ISO committees (from Re: Tag characters and localizable sentence technology (from Tag characters))

2015-06-12 Thread William_J_G Overington
In my post of 22 May 2015, reproduced below, is the following. ... and then the plain text encoding of a particular localizable sentence would be defined as being expressed as the LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE BASE CHARACTER character followed by the code for the localizable sentence specified in the

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-07 Thread Doug Ewell
Mark E. Shoulson mark at kli dot org wrote: Isn't this what webfonts are all about? You specify a font in the stylesheet, give it a URL, and your browser goes and downloads it and displays the text in it. That's great if you have a stylesheet, a URL, and a browser. HTML is fancy text, and

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-07 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-06-07 18:39 GMT+02:00 Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org: Mark E. Shoulson mark at kli dot org wrote: Isn't this what webfonts are all about? You specify a font in the stylesheet, give it a URL, and your browser goes and downloads it and displays the text in it. That's great if you have a

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-05 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 6/4/2015 17:03 , Chris wrote: This whole discussion is about the fact that it would be technically possible to have private character sets and private agreements that your OS downloads without the user being aware of it. The sticky issues are not the questions of how to make available

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-05 Thread Martin J. Dürst
On 2015/06/04 17:03, Chris wrote: I wish Steve Jobs was here to give this lecture. Well, if Steve Jobs were still around, he could think about whether (and how many) users really want their private characters, and whether it was worth the time to have his engineers working on the solution.

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-05 Thread William_J_G Overington
Asmus Freytag wrote about security issues. This is interesting reading and I have learned a lot from the post about various security issues. Whilst the post is in this thread and follows from a post in this thread, the topic has seemed to moved to the Custom characters thread. I note that what

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-05 Thread Doug Ewell
I wrote, crumpled up, and threw away about three different responses. I thought about ISO 2022 and about accessing the web for every PUA character, as Asmus mentioned, and about the size of the user base, as Martin mentioned. I thought about character properties and about ephemerality. I didn't

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-04 Thread Chris
No, that's why you include a reference to the font in the private agreement, so that interested parties can install it and see the special character(s). People with their iphones and ipads and so forth don’t want to have “private agreements”, they don’t want to “install character sets”. The

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-04 Thread Chris
On 4 Jun 2015, at 10:59 am, David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:46 PM Chris idou...@gmail.com mailto:idou...@gmail.com wrote: I personally think emoji should have one, single definitive representation for this exact reason. Then you want an image. I

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-03 Thread Chris
On 3 Jun 2015, at 11:24 pm, David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com wrote: Chris wrote: There is no way to compare 2 HTML elements and know they are talking about the same character That's because character identity is a hard problem. Is the emoji TIGER the same as TONY THE TIGER or as

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-03 Thread John
So what you’re saying is that the current situation where you see an empty square □ for unknown characters is better than seeing something useful? — Chris On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote: Chris idou747 at gmail dot com wrote: Right now, what happens if you

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-03 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:46 PM Chris idou...@gmail.com wrote: I personally think emoji should have one, single definitive representation for this exact reason. Then you want an image. I don't see what's hard about that. The community interested in tony the tiger can make decisions like

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-03 Thread Philippe Verdy
Compression is even more important today on mobile networks: mobile apps are very verbose over the net, and you can easily pay the extra volume. In addition, mobile networks are frequently much slower than what they are advertized, even if you pay the extra subscription to get 3G/4G, you depend on

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-03 Thread William_J_G Overington
Earlier in this thread, on 2 June 2015, I wrote as follows: A mechanism to be able to use the method to define a glyph linked to a Unicode code point would be a useful facility to add for use in a situation where the glyph is for a regular Unicode character. I have now thought of a mechanism

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-03 Thread David Starner
Chris wrote: There is no way to compare 2 HTML elements and know they are talking about the same character That's because character identity is a hard problem. Is the emoji TIGER the same as TONY THE TIGER or as TONY THE TIGER GIVING THE VICTORY SIGN?

