2012/5/17 Richard Wordingham :
> On Thu, 17 May 2012 20:41:19 +0200
> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
>> Is it really the Latin letter x in question there, if it's use is to
>> be a visible placeholder to hold diacritic vowel marks ? The Latin
>> letter has the problem of is dual case (not found in the La
, 2012 1:00 PM
> To: verd...@wanadoo.fr
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: Mark-Driven Script Categorisation
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2012 20:41:19 +0200
> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
> > Is it really the Latin letter x in question there, if it's use is to
> > be
So all this looks like a legacy, coming from ages where Unicode was
not very developed. I wonder what is the effective origin (and time)
of this Lao keyboard. If it comes from a mechanical typewriter layout,
it would be interesting to see how the glyph looked like : did it
really have serifs (like
f
Of Richard Wordingham
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:00 PM
To: verd...@wanadoo.fr
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Mark-Driven Script Categorisation
On Thu, 17 May 2012 20:41:19 +0200
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> Is it really the Latin letter x in question there, if it's use is to
&
On Thu, 17 May 2012 23:16:10 +0200
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> > OK, OK So this looks like there's an 'x'-like letter in the Lao
> > script. But why should it be the Latin letter with all its allowed
> > variations, its dual case, its cursive joining, its serifs ? May be
> > the letter x was chos
On Thu, 17 May 2012 22:56:51 +0200
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> Oh well... then the next time we'll discuss about including the Han
> sinograms in the Latin script because we find discussions in English
> about these sinograms. Then we'll start mixing all scripts together as
> if they were all in the
2012/5/17 Philippe Verdy :
> 2012/5/17 Richard Wordingham :
>> On Thu, 17 May 2012 22:14:55 +0200
>> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>>
>>> It has x just like the rest of the Basic Latin alphabet, in one of its
>>> input modes.
>>
>> Which keyboard layout are you looking at? When present, it's usually
>> g
2012/5/17 Richard Wordingham :
> On Thu, 17 May 2012 22:14:55 +0200
> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
>> It has x just like the rest of the Basic Latin alphabet, in one of its
>> input modes.
>
> Which keyboard layout are you looking at? When present, it's usually
> got by pressing and the key used for
2012/5/17 Richard Wordingham :
> On Wed, 16 May 2012 21:46:17 -0700
> Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
>
>> No, it's not.
>>
>> Including x in Lao for some pedagogical (I'm guessing) purpose is
>> completely out of scope. That'd be like including π in Latin because
>> it sometimes occurs in the middle of Engli
On Thu, 17 May 2012 22:14:55 +0200
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> It has x just like the rest of the Basic Latin alphabet, in one of its
> input modes.
Which keyboard layout are you looking at? When present, it's usually
got by pressing and the key used for U+0EAD LAO LETTER O. It's
normally the onl
On Wed, 16 May 2012 21:46:17 -0700
Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
> No, it's not.
>
> Including x in Lao for some pedagogical (I'm guessing) purpose is
> completely out of scope. That'd be like including π in Latin because
> it sometimes occurs in the middle of English text.
No, it's more like including D
2012/5/17 Doug Ewell :
> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>> But today it's not difficult to type × instead because it is very well
>> supported in many fonts and present in many legacy 8-bit encodings.
>
> I'm completely confused as to how font support and legacy encoding
> support implies keyboard support.
2012/5/17 Richard Wordingham :
> On Thu, 17 May 2012 20:41:19 +0200
> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
>> Is it really the Latin letter x in question there, if it's use is to
>> be a visible placeholder to hold diacritic vowel marks ? The Latin
>> letter has the problem of is dual case (not found in the La
On Thu, 17 May 2012 20:41:19 +0200
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> Is it really the Latin letter x in question there, if it's use is to
> be a visible placeholder to hold diacritic vowel marks ? The Latin
> letter has the problem of is dual case (not found in the Lao script,
> and a too large variation a
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> But today it's not difficult to type × instead because it is very well
> supported in many fonts and present in many legacy 8-bit encodings.
I'm completely confused as to how font support and legacy encoding
support implies keyboard support. Most keyboard layouts don't su
2012/5/17 Richard Wordingham :
> On Wed, 16 May 2012 15:32:31 -0700
> Ken Whistler wrote:
>
>> On 5/16/2012 2:54 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
>> > I have been wondering if U+0078 LATIN
>> > SMALL LETTER X should be made common script because of its use for
>> > displaying Lao vowels, but perhap
On Wed, 16 May 2012 15:32:31 -0700
Ken Whistler wrote:
> On 5/16/2012 2:54 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > I have been wondering if U+0078 LATIN
> > SMALL LETTER X should be made common script because of its use for
> > displaying Lao vowels, but perhaps the principle of separation of
> > scri
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