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Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 7:27 AM
To: Unicode List
Subject: Re: Help with Greek special casing
Yes, that was filed as a bug, and will be fixed the next time we update the
case mappings. We are right in the middle of the Unicode 3.1 release, so
that will be coming sometime later.
Mark
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Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 00:11
Subject: RE: Help with Greek special casing
> At 09:56 -0800 2001-03-01, Carl W. Brown wrote:
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> >It looks like the Unicode TR 21 special casing rules for the Greek final
> >sigma are not quite right.
>
At 09:56 -0800 2001-03-01, Carl W. Brown wrote:
>It looks like the Unicode TR 21 special casing rules for the Greek final
>sigma are not quite right.
>
>The final sigma in modern Greek should only be used at the end of a word
>including the case where separate words are joined with hard hyphens.
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From: Nick Nicholas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 8:37 AM
To: Unicode List
Subject: RE: Help with Greek special casing
>Maybe in might be clearer to ask if there are any cases where you use the
>final sigma form where it is not the last letter in
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>Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 10:53 PM
>To: Unicode List
>Subject: Re: Help with Greek special casing
>On the latter, yes in some 19th century typographical traditions, where the
>final sigma is used to differentiate the prefix pros- from pro-; e.g.
>you'll se
>Nick,
>If you have a lowercase sigma in the middle of the word followed by a
>diacritic is it final;
>sigma, hacek, some other letter.
No, sir. And medial sigma-diacritic is far more frequent than a sigma
having a diacritic word-finally.
Nick Nicholas, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. [EMA
At 20:28 -0800 2001-02-25, Patrick T. Rourke wrote:
>Don't know what the Unicode rules are, but the answer is no. The final
>sigma form is not used if the sigma is in a medial position in the word but
>at the end of the line (e.g., when it occurs at the point of hyphenation in
>a hyphenated word
Carl Brown asked:
> It is final when followed by a hyphen or combining diacritical mark?
Patrick Rourke answered:
> Don't know what the Unicode rules are, but the answer is no. The final
> sigma form is not used if the sigma is in a medial position in the word
but
> at the end of the line (e.g.
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Subject: Re: Help with Greek special casing
Carl Brown asked:
>"If a mapping is marked by FINAL, use it when the character is not followed
>by a cased character.
>It is final when followed by a hyphen or combining diacritical mark? Can
>you have a final sigma in the middle o
Greek special casing
Carl Brown asked:
>"If a mapping is marked by FINAL, use it when the character is not followed
>by a cased character.
>It is final when followed by a hyphen or combining diacritical mark? Can
>you have a final sigma in the middle of a word?
On the latter,
Carl Brown asked:
>"If a mapping is marked by FINAL, use it when the character is not followed
>by a cased character.
>It is final when followed by a hyphen or combining diacritical mark? Can
>you have a final sigma in the middle of a word?
On the latter, yes in some 19th century typographical
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Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 10:30 PM
Subject: Help with Greek special casing
> From UTR 21.
>
> "If a mapping is marked by FINAL, use it when the character is not
followed
> by a cased character.
>
> It is final when followed by a hyphen or combining diacri
>From UTR 21.
"If a mapping is marked by FINAL, use it when the character is not followed
by a cased character.
It is final when followed by a hyphen or combining diacritical mark? Can
you have a final sigma in the middle of a word?
Carl
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