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-03 Thread Doug Ewell
Chris idou747 at gmail dot com wrote: Right now, what happens if you have a domain or locale requirement for a special character? That's what the PUA is for. Assign a PUA code point to your special character, create a font which implements the PUA character, create a brief private agreement

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-03 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-06-04 2:59 GMT+02:00 David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com: You can’t iterate over compressed bits. You can’t process them. Why not? In any language I know of that has iterators, there would be no problem writing one that iterates over compressed input. If you need to mutate them, that is

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-03 Thread Doug Ewell
Chris John idou747 at gmail dot com wrote: So what you’re saying is that the current situation where you see an empty square □ for unknown characters is better than seeing something useful? No, that's why you include a reference to the font in the private agreement, so that interested

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
Once again no ! Unicode is a standard for encoding characters, not for encoding some syntaxic element of a glyph definition ! Your project is out of scope. You still want to reinvent the wheel. For creating syntax, define it within a language (which does not need new characters (you're not

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread William_J_G Overington
Perhaps the solution to at least some of the various issues that have been discussed in this thread is to define a tag letter z as a code within the local glyph memory requests, as follows. Local glyph memory, for use in compressing a document where the same glyph is used two or more times

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread Martin J. Dürst
On 2015/06/03 07:55, Chris wrote: As you point out, The UCS will not encode characters without a demonstrated usage.”. But there are use cases for characters that don’t meet UCS’s criteria for a world wide standard, but are necessary for more specific use cases, like specialised regional,

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread Chris
I was asking why the glyphs for right arrow ➡ are inconsistent in many sources, through a couple of iterations of unicode. Perhaps I might observe that one of the reasons is there is no technical link between the code and the glyph. I can’t realistically write a display engine that goes to

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread Chris
Martin, you seem to be labouring under the impression that HTML5 is a substitute for character encoding. If it is, why do we need unicode? We could just have documents laden with IMG tags, and restrict ourselves to ascii. It seems I need to spell out one more time why HTML is not character

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread Chris
On 3 Jun 2015, at 11:22 am, Martin J. Dürst due...@it.aoyama.ac.jp wrote: On 2015/05/29 11:37, John wrote: If I had a large document that reused a particular character thousands of times, Then it would be either a very boring document (containing almost only that same character) or

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread Martin J. Dürst
On 2015/05/29 11:37, John wrote: If I had a large document that reused a particular character thousands of times, Then it would be either a very boring document (containing almost only that same character) or it would be a very large document. would this HTML markup require embedding that

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
No, nothing about what you propose, which is to encode graphics directly with a custom syntax using specific Unicode characters for this syntax itself. There's no such statement in the UTR, even for longer term. What is proposed instead is a way to *reference* (not define) graphics. For the rest,

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2015-06-02, William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: take place if people on this mailing list feel that it is a good solution to the problem raised in section 8 of the following document. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-2.html That section does not raise a

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread William_J_G Overington
Responding to Philippe Verdy: Nothing has been published. It has been published. It is published in this thread for discussion prior to a possible submission to the Unicode Technical Committee that could take place if people on this mailing list feel that it is a good solution to the problem

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread Ken Whistler
On 6/2/2015 2:01 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote: Local glyph memory, for use in compressing a document where the same glyph is used two or more times in the document: Um, that technology already exists. It is called a font. A mechanism to be able to use the method to define a glyph

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-06-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-06-01 1:33 GMT+02:00 Chris idou...@gmail.com: Of course, anyone can invent a character set. The difficult bit is having a standard way of combining custom character sets. That’s why a standard would be useful. And while stuff like this can, to some extent, be recognised by magic

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-31 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 5/31/2015 5:33 AM, Chris-as-John wrote: Yes, Asmus good post. But I don’t really think HTML, even a subset, is really the right solution. The longer I think about this, what would be needed would be something like an abstract format. A specification of the capabilities to be supported

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-31 Thread Philippe Verdy
The abstract format already exists also for HTML (with MIME charset extension of the media-type text/plain (it can also be embedded in a meta tag, where the HTML source file ius just stored in a filesystem, so that a webserver can parse it and provide the correct MIME header, if the webserver has

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-31 Thread Doug Ewell
David Starner wrote: I would say that a system would conform with Unicode in having yellow heart red (in a non-monochrome font) as well as if it made it a cross. Either way it's violating character identity. I'd say that being monochromatic is now like being monospaced; it's suboptimal for a

