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 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

...@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 and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

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: Custom characters (was: Re: Private Use Area in Use)

On 6/4/2015 1:46 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote: I thought that I would mention it, though I cannot quite at the moment understand the issue. I'm long past where I'm sure I understand what the issue is. :) A./

Re: Bunny hill symbol, used in America for signaling ski pistes for novices

On 5/28/2015 2:15 PM, Shawn Steele wrote: I’m used to them being next to each other. So the entire discussion seems to be about how to encode a concept vs how to get the shape you want with existing code points. If you just want the perfect shape, then maybe an svg is a better choice. If

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

that unicode has defined. — Chris On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Asmus Freytag (t) asmus-...@ix.netcom.com mailto:asmus-...@ix.netcom.com wrote: reading this discussion, I agree with your reaductio ad absurdum of infinitely nested HTML. But I think you are onto something with your

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

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: PRI #299 (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode)

On 7/3/2015 12:50 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: Leo Broukhis leob at mailcom dot com wrote: What I don't like about PRI #399 is its proposing to use default- ignorable characters. On a non-vexillology-aware platform, I'd like

Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode

On 7/6/2015 9:42 AM, Steve Swales wrote: Or a flag inversion modifier… recently I discovered that the Philippines flag, for example, has a special meaning (we are at war) when inverted. Just a thought. Rather than modifiers, I think a more natural

Re: PRI #299

On 7/6/2015 8:18 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: Most platforms display unknown printable characters as white rectangles with hex digits in them. In Doug's message, I saw a rectangle with 01F in the upper row, and 3F3 in the lower row. This is a handy

Re: Regarding Unicode for new Symbol

On 5/23/2015 5:41 AM, baskar raj wrote: Hi, Is it possible to get a Unicode for a new symbol, designed for a commonly used word, For Example lets say and . which can be used in conjunction with numbers or letters. so is it possible to file application seeking Unicode Generally, there

Re: Tag characters

[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: APL Under-bar Characters

On 8/18/2015 6:18 AM, alexwei...@alexweiner.com wrote: "PUA"? Private use area. A./ PS: "underbar" is Swedish for "wonderful". Go figure. Original Message Subject: RE: APL Under-bar Characters From:

Re: APL Under-bar Characters

On 8/16/2015 6:57 PM, alexwei...@alexweiner.com wrote: Bug APL, After much discussion with The Unicode Consortium Mailing List, Can we use this to give the characters unique names?

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

On 8/22/2015 9:35 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: There is no inherent meaning to the order of codepoints, it's just convenience. And for that reason, we have property files to explicitly give the properties rather than asking the user to "glean"

Re: Emoji characters for food allergens

been required to learn, and that few people actually do learn to any great extent. Peter *From:*Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] *On Behalf Of *Asmus Freytag (t) *Sent:* Monday, August 3, 2015 12:01 PM *To:* unicode@unicode.org *Subject:* Re: Emoji characters for food allergens

Re: Emoji characters for food allergens

On 7/30/2015 12:07 PM, Andrew West wrote: On 30 July 2015 at 18:07, Marcel Schneider charupd...@orange.fr wrote: I'll try to respond to all, Please don't. Andrew What Andrew said. A./

Re: Emoji characters for food allergens

On 7/30/2015 10:07 AM, Marcel Schneider wrote: it might not be enough to avoid allergens, we should pay attention to the presence of palm oil because of the useless devastation of primates' habitats while enough fallow land exists in a concerned

Re: Emoji characters for food allergens

I'm sorry to really disagree with this little understandable criticism of laundry symbols. The most encountered of the care tags are self-explaining, as the washing and iron temperature limits or discouraging. The other symbols mainly concern dry cleaning and laundry

Re: Emoji characters for food allergens

When it comes to symbolic and / or pictorial representations, there are roughly three kinds. I'm going to use "symbol" here for both symbols and emoji when the latter are used in contexts where there also are (or could be) symbols - and I don't limit symbol to the subset

Re: The role of documentation in implementation (was: Re: Windows keyboard restrictions)

On 8/11/2015 11:51 AM, Marcel Schneider wrote: All that, and some more, leads me to the conclusion that when Windows was built, there was often not enough time to write up the documentation; Marcel, please consider that this musing

