN RZ-LGR situation/—let me know if there’s some news.) The issue, as it affects domain names, has been brought to the author

Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

Have you submitted that response as a UTC document? A./ On 10/6/2019 2:08 PM, Cibu wrote: Thanks for addressing this. Here is my response: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K6L82VRmCGc9Fb4AOitNk4MT7Nu4V8aKUJo_1mW5X1o/ In summary, my take is: The sequence for ൻ്റ (<>) should not be legitim

Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

Thanks for addressing this. Here is my response: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K6L82VRmCGc9Fb4AOitNk4MT7Nu4V8aKUJo_1mW5X1o/ In summary, my take is: The sequence for ൻ്റ (<>) should not be legitimized as an alternate encoding; but should be recognized as a prevailing non-standard legacy enc

Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

Folks, (Microsoft Peter and Andrew, search for “Windows” in the document.) (Asmus, in the document there’s a section 5, ICANN RZ-LGR situation—let me know if there’s some news.) This is a pretty straightforward document about the notoriously problematic encoding of Malayalam . I always wanted