RE: Hex-byte pictures (WAS: RE: Hexadecimal digits?)

Hi Philippe! When dealing with protocol specifications, there's often a need for characters like these, too, since hex byte pictures are unambiguous. I have a DEC dumb terminal around here somewhere which also uses them when debugging control characters. I suppose you could argue it's

RE: Hex-byte pictures (WAS: RE: Hexadecimal digits?)

BTW, Frank also had other proposals which included the IBM 3270 characters I think you were referring to (poke around the directory at http://www.funet.fi/pub/kermit/ucsterminal/).. I am not proposing to encode all terminal function indicators in Unicode. Else it would mean that

RE: Hexadecimal digits?

Hi :) http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2677 N2677 Proposal for six Hexadecimal digits Ricardo Cancho Niemietz - individual contribution 2003-10-21 snip Could be interesting for processing, and I can see a reason for keeping these unique from U+0041-U+0046 but ultimately I thought the

RE: Hexadecimal digits?

Hi Philippe, http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2677 N2677 Proposal for six Hexadecimal digits Ricardo Cancho Niemietz - individual contribution 2003-10-21 snip Could be interesting for processing, and I can see a reason for keeping these unique from U+0041-U+0046

RE: Hexadecimal digits?

Hi Philippe, However personally, when dealing with a octet, or an arbitrary number of octets, I believe the byte-pictures would be much easier to deal with (especially when dealing with a lot of raw data). Except that it would require 256 new codepoints, instead of just 6 for the

RE: Traditional dollar sign

Hi! snip However, the presence of two opposing conventions serves as a strong hint that there was no consensus in 1966, nor now, as to how glyph variants of the dollar sign were to be used to stand for different types of dollars. I went to school in the 1980's, and both in Victoria and

Traditional dollar sign

Hi! Just a quick question.. The description for U+0024 (DOLLAR SIGN) states that the glyph may contain one or two vertical bars. Is there a codepoint specifically for the traditional double-bar form, or any plan to include one in the future? I was taught at school that the double-bar form was

RE: Traditional dollar sign

Hi! snip I was taught at school that the double-bar form was used when Australia switched to decimal currency in 1966, and that it was incorrect to write the single-bar form when referring to Australian dollars. It would be interesting if you could document that. That could be tough