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

On 8/8/2015 6:26 AM, Marcel Schneider wrote: a useless worsening of the usability and of the usefulness of a product. Quote of the day. A./

Re: Windows keyboard restrictions

On 8/8/2015 1:57 PM, Marcel Schneider wrote: Now that I know Andrew is the PM for MSKLC ¹, Probably Mr Glass wasn't Mr Kaplan's boss, so he is to overtake a legacy without having been involved in its generating. I didn't well notice

Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

On 8/14/2015 11:50 AM, Ken Whistler wrote: Garth, The glyphs for the chess symbols in the 26XX block date from Unicode 3.0. Most of the symbols redesigned for the Unicode 3.0 charts were done by John M. Fiscella. (See the font

Re: Chess symbol glyphs in code charts

On 8/14/2015 1:26 PM, Garth Wallace wrote: Would it be acceptable if I extracted the font from the code chart PDF Extraction of chart font is never acceptable and violates the Terms of Use. No exceptions. and used it as the

Re: AW: Security concerns: OGHAM SPACE MARK

On 7/21/2015 2:55 PM, Dreiheller, Albrecht wrote: Of course, there are

Re: The scope of Unicode (from Re: How can my research become implemented in a standardized manner?)

On 10/22/2015 9:54 AM, Rick McGowan wrote: Personally, I think you're getting ahead of yourself. First, you should demonstrate that you have done research and produced results that at least some people find so useful and important that they are eager to implement the findings. Then, once you

Re: Latin glottal stop in ID in NWT, Canada

On 10/16/2015 12:18 AM, Marcel Schneider wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:46:46 -0700, Leo Broukhis wrote: > Along the same lines, should I be able to change my last name > officially to Ƃpyxᴎc? (NB all

Re: Unpaired surrogates

When it comes to methods operating on buffers there's always the tension between viewing the buffer as text elements vs. as data elements. For some purposes, from error detection to data cleanup you need to be able to treat the buffer as data elements. For many

Re: Dark beer emoji

On 9/1/2015 9:37 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: I have no idea whether my proposal is more or less serious, or more or less likely to be adopted, than the original. Well, you didn't consider that each style of beer may be served in a different style glass. :)

Re: Dark beer emoji

On 9/3/2015 9:15 AM, Shawn Steele wrote: If we have a bunch of ingredients emoji, then do yeast + grain + hops emoji combine into beer emoji?   Only if you add heat, time and water

Re: Technical or encoding sub mailing list ?

Daniel Bünzli wrote: Since I implement parts of the Unicode standard I'm interested in keeping in touch with discussions about the standard and its evolution from a technical point of view. I'm however not interested in the encoding point of view and

Re: Upcoming proposal for Bitcoin sign

On 9/6/2015 10:10 PM, Martin J. Dürst wrote: Hello Ken, You write "The bitcoin sign and baht symbol are two unrelated symbols that have some visual similarity.", but don't really give any supporting information for that claim.

Re: String Ranges in Unicode Sets

On 9/6/2015 11:23 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 09:32:42 -0700 Rick McGowan wrote: A proposed update to the LDML specification (UTS #35) will be available for review as of Monday, September 7 at 06:00 GMT. The

Re: String Ranges in Unicode Sets

Mark, it is implied the String Range formulation is a compact form. Can you prove that it doesn't create any set of strings that can't be specified in other ways (other than full enumeration of the strings?). What about set operations on sets with

Re: Dark beer emoji

On 9/3/2015 2:09 AM, Marcel Schneider wrote: Asmus already told us that there'll be no soy beans emoji, by lack of iconicity. However, could there be a generic BEANS emoji A coffee bean has a very recognizable shape, and I personally would

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

On 8/25/2015 12:07 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:54:29 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Richard Wordingham wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: Looking at the

Re: [somewhat off topic] straw poll

On 9/10/2015 11:04 AM, Peter Constable wrote: I was having an offline discussion with someone regarding certain topics that may show up on this list on occasion, and the question came up of what evidence we

