Re: UAX #9: applicability of higher-level protocols to bidi plaintext

2018-07-18 Thread philip chastney via Unicode
On Tue, 17/7/18, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: > Subject: Re: UAX #9: applicability of higher-level protocols to bidi plaintext > To: unicode@unicode.org > Date: Tuesday, 17 July, 2018, 3:30 AM > An interesting ambiguity is "!True" v. "True!

Re: A sketch with the best-known Swiss tongue twister

2018-03-10 Thread philip chastney via Unicode
it is not clear whether you are quoting from some agreed standard, quoting from some other authority, or constructing a classification of your own whatever the classification, it should be descriptive, and it is best not to be too pedantic, because practice can vary from region to region, from i

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

2018-01-24 Thread philip chastney via Unicode
OK, he's no technocrat, but try googling "tony blair kazakhstan" and in case anybody's wondering what Nazarbayev got for his five million pounds, for a partial explanation, check out https://www.rt.com/uk/340035-blair-strike-kazakhstan-massacre/ it is not known if Blair profferred any ad

Re: superscripts & subscripts for science/mathematics?

2018-01-23 Thread philip chastney via Unicode
. . . and do Russians still do mathematics? I guess not, since there is no Cyrillic counterpart to the AMS extensions also, chemists sometimes like to put a superscript over a subscript will that still have to be done using rich text? or maybe we need another extension . . . ? /phil --