Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Karl Pentzlin
In WG2 N4085 Further proposed additions to ISO/IEC 10646 and comments to other proposals (2011‐ 05‐25), the German NB had requested re WG2 N4022 Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols besides other points: Also, in doing this work, other fonts widespread on the computers of leading

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Andrew West
On 15 July 2011 09:08, Karl Pentzlin karl-pentz...@acssoft.de wrote: In supporting this, there is now a quick survey of symbol fonts regularly delivered with computers manufactured by Apple:  http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4127.pdf I am agnostic on all the symbols, but would say a

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/15/2011 1:08 AM, Karl Pentzlin wrote: In WG2 N4085 Further proposed additions to ISO/IEC 10646 and comments to other proposals (2011‐ 05‐25), the German NB had requested re WG2 N4022 Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols besides other points: Also, in doing this work, other

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Karl Pentzlin
Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2011 um 10:58 schrieb Asmus Freytag: AF ... There appear to be a large number of symbols for which a AF Unicode equivalent can be identified with great certainty - AF and beyond that there seem to be characters for which such AF an assignment is perhaps more tentative,

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Everson
On 15 Jul 2011, at 09:47, Andrew West wrote: I am agnostic on all the symbols, but would say a definite No to encoding graphic clones of all the format (gc=Cf), space (gc=Zs) and separator (gc=Zl|Zp) characters shown on pages 3, 8 and 9 of that document. It is not necessary, and would set

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Alan Wood
I have web pages with lists of Unicode equivalents for Wingdings and Wingdings 2 characters, updated for Unicode 6.  These equivalents were chosen by me, and they are not in any way official Unicode mappings. http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Martin J. Dürst
On 2011/07/15 18:51, Michael Everson wrote: On 15 Jul 2011, at 09:47, Andrew West wrote: If you want a font to display a visible glyph for a format or space character then you should just map the glyph to its character in the font, as many fonts already do for certain format characters.

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Everson
On 15 Jul 2011, at 13:36, Martin J. Dürst wrote: If we take the needs of charaacter encoding experts when they write *about* characters to decide what to make a character, then we get many too many characters encoded. I think that having encoded symbols for control characters (which we

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Andrew West
On 15 July 2011 13:40, Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com wrote: I think that having encoded symbols for control characters (which we already have for some of them) is no bad thing, and the argument about too many characters is not compelling, as there are only some dozens of these

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
I'll try to arrange for an official corporate response to this document for the next UTC, but informally, I note that the charts include a number of variants of the Apple corporate logo, which Apple wants *not* to be encoded in any form. Beyond this—and speaking purely for myself and not for

RE: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Doug Ewell
Andrew West andrewcwest at gmail dot com replied to Michael Everson: I think that having encoded symbols for control characters (which we already have for some of them) is no bad thing, and the argument about too many characters is not compelling, as there are only some dozens of these

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Karl Pentzlin
Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2011 um 15:08 schrieb Andrew West: AW I oppose encoding graphic clones of non-graphic characters ... I am just waiting for the killer argument against the encoding of chart symbols. They are not clones, but characters by themselves, naming different entities (invisible

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/15/2011 9:03 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: Andrew Westandrewcwest at gmail dot com replied to Michael Everson: I think that having encoded symbols for control characters (which we already have for some of them) is no bad thing, and the argument about too many characters is not compelling, as

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Everson
On 15 Jul 2011, at 17:03, Doug Ewell wrote: 1. Graphic symbols for control characters are needed so writers can write about the control characters themselves using plain text. This does not seem so unreasonable. The RTL and LTR overrides *function* on the text when inserted into text. So you

RE: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Doug Ewell
Michael Everson everson at evertype dot com wrote: 1. Graphic symbols for control characters are needed so writers can write about the control characters themselves using plain text. This does not seem so unreasonable. The RTL and LTR overrides *function* on the text when inserted into

RE: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Erkki I Kolehmainen
I'd assume that you could talk about it by referring to its name and/or code point. A visible symbol for it would be new and would not be recognizable as such. Erkki -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] Puolesta Michael Everson

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Everson
On 15 Jul 2011, at 18:37, Doug Ewell wrote: Do people really need assigned characters (not just glyphs) to represent these things, instead of just talking about them? I see text all the time that refers to characters using the name of the character, or its U+ value, or some informal name