Re: Grapheme clusters and east asian width

On 9/15/2015 6:45 PM, Daniel Bünzli wrote: Hello, Is there any guidance on how to combine the information given by grapheme clusters and the east asian width property to do fixed-width layouts in terminal emulators ? For example if we have: U+AC01 ( 각 )

Re: Concise term for non-ASCII Unicode characters

On 9/29/2015 8:40 PM, Sean Leonard wrote: I like the definition of "character" in ASCII: 3.3 Character. A member of a set of elements used for the organization, control, or representation of data. This, by the way, is the

Re: Acquiring DIS 10646

On 10/3/2015 8:15 AM, Sean Leonard wrote: Thanks. Well, "DIS 10646" is the Draft International Standard, particularly Draft 1, from ~1990 or ~1991. (Sometimes it might have been called 10646.1.) Therefore it would likely only be in

Re: Deleting Lone Surrogates

On 10/4/2015 6:02 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote: In the absence of a specific tailoring, is the combination of a lone surrogate and a combining mark a user-perceived character? Does a lone surrogate constitute a user-perceived character? In an editing

Re: Deleting Lone Surrogates

On 10/4/2015 12:38 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 10:50:43 -0700 Markus Scherer wrote: I would not spend any time specifying intricate rules for unpaired surrogates in 16-bit strings, or out-of range values

Re: Acquiring DIS 10646

On 10/4/2015 5:30 AM, Sean Leonard wrote: On 10/3/2015 12:28 PM, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: On 10/3/2015 8:15 AM, Sean Leonard wrote: Thanks. Well, "DIS 10646" is the Draft Internationa

Re: Deleting Lone Surrogates

On 10/4/2015 2:35 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: However my opinion is that ᒏ�ᒺ (using U+FFFD substitution) gives 2 > grapheme clusters, I would prefer a solution that gives 3 grapheme > clusters, as if the lone surrogate was a line-break control, so that

Re: Deleting Lone Surrogates

On 10/4/2015 4:14 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: respect to what to erase or undo. For sequences that belong to a given language, you can pick the behavior that makes most sense in them, but for lone surrogates, by definition you are dealing

Re: Unicode in passwords

On 10/6/2015 7:31 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: All browsers I use display spaces in input boxes, and put blobs for hidden fields. Do you have evidence for broken input fields? Network keys. That interface seems to consistently give people a choice

Re: Why Nothing Ever Goes Away

On 10/6/2015 5:24 AM, Sean Leonard wrote: And, why did Unicode deem it necessary to replicate the C1 block at 0x80-0x9F, when all of the control characters (codes) were equally reachable via ESC 4/0 - 5/15? I understand why it is desirable to align

Re: Deleting Lone Surrogates

On 10/5/2015 7:51 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote: Not silently ! Even if this removal is required to go on editing, this must be notified to the user as it may occur in unedited parts of the file (and it may be the sign that the document is not fully plain text, so the user should not save the

Re: Proposal for German capital letter "ß"

On 12/9/2015 9:52 AM, Gerrit Ansmann wrote: After the German spelling reform in 1996, "ß" then became a letter of its own, and words containing the letter "ß" are no longer equivalent to words containing an "ss" combination instead of

Re: Proposal for German capital letter "ß"

On 12/9/2015 3:49 PM, Hans Meiser wrote: Yes, they do it wrong because (1) they don't know better and (2) they let their software convert lower case text into upper case (a feature nearly every typographic software provides). Yet, if we let the majority of

Re: Proposal for German capital letter "ß"

On 12/9/2015 1:11 PM, Michael Everson wrote: On 9 Dec 2015, at 20:57, Gerrit Ansmann wrote: Proposal: Shouldn't the glyph be amended to match the natural language? Nothing of this is really

Re: Aw: Re: Proposal for German capital letter "ß"

Bing is pathetic. It treats the letter as if it didn't exist Google maps it to the lowercase, neither allows you to find sites that use just that character. A./

Re: Aw: Re: Proposal for German capital letter "ß"

On 12/9/2015 11:57 PM, "Jörg Knappen" wrote: Since the captial sharp s is easily available to the public, I see it popping up everywhere in German publications, mostly in an all caps environment. I have a small

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

On 1/4/2016 10:41 AM, Michael Everson wrote: Certainly it does look more like a very common variant of “tau” than “pi” Variant of uppercase tau? A./

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

On 1/4/2016 12:15 AM, "Jörg Knappen" wrote: Here is a report of a rather strange beast occurring in historical math printing (work of C. F. Gauß) in thw 19th century:  

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

my suggestion of pi. Raymond   From: Asmus Freytag (t) Se

Re: Unicode in the Curriculum?

