Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

2019-10-07 Thread 梁海 Liang Hai via Unicode
[Putting the public mailing list back to the recipient list.] Cibu, Thanks for your L2/19-348 (Response to L2/19-345). My comments: > I am curious to know the reference for the phonetic analysis described in > section ​A

Re: comma ellipses

2019-10-07 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Commas may be used instead of dots by users of French keyboards (it's easier to type the comma, when the dot/full stop requires pressing the SHIFT key). I may be wrong, but I've quire frequently seen commas or semicolons instead of dot/full stops under normal orthography. But the web and notably

Re: worldswritingsystems.org

2019-10-07 Thread Wáng Yifán via Unicode
A very comprehensive website, but a couple of details have come to my attention. - Bronze script: despite its traditional name, it's hard to say that it is a single consistent system (just jump to WP via your link). They are various "scripts" at best, only grouped by writing medium which was the

Re: comma ellipses

2019-10-07 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
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

Re: comma ellipses

2019-10-07 Thread Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode
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

Re: comma ellipses

2019-10-07 Thread David Starner via Unicode
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.