Re: C1 Control Pictures Proposal

2011-08-17 Thread Sean Leonard
On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Sean Leonard wrote: Greetings--hi all, I'm a new poster. I read on the unicode.org website that a good way to gauge interest and get a proposal through the process is to gather feedback and comments here before investing the time in a formal proposal, so, here

Re: C1 Control Pictures Proposal

2011-08-17 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On 08/17/2011 05:14 PM, Sean Leonard wrote: Just putting a*bump* on this post. Any feedback, or, shall I go directly to a formal proposal? [Original proposal is in the last e-mail so I am not resending the whole thing.] Is that all the proposal? You realize you'll have to give sample glyphs,

What are the present criteria for the encoding of characters that have been fairly recently invented please?

2011-08-17 Thread William_J_G Overington
What are the present criteria for the encoding of characters that have been fairly recently invented please? There seems to be a lack of clarity. For example, the criteria in relation to Wingdings and Webdings in the following document are not the same as that often stated on the Unicode

Re: C1 Control Pictures Proposal

2011-08-17 Thread Doug Ewell
Sean Leonard lists plus unicode at seantek dot com wrote: Just putting a *bump* on this post. Speaking as an individual with personal opinions, and without a vote in UTC or WG2 (but having followed Unicode for 18 years), I don't see the need for these additional symbols. The C0 pictures in the

RE: What are the present criteria for the encoding of characters that have been fairly recently invented please?

2011-08-17 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com wrote: What are the present criteria for the encoding of characters that have been fairly recently invented please? There seems to be a lack of clarity. Fairly recently invented seems not to tell the full story with regard to

Re: C1 Control Pictures Proposal

2011-08-17 Thread Ken Whistler
In general, I agree with Doug Ewell's assessment. I don't see a convincing case here for the need to encode more control picture characters for C1 controls. There seems to be a confusion here between the need for glyphs and the need for characters. Also, this would seem to me to be a receding

Re: C1 Control Pictures Proposal

2011-08-17 Thread Andrew West
On 13 August 2011 18:48, Sean Leonard lists+unic...@seantek.com wrote: The Unicode code points U+ through U+00FF share the equivalent values from the ASCII Standard, ISO 646, ISO 6429, and ISO 8859-1. In many contexts, it is desirable to display all of these code points/characters

Re: Non-standard Tibetan stacks

2011-08-17 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:32:51 +0100 Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote: Chris Fynn asked about certain non-standard stacks he was trying to implement in the Tibetan Machine Uni font in an email to the Tibex list on 2006-12-09, but these didn't involve multiple consonant-vowel sequences