On 1/1/2016 6:00 AM, Andre Schappo wrote: Julian, We have very different POVs on this topic. You raise a number of issues which would take me many many thousands of words to properly discuss. I will attempt a summary discussion of some of the issues. ① IT i18n

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

question is a variant of the greek letter tau (capital or lowercase). The identification to τ is from Asmus Freytag, not me. Mine is a concurring opinion based on ME's suggestion, but corroborated, in my view, by the systematic notational conventions and not merely informed by visual sim

Re: Unicode in the Curriculum?

character sets is beyond a standard curriculum, except perhaps History of Computing or Digital Archaeology :) Teach them right the first time. They’ll never use a code page. +1 A./ -Shawn *From:*Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] *On Behalf Of *Asmus Freytag (t) *Sent:* January 6

Re: Unicode in the Curriculum?

ing on the bunny slope at the UTF-8 ski resort. Slap on your snowboard and practice -- get out there onto the 2-, 3- and 4-byte slopes with the experts! --Ken On 1/6/2016 4:09 AM, Andre Schappo wrote: On 4 Jan 2016, at 16:59, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: ASCII sho

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

On 1/4/2016 7:49 AM, Michael Everson wrote: Excellent! Looks like a candidate character for encoding. I’m sure I have some examples of good font designs for the old character in one of my books. Admitting that a Greek letter inherently makes more

Re: Aw: Symbol for an upside down capital L, pointing to the right?

On 1/4/2016 12:06 AM, "Jörg Knappen" wrote: Err... in what respect would this symbol be different from a CAPITAL GREEK LETTER GAMMA?   --Jörg Knappen A sans-serif L would not have

Re: Unicode in the Curriculum? (Julian Bradfield)

On 1/4/2016 6:44 AM, Elizabeth J. Pyatt wrote: Like some others on the list, I believe Unicode should be mentioned at different points in a programming curriculum, particularly at the time when ASCII would be taught. ASCII shouldn't be taught, perhaps?

Re: Symbol for an upside down capital L, pointing to the right?

On 12/28/2015 1:26 PM, Jonathan Coxhead wrote: On 2015-12-25 5:43am, Costello, Roger L. wrote: Hi Folks, Here is the upside down capital L, pointing to the left: ⅂ - TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL L (U+2142)

Re: Symbol for an upside down capital L, pointing to the right?

On 12/29/2015 4:01 AM, Michael Everson wrote: On 28 Dec 2015, at 23:48, Asmus Freytag (t) <asmus-...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: Rather than engage in reflexive ad-hoc unification like this, it would be useful to find out why U+2142 was disunified from TOP RIGHT CORNER and any other symbols

Re: ZWJ, ZWNJ and Markup languages.

On 11/27/2015 11:55 AM, Plug Gulp wrote: Hi, The Unicode standard 8.0 states in chapter 23, section titled "Cursive Connection and Ligatures"(printed page #814, PDF page #850) that: "The zero width joiner and non-joiner characters are designed for use in plain

Re: ZWJ, ZWNJ and Markup languages.

On 11/27/2015 5:42 PM, Martin J. Dürst wrote: On 2015/11/28 04:55, Plug Gulp wrote: The Unicode standard 8.0 states in chapter 23, section titled "Cursive Connection and Ligatures"(printed page #814, PDF page #850)

Re: Aw: New Character Property for Prepended Concatenation Marks

On 11/26/2015 12:10 AM, "Jörg Knappen" wrote: I wonder how this concept relates to mathematical notation, especially the root sign. It doesn't, for several reasons. One, because mathematical

Re: New Character Property for Prepended Concatenation Marks

On 11/26/2015 2:41 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote: However the proposal for these prepended concatenation marks does not give any hint about how to compute the extent of the following clusters above/over/below/around which they will apply (do they