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-31 Thread Chris
Of course, anyone can invent a character set. The difficult bit is having a standard way of combining custom character sets. That’s why a standard would be useful. And while stuff like this can, to some extent, be recognised by magic numbers, and unique strings in headers, such things are

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-31 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
John, reading this discussion, I agree with your reaductio ad absurdum of infinitely nested HTML. But I think you are onto something with your hypothetical example of the subset that works in ALL textual situations. There's clearly a use case for something like it, and I believe many

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-31 Thread John
Yes, Asmus good post. But I don’t really think HTML, even a subset, is really the right solution. I’m reminded of the design for XML itself, it is supposed to start with a header that defines what that XML will conform to. Those definitions contain some unique identifiers of that XML schema,

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-05-30 10:47 GMT+02:00 William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com : Responding to Doug Ewell: I think this cuts to the heart of what people have been trying to say all along. Historically, Unicode was not meant to be the means by which brand new ideas are run up the proverbial

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread Doug Ewell
Note: Everything below is my personal opinion and does not represent any official Unicode Consortium or UTC position. William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com wrote: Historically, Unicode was not meant to be the means by which brand new ideas are run up the proverbial

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread David Starner
I would say that a system would conform with Unicode in having yellow heart red (in a non-monochrome font) as well as if it made it a cross. Either way it's violating character identity. I'd say that being monochromatic is now like being monospaced; it's suboptimal for a Unicode implementation,

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread William_J_G Overington
Responding to Leo Broukhis: A more common occurrence is the need to include a non-standard character in a text message, be it a ski piste symbol or an obscure CJK ideogram. Have you thought of embedding TrueType in Unicode? Not congruently so, yet, in effect, yes, as I have considered

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread William_J_G Overington
Responding to Doug Ewell: I think this cuts to the heart of what people have been trying to say all along. Historically, Unicode was not meant to be the means by which brand new ideas are run up the proverbial flagpole to see if they will gain traction. History is interesting and can be a

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-30 Thread John
Hmm, these once entities of which you speak, do they require javascript? Because I'm not sure what we are looking for here is static documents requiring a full programming language. But let's say for a moment that html5 can, or could do the job here. Then to make the dream come true that

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-29 Thread William_J_G Overington
Responding to Mark E. Shoulson: As was pointed out to me, essentially what you are saying is you reject my premise that one size does not fit all. Well, I do not know where that came from, but no, I do not reject that premise. There is plain text, there is HTML, there is XML. HTML is

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-29 Thread William_J_G Overington
Responding to Philippe Verdy: There's no advantage because what you want to create is effectively another markup language with its own syntax (but requiring new obscure characters that most applications and users will not be able to interpret and render correctly in the way intended by you,

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-29 Thread Leo Broukhis
The format that I am suggesting would allow the image for a non-standard emoji character to be included in a text message, with the image located at the correct place in the text. A more common occurrence is the need to include a non-standard character in a text message, be it a ski piste

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-29 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com wrote: There's no advantage because what you want to create is effectively another markup language with its own syntax (but requiring new obscure characters that most applications and users will not be able to interpret and

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-29 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-05-29 4:37 GMT+02:00 John idou...@gmail.com: Today the world goes very well with HTML(5) which is now the bext markup language for document (including for inserting embedded images that don’t require any external request” If I had a large document that reused a particular character

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-28 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
As was pointed out to me, essentially what you are saying is you reject my premise that one size does not fit all. You would prefer *everything* be in plain text, so you wouldn't have to use other formats for it. You're essentially converting plain text into THE format for everything. But

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-28 Thread John
Today the world goes very well with HTML(5) which is now the bext markup language for document (including for inserting embedded images that don’t require any external request” If I had a large document that reused a particular character thousands of times, would this HTML markup require

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-28 Thread William_J_G Overington
Responding to Mark E. Shoulson: The big advantage of this new format is that the result is an unambiguous Unicode plain text file and could be placed within a file of plain text without having to make the whole document a markup file to some format. Plain text is the key advantage. The

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-27 Thread Ken Whistler
Doug, Read on in the minutes to the next day. 143-C27 and related actions. There are a few things to keep in mind here. 1. The un-deprecation of the tags U+E0020..U+E007E *is* part of the UCD for Unicode 8.0. The change has already taken place in the revised beta files now posted (see