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/15/2011 2:23 AM, Karl Pentzlin wrote: Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2011 um 10:58 schrieb Asmus Freytag: AF ... There appear to be a large number of symbols for which a AF Unicode equivalent can be identified with great certainty - AF and beyond that there seem to be characters for which such AF

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Everson
On 15 Jul 2011, at 18:50, Erkki I Kolehmainen wrote: I'd assume that you could talk about it by referring to its name and/or code point. A visible symbol for it would be new and would not be recognizable as such. In the code charts it has a glyph. Without a SYMBOL FOR character for this

RE: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Doug Ewell
What I see is a certain unreasonability reflecting a certain conservatism. Text about the Standard is important, and should be representable in an interchangeable way. Here { } is a Right to left override character. character. I want to talk about it in a way that is visible. Oops. I can't

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/15/2011 10:26 AM, Michael Everson wrote: What I see is a certain unreasonability reflecting a certain conservatism. Text about the Standard is important, and should be representable in an interchangeable way. Here { } is a Right to left override character. character. I want to talk about

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Everson
On 15 Jul 2011, at 18:48, Asmus Freytag wrote: You would serve this goal much better if, instead of rushing to simply add raw data to the document pile, you had narrowed the issue down by limiting this further to characters that need real scrutiny. Your point was taken the first time. No

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
On 07/15/2011 01:37 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: How do I talk about U+2420 SYMBOL FOR SPACE in plain text? Other than the way I just did, I mean. This infinite recursion argument doesn't hold up. One can see the need for a graphical representation (which does not mess with layout) of characters

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Everson
Look at Figures 8-1 through 8-4 in the Unicode Standard 5.0. We see graphic characters shown, one representing space and two representing joiners. This is plain text. This is something one might wish to put on a web page or in an e-mail. One of the three characters is encoded. Talking about

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread John W Kennedy
On Jul 15, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Mark E. Shoulson wrote: On 07/15/2011 01:37 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: How do I talk about U+2420 SYMBOL FOR SPACE in plain text? Other than the way I just did, I mean. This infinite recursion argument doesn't hold up. Those of us old enough to recall IBM's old

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Leo Broukhis
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:04 PM, John W Kennedy jwke...@attglobal.net wrote: Those of us old enough to recall IBM's old 6-bit BCDIC code (a retronym -- it was known as BCD in its own day) will remember the overstricken b/ character used to represent the Substitute Blank character, the

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Petr Tomasek
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:03:38AM -0700, Doug Ewell wrote: Andrew West andrewcwest at gmail dot com replied to Michael Everson: I think that having encoded symbols for control characters (which we already have for some of them) is no bad thing, and the argument about too many characters

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2011-07-15, Leo Broukhis l...@mailcom.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:04 PM, John W Kennedy jwke...@attglobal.net wrote: Those of us old enough to recall IBM's old 6-bit BCDIC code (a retronym -- it was known as BCD in its own day) will remember the overstricken b/ character used

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Ken Whistler
On 7/15/2011 11:36 AM, Michael Everson wrote: Look at Figures 8-1 through 8-4 in the Unicode Standard 5.0. We see graphic characters shown, one representing space and two representing joiners. This is plain text. Bt. Thanks for playing! But the correct answer

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/15/2011 11:05 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: What I see is a certain unreasonability reflecting a certain conservatism. Text about the Standard is important, and should be representable in an interchangeable way. Here { } is a Right to left override character. character. I want to talk about it

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/15/2011 11:36 AM, Michael Everson wrote: However, I agree with Asmus that in the context of the Wingdings-type symbols these characters should not be considered. They should be considered as a whole on their own. Thank you Michael. To reiterate and restate (so it can be read out of

RE: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webding proposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Erkki I Kolehmainen
FYI: In BCD the Record Mark (A82) and the Group Mark (BA8421) were separate control characters. As shown, there should be no problem in representing their symbols in Unicode plain text. Erkki -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: unicode-bou...@unicode.org

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webdingproposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Doug Ewell
-- Doug Ewell • d...@ewellic.org Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com Sender: unicode-bou...@unicode.org Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:37:40 To: Michael Eversonever...@evertype.com; Unicode Mailing Listunicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Quick

Re: Quick survey of Apple symbol fonts (in context of the Wingding/Webdingproposal)

2011-07-15 Thread Doug Ewell
I apologize for the unintended content-free post. It's my phone's fault. -- Doug Ewell • d...@ewellic.org Sent via BlackBerry by ATT