Re: New Character Property for Prepended Concatenation Marks

On 11/26/2015 3:08 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote: The related definition for extended grapheme clusters says: ( CRLF | Prepend* ( RI-sequence | Hangul-Syllable | !Control )        

Re: New Character Property for Prepended Concatenation Marks

On 11/26/2015 4:29 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote: 2015-11-26 12:38 GMT+01:00 Asmus Freytag (t) <asmus-...@ix.netcom.com <mailto:asmus-...@ix.netcom.com>>: On 11/26/2015 3:08 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote: The related definition for extended grapheme clusters says: ( CRLF

Re: UAX44: loose matching of symbolic values and the `is` prefix

On 6/6/2016 9:09 AM, Markus Scherer wrote: Interesting discussion! ICU does not support "is" nor "in" prefixes. I wasn't even aware that UAX #44 loose matching prescribes "is". ICU just implements what

Re: Latin Letters Capital and Small Theta

Just a note: for any living(!) language, it is important that Unicode not mix scripts, but instead disunify characters based on script. The reason for that is that in important implementations, such as URLs (domain names) there are restrictions that prevent

Re: compatibility features (was: Mende Kikakui Number 10)

On 6/11/2016 8:25 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: «If you add a [compatibility] feature to match behavior > [found] somewhere else [not in the Unicode standard], > it rarely pays to make that perform "better", because > it just means it's now different and no longer matches > [the behavior to which

Re: Mende Kikakui Number 10

On 6/10/2016 5:34 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote: There is the logic of how kikakui numbers are encoded in Unicode and there is the internal logic of the numeral system itself. They are not necessarily the same. This statement should be framed! A./

Re: Adding half-star to Unicode?

On 6/23/2016 3:01 PM, Garth Wallace wrote: But precedent is for separate WITH LEFT HALF BLACK and WITH RIGHT HALF BLACK geometric shapes. Correct - best to not mix mirroring defaults Also, I'm not sure if

Re: transliteration of mjagkij znak (Cyrillic soft sign)

On 2/8/2016 5:47 PM, Michael Everson wrote: It’s what I was taught as the scientific romanization for Russian and Slavic in general. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ Source? A./

Re: transliteration of mjagkij znak (Cyrillic soft sign)

On 2/8/2016 6:39 PM, Charlie Ruland wrote: Am 09.02.2016 schrieb Asmus Freytag (t): On 2/8/2016 5:47 PM, Michael Everson wrote: It’s what I was taught as the scientific romanization for Russian

Re: Case for letters j and J with acute

On 2/9/2016 1:36 PM, Ken Whistler wrote: On 2/9/2016 1:23 PM, David Faulks wrote: Perhaps Unicode could create a ‘default position’ property for combining characters, and encourage OpenType and other font engines to adopt

Re: Case for letters j and J with acute

On 2/9/2016 3:01 PM, Ken Whistler wrote: Just adapt IndicPositionalCategory.txt for Unibook, and you've got what you need. I see. Not quite as simple; Unibook needs overrides that are specifically able to correct bad fonts, not just "dumb" ones. We may want to honor some part of the

Re: transliteration of mjagkij znak (Cyrillic soft sign)

On 2/11/2016 6:05 AM, QSJN 4 UKR wrote: I can show an example of use both, prime (as soft sign) and apostroph (hemisoft) in Cyrilic-based phonetic transcription (Orthoepic Dictionary of Ukrainian, http://padaread.com/?book=84816=6 http://padaread.com/?book=84816=7)

Re: Shouldn’t the proposed U+23FF OBSERVER EYE SYMBOL be an emoji ?

