On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 07:46:40 +
Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 23:35:06 +0100
> Piotr Karocki via Unicode wrote:
>
> > These are only examples of changes in meaning with or ,
> > not all of these examples can really exist - but, then, another
> > question: can we
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 23:35:06 +0100
Piotr Karocki via Unicode wrote:
> These are only examples of changes in meaning with or ,
> not all of these examples can really exist - but, then, another
> question: can we know what author means? And as carbon and iodine
> cannot exist, then of course CI sh
Organic chemistry would need sub/sup
alpha, beta and gamma (perhaps others).
A./
On 10/31/2018 3:35 PM, Piotr Karocki
via Unicode wrote:
We don't know whether the abbreviation "Mr", spelled exactly this way,
already existe
>We don't know whether the abbreviation "Mr", spelled exactly this way,
>already existed in that time and in that geographical area.
>
>You still don't see the difference in the meaning?
Maybe another example, from chemistry:
14C = isotope of carbon (carbon 14)
14C = 14 units of carbon (mole, at
On 10/31/2018 11:27 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
but we don't have an agreement that reproducing all variations in
manuscripts is in scope.
In fact, I would say that in the UTC, at least, we have an agreement
that that clearly is out of scope!
Trying to represent all aspects of text
On 10/31/2018 10:32 AM, Janusz S. Bień
via Unicode wrote:
Let me remind what plain text is according to the Unicode glossary:
Computer-encoded text that consists only of a sequence of code
points from a given standard, with no other formatting or structural
On Wed, Oct 31 2018 at 9:38 GMT, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
> On 2018-10-31, Janusz S. =?utf-8?Q?Bie=C5=84?= via Unicode
> wrote:
[...]
>> The relevant fragment of the postcard in a loose translation is
>>
>> Use the following address: ...
>> is the abbreviation of magister
On Wed, Oct 31 2018 at 9:38 GMT, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
> On 2018-10-31, Janusz S. =?utf-8?Q?Bie=C5=84?= via Unicode
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 29 2018 at 12:20 -0700, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
>
> [ as did I in private mail ]
>
>>> The abbreviation in the postcard, rendered in
>>>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 03:57:20PM +0100, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
> > We know that for mathematics, a different dividing line meant that it is
> > possible
> > to create an (almost) plain text version of many (if not most) mathematical
> > texts; the conventions of that field are widel
character sequence were displayed.
William Overington
Wednesday 31 October 2018
Original message
>From : unicode@unicode.org
Date : 2018/10/31 - 14:57 (GMTST)
To : unicode@unicode.org
Subject : Re: A sign/abbreviation for "magister" (was: Re: second
attempt)
On 31/10/2018 at
On 31/10/2018 at 11:21, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
>
> On 10/31/2018 2:38 AM, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
>
> > You could use the various hacks
> > you've discussed, with modifier letters; but that is not "encoding",
> > that is "abusing Unicode to do markup". At least, that's the vie
On 10/31/2018 2:38 AM, Julian Bradfield
via Unicode wrote:
You could use the various hacks
you've discussed, with modifier letters; but that is not "encoding",
that is "abusing Unicode to do markup". At least, that's the view I
take!
+1
In general, I ha
On 2018-10-31, Janusz S. =?utf-8?Q?Bie=C5=84?= via Unicode
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29 2018 at 12:20 -0700, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
[ as did I in private mail ]
>> The abbreviation in the postcard, rendered in
>> plain text, is "Mr".
>
> The relevant fragment of the postcard in a loose transl
My previous attempt to send this mail was rejected by the list as
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On Mon, Oct 29 2018 at 12:20 -0700, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
[...]
> The abbreviation in the postcard, render
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