RE: Tag characters

2015-05-27 Thread Doug Ewell
Ken Whistler kenwhistler at att dot net wrote: Read on in the minutes to the next day. 143-C27 and related actions. Ah. Thank you. Now I understand what Steven meant by read the minutes, too. That's the problem with reading individual items in meeting minutes: each item is a snapshot in time,

RE: Tag characters

2015-05-27 Thread Peter Constable
; eric.mul...@efele.net; asmus-...@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: Tag characters Peter Constable wrote as follows: Would Unicode really want to get into the business of running a UFL service? Well, Unicode is about precision, interoperability and long-term stability, and, given, in relation to one

RE: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-27 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com wrote: Please feel free to suggest improvements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-27 Thread Steven R. Loomis
Thanks Ken; and yes Doug; http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15107.htm#143-C27 was the reference I was looking for when I wrote my too- brief reply earlier. My apologies. S Enviado desde nuestro iPhone. On May 27, 2015, at 2:06 PM, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote: Ken Whistler kenwhistler

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

2015-05-27 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
I think I've figured out the philosophy WJGO is trying to follow here. We should have a way to encode graphics in Unicode We should have a way to encode programming instructions in Unicode How about We should have a way to encode sound-waves in Unicode? Or We should have a way to encode *moving*

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-27 Thread William_J_G Overington
Peter Constable wrote as follows: Would Unicode really want to get into the business of running a UFL service? Well, Unicode is about precision, interoperability and long-term stability, and, given, in relation to one particular specified base character followed by some tag characters, that a

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-26 Thread Eric Muller
On 5/21/2015 1:25 PM, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: On 5/21/2015 8:46 AM, Peter Constable wrote: Would Unicode really want to get into the business of running a UFL

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-26 Thread Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD
Aww... I was SURE you meant UFOs! On 2015-05-26 09:48, Eric Muller wrote: On 5/21/2015 1:25 PM, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: On 5/21/2015 8:46 AM, Peter Constable wrote: Would Unicode really want to get into the business of running a UFL service? I suspect both Eric and I may have have been

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-21 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
[mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] *On Behalf Of *Asmus Freytag (t) *Sent:* Wednesday, May 20, 2015 10:15 PM *To:* Eric Muller; unicode@unicode.org *Subject:* Re: Tag characters On 5/20/2015 9:57 PM, Eric Muller wrote: On 5/20/2015 7:11 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: In any event, URLs

RE: Tag characters

2015-05-21 Thread Erkki I Kolehmainen
I don’t think so. Sincerely, Erkki Lähettäjä: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] Puolesta Peter Constable Lähetetty: 21. toukokuuta 2015 18:46 Vastaanottaja: Asmus Freytag (t); Eric Muller; unicode@unicode.org Aihe: RE: Tag characters Would Unicode really want to get

RE: Tag characters

2015-05-21 Thread Peter Constable
Would Unicode really want to get into the business of running a UFL service? P From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag (t) Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 10:15 PM To: Eric Muller; unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Tag characters On 5/20/2015 9:57 PM, Eric

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-21 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-05-21 4:11 GMT+02:00 Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org: Philippe Verdy wrote: URLs were initially deisgned to be stable (and this is still a strong recommendation). [+ 559 words] It doesn't matter if they were designed to be stable. Users don't keep them stable. I can't believe we're

Re: RE: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread William_J_G Overington
Peter Constable wrote as follows. Evidently there were more than two type of people. There are those who feel 50 years is long enough; there are others who feel that five years is long enough; there are likely others that feel 75 or 30 or some other values are long enough. Then there are

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
Well for now a reasonnably stable standard exists: URLs, that can point to a collection of pagenames (each site can choose its own registry to name/encode the flags) URLs are then returening images (you can make a site that can return images in several formats and with variable sizes as well or

RE: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote: Well for now a reasonnably stable standard exists: URLs, that can point to a collection of pagenames (each site can choose its own registry to name/encode the flags) URLs are the opposite of stability. Anyone can post whatever they

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Wed, 20 May 2015 17:15:28 -0700 Asmus Freytag (t) asmus-...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Have there been any discussions of the flag alphabet? (Signal flags). It seems to me that when schemes for representing sets of flags are discussed, it would be useful to keep open the ability to use the