On 2/7/2016 3:09 PM, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: In a few words (more details below), I think this character is actually used beyond optics should be encoded as an emoji with properties (and aspect) similar to  U+1F441 EYE, with a name like EYE SIDE

Re: Girl, 12, charged for threatening her school with emojis

On 2/28/2016 9:04 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: http://abc27.com/2016/02/27/girl-12-charged-for-threatening-emojis/ "The mother says the girl shouldn’t have been charged." In civilized countries 12-year-olds would be considered too young to

Re: Girl, 12, charged for threatening her school with emojis

On 2/28/2016 11:14 PM, Tex Texin wrote: However, how any of this belongs on the Unicode list is beyond me. Surely we do not need to comment on every use of emoji that occurs in the media. But there you are mistaken, my dear sir! We are constantly told that the discussions on this list

Re: Girl, 12, charged for threatening her school with emojis

On 2/29/2016 1:55 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote: . Well emojis were initially designed to track amotions and form a sort of new language, E-moji means "picture-character" in Japanese, has nothing to do (at first) with emotions. A./

Re: Copyleft Symbol

On 2/14/2016 3:36 PM, David Faulks wrote: Hello, This subject has been discussed before, but I am somehwat uncertain about something: If the copyleft (reversed ©) symbol was proposed for encoding, with examples (from PDF files) showing it being used in a similar

Re: Copyleft Symbol

On 2/14/2016 5:18 PM, Michael Everson wrote: On 15 Feb 2016, at 00:53, Asmus Freytag (t) <asmus-...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: On 2/14/2016 3:36 PM, David Faulks wrote: Hello, This subject has been discussed before, bu

Re: Copyleft Symbol

On 2/14/2016 7:42 PM, António Martins-Tuválkin wrote: On 2016.02.15 00:53, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: The key issue is whether this usage is "established". You can always make the case that what

Re: Copyleft Symbol

On 2/15/2016 9:32 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: Asmus Freytag wrote: with the non-standard symbols like the copyleft, there's the desire to not encode stuff based on "passing activism". David Faulks wrote: The samples I

Re: Copyleft Symbol

in the discussions here. A./ Thank You! On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Asmus Freytag (t) <asmus-...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: On 2/15/2016 9:32 AM, Doug

Re: Possible to add new precomposed characters for local language in Togo?

Mats, it is really useful to document (let me amend that to "immensely useful" to document) the required combinations (perhaps in a Unicode Technical Note on African Writing Systems). It may even be useful to ask for these sequences to become "named

Re: Character folding in text editors

On 2/20/2016 9:56 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: From: Philippe Verdy Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:27:41 +0100 Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion Unless we have case folding tailored by language, you cannot do that based on

Re: Character folding in text editors

On 2/21/2016 8:22 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: From: "Asmus Freytag (t)" <asmus-...@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:10:04 -0800 What about language-independent character-folding: where in the Unicode data

Re: Girl, 12, charged for threatening her school with emojis

usage remains for emotions ; starting in the 1970's these were ASCII art symbols such as the famous :-) 2016-02-29 23:24 GMT+01:00 Asmus Freytag (t) <asmus-...@ix.netcom.com>: On 2/29/2016 1:55 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote: . Well emojis were initially designed to track

Re: Gaps in Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols

On 3/9/2016 7:08 PM, Oren Watson wrote: I was surprised to find out that there are gaps in the Mathematical alphanumeric symbols block (U+1d400 to u+1d7ff). The gaps are associated with the inclusion of

Re: NamesList.txt as data source (was: Re: Gaps in Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols)

On 3/10/2016 2:14 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: Ken Whistler wrote: NamesList.txt should *not* be data mined. And yet it was the only Unicode data file utilized by MSKLC. There are many possible reasons for this approach, which we will probably

Re: Purpose of and rationale behind Go Markers U+2686 to U+2689

On 3/18/2016 11:11 AM, Garth Wallace wrote: The enclosure could also be something else than a circle (or arcs of > circle): it could be a rectangle, hintable with joiners (like with circles) > to create an enclosing square, or a rounded rectangle (hintable

Re: annotations

On 3/12/2016 10:55 PM, Janusz S. "Bień" wrote: In fact, the possibility of reuse in this context probably among the > unstated rationales for making the information and syntax available in > the first place. I understand there is no intention

Re: annotations

On 3/14/2016 11:33 AM, Janusz S. Bien wrote: Quote/Cytat - Doug Ewell (pon, 14 mar 2016, 19:22:14): Ken Whistler wrote: The trick is this: the status of annotational data in NamesList.txt is different than that of normative data like the code points, names, formal name

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