RE: New kana letters (was RE: Oriyan Language)

2001-06-06 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Kenneth Whistler wrote: > Because of their origin -- they are JIS X 0213 compatibility > characters. > They got into JIS X 0213 because they are used in a native Japanese > katakana-based phonetic transcription system for Ainu. That phonetic > transcription system starts with katakana and then ad

Re: New kana letters (was RE: Oriyan Language)

2001-06-05 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Thomas Chan asked: > > For new letters, see the yellow squares in: > [snip] > > http://www.unicode.org/charts/draftunicode32/U32-31F0.pdf > > Interesting. Why is the U+31F0 to U+31FF block currently named "Katakana > Phonetic Extensions"? Because of their origin -- they are JIS X 0213 compatib

Re: New kana letters (was RE: Oriyan Language)

2001-06-05 Thread Thomas Chan
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > 11 wrote: > > [...] if you look at the chart for hiragana, you see that > > they left space for four new kana, just in case somebody > > decided to invent new kana. [...] I think they're > > Both things, I think. > For new letters, see the yellow sq

Re: Oriyan Language

2001-06-05 Thread Antoine Leca
Hi, Noriaki Inouye wrote: > > Oriyan Language Ah! Something new! > Hello. I'm interseted in Oriya language a little. > I found a PDF file written in Oriya as follows: > http://www.wbtc.com/articles/bibles/oriya/oriya_nt/Ori40Mt.pdf > > I can see some kinds of u

RE: Oriyan Language

2001-06-05 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Noriaki Inouye wrote: > I found a PDF file written in Oriya as follows: > http://www.wbtc.com/articles/bibles/oriya/oriya_nt/Ori40Mt.pdf > > I can see some kinds of uniq ligatures on this file. > I think these are not designed in the fonts like Arial Unicode MS, > Lucida Sans Unicode,TITUS Bitstr

New kana letters (was RE: Oriyan Language)

2001-06-05 Thread Marco Cimarosti
11 wrote: > [...] if you look at the chart for hiragana, you see that > they left space for four new kana, just in case somebody > decided to invent new kana. [...] I think they're > > 1. to make the columns come out even > and > 2. in case someone comes up with new letters Both things, I

RE: Oriyan Language

2001-06-05 Thread
いのうえさんへ Those grey (or gray, or whatever) squares らららららららら Aren't those just for unassigned characters? You see, this was designed by computer people, who just LOVE multiples of 16. So if you look at the chart for hiragana, you see that they left space for fo

Oriyan Language

2001-06-04 Thread Noriaki Inouye
Oriyan Language Hello. I'm interseted in Oriya language a little. I found a PDF file written in Oriya as follows: http://www.wbtc.com/articles/bibles/oriya/oriya_nt/Ori40Mt.pdf I can see some kinds of uniq ligatures on this file. I think these are not designed in the fonts like Arial Unico