Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-13 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
Le 12/02/2020 à 23:30, Michel Suignard a écrit : Interesting that a single character is creating so much feedback, but it is not the first time. Extrapolating from my own case, I guess it’s because hieroglyphs have a strong cultural significance — especially to people following unicode

Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-12 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
  Frédéric On Thu, 12 Feb 2020 19:12:14 +0100 Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode wrote: Dear Unicode list members (CC Michel Suignard),   the Unicode proposal L2/20-068 <https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20068-n5128-ext-hieroglyph.pdf>, “Revised draft for the encoding of an extended Egyp

Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-12 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
Dear Unicode list members (CC Michel Suignard),   the Unicode proposal L2/20-068 , “Revised draft for the encoding of an extended Egyptian Hieroglyphs repertoire, Groups A to N” (

Re: Proposal for BiDi in terminal emulators

2019-01-31 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
Le 31/01/2019 à 10:41, Egmont Koblinger a écrit : Hi, Personally, I think we should simply assume that complex script shaping is left to the terminal, and if the terminal cannot do that, then that's a restriction of working on a text terminal. I cannot read any of the Arabic, Syriac etc.

Re: Proposal for BiDi in terminal emulators

2019-01-30 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
Le 30/01/2019 à 14:36, Egmont Koblinger via Unicode a écrit : - It doesn't do Arabic shaping. In my recommendation I'm arguing that in this mode, where shuffling the characters is the task of the text editor and not the terminal, so should it be for Arabic shaping using presentation form

Re: wws dot org

2019-01-17 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
Thanks for this nice website ! Some feedback: Given the number of scripts in this period, I think that splitting 10c-19c in two (or even three) would be a good idea A finer unicode status would be nice

Re: Can NFKC turn valid UAX 31 identifiers into non-identifiers?

2018-06-07 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
Le 07/06/2018 à 18:01, Alastair Houghton a écrit : I appreciate that the upshot of the Anglicised world of software engineering is that native English speakers have an advantage, and those for whom Latin isn’t

Re: Can NFKC turn valid UAX 31 identifiers into non-identifiers?

2018-06-07 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
Le 06/06/2018 à 11:29, Alastair Houghton via Unicode a écrit : On 4 Jun 2018, at 20:49, Manish Goregaokar via Unicode wrote: The Rust community is considering adding non-ascii identifiers, which follow UAX #31 (XID_Start XID_Continue*, with tweaks). The proposal also asks for identifiers to

Re: metric for block coverage

2018-03-08 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
Hi !    I’ll just add two points to the various points raised in the previous conversation about block coverage : Le 17/02/2018 à 23:18, Adam Borowski via Unicode a écrit : Hi! As a part of Debian fonts team work, we're trying to improve fonts review: ways to organize them, add metadata,

Re: Internationalised Computer Science Exercises

2018-01-22 Thread Frédéric Grosshans via Unicode
Le 22/01/2018 à 17:39, Andre Schappo via Unicode a écrit : By way of example, one programming challenge I set to students a couple of weeks ago involves diacritics. Please see jsfiddle.net/coas/wda45gLp There is huge potential for some really