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
URLs were initially deisgned to be stable (and this is still a strong recommendation). However I did not describe just URLs but URNs (whose URLs are just resolvers locating them). URNs share with URLs (and URIs in general, as well the UCS) the initial U which is intended to be universal (both in

RE: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Shawn Steele
, 2015 6:08 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Tag characters On Wed, 20 May 2015 17:15:28 -0700 Asmus Freytag (t) asmus-...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Have there been any discussions of the flag alphabet? (Signal flags). It seems to me that when schemes for representing sets of flags

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
Have there been any discussions of the flag alphabet? (Signal flags). They are not that infrequently used online or in print, although the concentration tends to be higher in publications/sites geared to nautical audiences (not that different from chess pieces and chess publications). Now,

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Wed, 20 May 2015 17:29:28 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: This could also be of use now so as to display such items as the flag of the USA at various historical periods. It would be helpful if a particular year were chosen for normalization purposes: for

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 5/20/2015 9:57 PM, Eric Muller wrote: On 5/20/2015 7:11 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: In any event, URLs that point to images would be an awful basis for an encoding. I would make an exception for the URL http://unicode.org/Public/8.0.0/ucd/StandardizedFlags.html. Eric. Currently that gives

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Richard Wordingham Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:08 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Tag characters On Wed, 20 May 2015 17:15:28 -0700 Asmus Freytag (t) asmus-...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Have there been any discussions of the flag alphabet? (Signal flags). It seems

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Eric Muller
On 5/20/2015 7:11 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: In any event, URLs that point to images would be an awful basis for an encoding. I would make an exception for the URL http://unicode.org/Public/8.0.0/ucd/StandardizedFlags.html. Eric.

RE: Tag characters

2015-05-19 Thread Peter Constable
length is probably not long enough. Peter -Original Message- From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:01 AM To: Unicode Mailing List Cc: William_J_G Overington Subject: Re: Tag characters William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-19 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-05-19 7:18 GMT+02:00 Mark Davis ☕️ m...@macchiato.com: There is a difference between EU and UN; the former is in BCP47. That being said, we could look at making the exceptionally reserved codes valid for this purpose (or at least the UN code). It appears that there are only 3

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-19 Thread Doug Ewell
Re: Tag characters Mark Davis ⛾ mark at macchiato dot com wrote: A more concrete proposal will be in a PRI to be issued soon, and people will have a chance to comment more then. I'll hold off on most other questions until the PRI appears. The principal reason for 3 digit codes is because

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-19 Thread William_J_G Overington
Doug Ewell wrote: Hopefully the MA will adhere to the new 50-year limit. The example given in the proposal talked about trans-national flags. What is MA please? A 50-year limit seems far too short a time. With that figure, a document could have its meaning retrospectively changed at least

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-19 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com wrote: Hopefully the MA will adhere to the new 50-year limit. What is MA please? Maintenance Agency: http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes.htm A 50-year limit seems far too short a time. There are two types of

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-18 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
​A few notes. A more concrete proposal will be in a PRI to be issued soon, and people will have a chance to comment more then. (I'm not trying to discourage discussion, just pointing out that there will be something more concrete relatively soon to comment on—people are pretty busy getting 8.0

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-16 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-05-16 19:07 GMT+02:00 Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org: L2/15-145R says: On some platforms that support a number of emoji flags, there is substantial demand to support additional flags for the following: [...] Certain supra-national regions, such as Europe (European Union flag) or the

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-16 Thread Steven R. Loomis
See the meeting minutes and the actual utr51. Enviado desde nuestro iPhone. El may 16, 2015, a las 10:07 AM, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org escribió: L2/15-145R says: On some platforms that support a number of emoji flags, there is substantial demand to support additional flags for the

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-16 Thread Doug Ewell
Steven R. Loomis wrote: See the meeting minutes and the actual utr51. Sorry, I didn't find anything dealing with numeric codes in Section E.1.3 of the meeting minutes, and the copy of UTR #51 at unicode.org doesn't appear to have been updated for anything beyond the existing RIS. What

RE: Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters)

