Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-10-03 Thread Michael Everson
At 12:28 -0500 2001-10-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be possible to add a new character DASH WITH DIAERESIS as long as it does not have any decomposition. Opening the door to lots of nice dictionary things. SWUNG DASH is also sorely missing, but it will be coming up in some FUPA

Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001 (derives from Egyptian Transliteration Characters)

2001-10-02 Thread William Overington
Maybe someday some of the characters might be promoted to become regular unicode characters by the Unicode Consortium, maybe not. Not likely. Unicode refuses to encode more ligatures and precomposed characters. Is there an official Unicode Consortium statement that states, for the record,

Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001 (derives from Egyptian Transliteration Characters)

2001-10-02 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: William Overington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there an official Unicode Consortium statement that states, for the record, that the Unicode Consortium refuses to encode more ligatures and precomposed characters please? I think it is quite clearly stated that the ones that ARE present are

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-10-02 Thread Peter_Constable
At 09:13 -0500 2001-09-26, David Starner wrote: The problem is, I have a couple of German texts that I plan to transcribe, where all I need is HYPHEN WITH DIARESIS. So, you type HYPHEN or EN DASH and then COMBINING DIAERESIS ABOVE. It isn't obvious to me that this is the correct solution:

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-10-02 Thread Peter_Constable
3. a capital and small glottal stop and reversed glottal stop For (2), (3), we would need a submission with documentation of usage. We do add capital/small versions of characters when there is sufficient evidence of their usage. This happens, for example, when an IPA is pressed into service in

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-09-30 Thread William Overington
The missing characters can be characterised as follows: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW When I saw this I remembered that there is a letter H with a line across it that is used in Maltese. I remembered this from seeing it in a catalogue of metal

RE: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001 (derives from Egyptian Transliteration Characters)

2001-09-30 Thread Carl W. Brown
PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001 (derives from Egyptian Transliteration Characters) In a recent thread entitled Egyptian Transliteration Characters, a request was made for various characters including the following

Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001 (derives from Egyptian Transliteration Characters)

2001-09-30 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 04:59:49PM +0100, William Overington wrote: In view of these various situations and possibly various others that people might like to post into this thread, I write to put forward the suggestion that as a discussion on this list various users of the unicode

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Michael Everson
At 15:05 -0700 2001-09-26, §§Û§Š§¶§Í§Â§¶§½ wrote: Is this the same Unicode that encodes characters and not glyphs? Yes, it is, and I am not certain that Mark's strong suspicion is correct because I have seen a lot of data. But I'll be asking Egyptologists. 1. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Spencer_Tasker
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Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-09-27 Thread Mark Davis
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Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-09-26 Thread Spencer_Tasker
Hello One and All, Before setting off down the path of submitting a couple of new characters I would like to run them past you for your consideration. If I have ben blind as a bat and these characters already exist please correct me in my error. But first, a little context... I am an

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-09-26 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:42:32AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The missing characters can be characterised as follows: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW I model these descriptions on those of 1E0E, 1E6E, 1E2A, 1E24 (at least insofar as the

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-09-26 Thread Mark Davis
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 12:42 AM Subject: Egyptian Transliteration Characters Hello One and All, Before setting off down the path of submitting a couple of new characters I would like to run them past you for your consideration. If I have ben blind as a bat and these characters

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-09-26 Thread Michael Everson
At 07:20 -0700 2001-09-26, Mark Davis wrote: 2. something that looks like a right half ring with a tail egyptologists have represented it with something that looks like two right half rings stacked on top of each other. 3. a capital and small glottal stop and reversed glottal stop For (2),

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-09-26 Thread Michael Everson
At 09:13 -0500 2001-09-26, David Starner wrote: The problem is, I have a couple of German texts that I plan to transcribe, where all I need is HYPHEN WITH DIARESIS. So, you type HYPHEN or EN DASH and then COMBINING DIAERESIS ABOVE. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography ***

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-09-26 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2001-09-26 8:09:18 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is, I have a couple of German texts that I plan to transcribe, where all I need is HYPHEN WITH DIARESIS. So, you type HYPHEN or EN DASH and then COMBINING DIAERESIS ABOVE. I think that was

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

2001-09-26 Thread Mark Davis
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 7:50 AM Subject: Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters At 07:20 -0700 2001-09-26, Mark Davis wrote: 2. something that looks like a right half ring with a tail egyptologists have represented it with something

Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters

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