Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-28 Thread Philippe Verdy
Message du 26/07/10 18:45 De : Markus Scherer markus@gmail.com A : verd...@wanadoo.fr Copie à : Unicode Mailing List unicode@unicode.org Objet : Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out. There are 857 combining marks with combining

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-28 Thread Andrew West
On 28 July 2010 22:09, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: You've not understood what I wanted to say. Maybe if you said less people would understand more . I don't know how much free time you must have on your hands to write hundreds of lines in reply to almost every message on this list

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-28 Thread verdy_p
Markus Scherer There are 857 combining marks with combining class of 0: http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=[[:M:]%26[:ccc%3D0:]]abb=ong= So what ? I perfectly know that there are a lot of diacritics with cc of 0. It's DEFINITELY NOT me that contested that on this list

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Davis ☕
I agree; when the nuggets of useful information are so overwhelmed by the volume of rubble, you just can't afford the time to sift them out. Mark *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:46, Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 July 2010 22:09, Philippe Verdy

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-26 Thread Markus Scherer
There are 857 combining marks with combining class of 0: http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=[[:M:]%26[:ccc%3D0:]]abb=ong= On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Kent Karlsson kent.karlsso...@telia.com wrote: Den 2010-07-24 10.07, skrev

Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread William_J_G Overington
I have been looking at the following thread, which is entitled Making Fonts with Diacritical Marks for Phonetics. http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3t=3169 I am writing here to ask two questions please in relation to the Unicode aspects of the problem. I have looked at

re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread Philippe Verdy
Message du 24/07/10 09:02 De : William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com A : unicode@unicode.org Copie à : wjgo_10...@btinternet.com Objet : Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out. I have been looking at the following thread, which

re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread verdy_p
Philippe Verdy wrote: But even with this case, you wont be able to encode with the ZWJ trick in plain text, such groupings that are expressed this way in TeX: \breve{ \breve{oo} x \breve{ o\acute{o} } } Because double diacritics encoded in Unicode can't be safely stacked together (for

re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread vanisaac
Guys, does nobody read the bloody Standard anymore!? You CAN currently add a diacritic on top of a double diacritic. The other base character is called the Combining Grapheme Joiner (U+304F). From V. 5.0, ch 7.9: Occasionally one runs across orthographic conventions that use a dot, an acute

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread Kent Karlsson
Den 2010-07-24 10.07, skrev Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr: Double diacritics have a combining property equal to zero, so they No, they don't. The above ones have combining class 234 and the below ones have combining class 233 (other characters with the word DOUBLE in them are 'double' in

re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread verdy_p
De : vanis...@boil.afraid.org Guys, does nobody read the bloody Standard anymore!? You CAN currently add a diacritic on top of a double diacritic. The other base character is called the Combining Grapheme Joiner (U+304F). Sorry, I had forgotten this one. Note that I was not sure about the

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread Philippe Verdy
Clark S. Cox III clarkc...@me.com How can *any* combining character have a combining class of zero? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? The U+035D in your example, for instance, has a combining class of 234. No contradiction. Not all combining characters have a non-zero combining class. The

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread Philippe Verdy
Kent Karlsson kent.karlsso...@telia.com wrote: Den 2010-07-24 10.07, skrev Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr: Double diacritics have a combining property equal to zero, so they No, they don't. The above ones have combining class 234 and the below ones have combining class 233 (other