2015-05-15 Thread Peter Constable
Of Peter Constable Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 8:47 AM To: Shervin Afshar Cc: unicode@unicode.org Subject: RE: Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters) MSN Messenger supported extensible stickers years ago. A couple of sites still offering add-ons: http://www.getsmile.com/ http://www.smileys4msn.com

RE: Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters)

2015-05-15 Thread Peter Constable
Subject: Re: Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters) Good point. I missed these while looking into compatibility symbols. Of course, as with Yahoo[1] and MSN[2] Messenger emoji sets, most of these are mappable to current or proposed sets of Unicode emoji (e.g. Lips Sealed ≈ U+1F910 ZIPPER-MOUTH

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-15 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
[mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] *On Behalf Of *Shervin Afshar *Sent:* Thursday, May 14, 2015 2:27 PM *To:* wjgo_10...@btinternet.com *Cc:* unicode@unicode.org *Subject:* Re: Tag characters Thinking about this further, could the technique be used to solve the requirements of section 8 Longer

A few emoji per year... (was: Re: Tag characters)

2015-05-15 Thread Ken Whistler
And to put Mark's comments in some statistical perspective, in the context of all the media hype, the true big bang for emoji in Unicode was Version 6.0, released over 4-1/2 years ago now. *That* was the Unicode release that added hundreds and hundreds of emoji for Japanese carrier

Re: Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters)

2015-05-15 Thread Shervin Afshar
*Subject:* RE: Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters) MSN Messenger supported extensible stickers years ago. A couple of sites still offering add-ons: http://www.getsmile.com/ http://www.smileys4msn.com/ Peter *From:* Shervin Afshar [mailto:shervinafs...@gmail.com

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-14 Thread William_J_G Overington
What else would be possible if the same sort of technique were applied to another base character? Thinking about this further, could the technique be used to solve the requirements of section 8 Longer Term Solutions of http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-2.html ? Both colour pixel map and

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-14 Thread Doug Ewell
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15107.htm points indirectly to: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15145r-add-regional-ind.pdf which says: The proposal has two parts 1. Un-deprecate TAG characters E0020-E007E. Hee hee. Hee hee. 2. Define a character as the “base” for a following sequence

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-14 Thread Shervin Afshar
Thinking about this further, could the technique be used to solve the requirements of section 8 Longer Term Solutions IMO, the industry preferred longer term solution (which is also discussed in that section with few existing examples) for emoji, is not going to be based on characters. ↪

RE: Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters)

2015-05-14 Thread Peter Constable
] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 8:12 PM To: Peter Constable Cc: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters) Peter, This very topic was discussed in last meeting of the subcommittee and my impression is that there are plans to promote the use of embedded graphics (aka

Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters)

2015-05-14 Thread Shervin Afshar
:27 PM *To:* wjgo_10...@btinternet.com *Cc:* unicode@unicode.org *Subject:* Re: Tag characters Thinking about this further, could the technique be used to solve the requirements of section 8 Longer Term Solutions IMO, the industry preferred longer term solution (which is also discussed

Re: Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters)

2015-05-14 Thread Shervin Afshar
, 2015 8:12 PM *To:* Peter Constable *Cc:* unicode@unicode.org *Subject:* Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters) Peter, This very topic was discussed in last meeting of the subcommittee and my impression is that there are plans to promote the use of embedded graphics (aka stickers

RE: Tag characters

2015-05-14 Thread Peter Constable
, 2015 2:27 PM To: wjgo_10...@btinternet.com Cc: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Tag characters Thinking about this further, could the technique be used to solve the requirements of section 8 Longer Term Solutions IMO, the industry preferred longer term solution (which is also discussed

Re: Tag Characters (from Re: Fwd: RFC 6082 on Deprecating Unicode Language Tag Characters: RFC 2482 is Historic)

2010-11-12 Thread William_J_G Overington
I remembered that I produced a font with visible glyphs for the tag characters. Some readers might like a copy of the font, free, from the following forum post. http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=10587#p10587 I have been trying the font out again and find that I can, with the font

Re: Tag Characters (from Re: Fwd: RFC 6082 on Deprecating Unicode Language Tag Characters: RFC 2482 is Historic)

2010-11-08 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com wrote: I feel that deprecating the tag characters within Unicode was a mistake. There aren't many times when I agree with William, but this is one of them. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org