Re: VS: [somewhat off topic] straw poll

2015-09-11 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
I suggest that you create a proposal for the UTC so that it can go on record; I suspect it will get a favorable reception. Mark *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: > William_J_G Overington

RE: VS: [somewhat off topic] straw poll

2015-09-11 Thread Doug Ewell
Mark Davis  wrote: > I suggest that you create a proposal for the UTC so that it can go on > record; I suspect it will get a favorable reception. I assume this was not meant for me personally. I have no authority to speak for UTC. The closest I ever got to that was when I got UTN #14

RE: VS: [somewhat off topic] straw poll

2015-09-11 Thread Doug Ewell
Rick McGowan wrote: > In section 1.1, page 3: > > *Note, however, that the Unicode Standard does not encode > idiosyncratic, personal, novel, or private-use characters, nor does it > encode logos or graphics.* Is there a statement anywhere about entities that aren't characters in any sense,

Re: VS: [somewhat off topic] straw poll

2015-09-11 Thread William_J_G Overington
Erkki I. Kolehmainen wrote: > I, for one, don't see any reason to lift the moratorium on that particular > worn-out topic. One reason is that there is the new idea of using the base character followed by a sequence of tag characters technique to represent each localizable sentence. Thus only

Re: VS: [somewhat off topic] straw poll

2015-09-11 Thread Daniel Bünzli
Le vendredi, 11 septembre 2015 à 18:37, Mark Davis ☕️ a écrit : > BTW, the only way I see anything from Overington is when a message is quoted > by someone else, since I long ago filtered those out of my email inbox. When I read this message [1] (which I disagree with but that's another issue)

Re: VS: [somewhat off topic] straw poll

2015-09-11 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wrote: > If Unicode Inc. chooses to impose a moratorium on discussing this > development in information technology then Unicode Inc. should say so > officially and post a policy document and not have this unfair > imposition of a moratorium by a person or persons unknown.

Re: VS: [somewhat off topic] straw poll

2015-09-11 Thread Rick McGowan
Doug, et al -- The primordial statement you're looking for is in TUS, Chapter 1 and has been there forever. See: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/ch01.pdf In section 1.1, page 3: *Note, however, that the Unicode Standard does not encode idiosyncratic, personal, novel, or

RE: VS: [somewhat off topic] straw poll

2015-09-11 Thread Peter Constable
Of Doug Ewell Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 11:11 AM To: Mark Davis ☕️ <m...@macchiato.com> Cc: Unicode Mailing List <unicode@unicode.org> Subject: RE: VS: [somewhat off topic] straw poll Mark Davis  wrote: > I suggest that you create a proposal for the UTC so that it can go

Re: VS: [somewhat off topic] straw poll

2015-09-11 Thread Sarasvati
Good morning everyone! This topic has probably now received enough attention, and thank you to all who have contributed. Let us please move along to something else. Everyone should now point their web browsers at the list policies and guidelines to refresh themselves: