Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-30 Thread Doug Ewell via Unicode
I wrote: > As others have stated, it was easily demonstrated that applications > existed in Japan which required a single code point for the era name. > That is what necessitated the acceptance, let alone fast-tracking, of > U+32FF SQUARE ERA NAME REIWA. Well, this is what I've heard, anyway.

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-30 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 01:32:02 -0700 Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: > On 9/30/2019 1:01 AM, Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote: > > On Sep 27, 1 Reiwa, at 08:17, Julian Bradfield via Unicode > wrote: > > Or one could allow IDS to have leaf components that are any > characters, not just

Aw: Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-30 Thread Marius Spix via Unicode
SMALL CAL TRIGRAPH and millimol as HALFWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER M +  HALF WIDTH LATIN SMALL MOL TRIGRAPH.   Marius Spix   Gesendet: Montag, 30. September 2019 um 10:32 Uhr Von: "Asmus Freytag via Unicode" An: unicode@unicode.org Betreff: Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph On 9

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-30 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 9/30/2019 1:01 AM, Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote: On Sep 27, 1 Reiwa, at 08:17, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote: Or one could allow IDS to have leaf components that are any characters, not just ideographic characters, and then one could

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-30 Thread Andre Schappo via Unicode
> On Sep 27, 1 Reiwa, at 08:17, Julian Bradfield via Unicode > wrote: > > Or one could allow IDS to have leaf components that are any > characters, not just ideographic characters, and then one could have > all sorts of fun. I do like this idea. Note: This is a modified repost as I

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-29 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 9/29/2019 7:42 AM, Andre Schappo via Unicode wrote: Or one could allow IDS to have leaf components that are any characters, not just ideographic characters, and then one could have all sorts of fun. I do like that idea André

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-29 Thread Doug Ewell via Unicode
Fred Brennan wrote: > The purpose of Unicode is plaintext encoding, is it not? The square TB > form is fundamentally no different than the square form of Reiwa, > U+32FF ㋿, which was added in a hurry. The difference is that SQUARE > TB's necessity and use is a slow thing which happened over

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-29 Thread Andre Schappo via Unicode
> Or one could allow IDS to have leaf components that are any > characters, not just ideographic characters, and then one could have > all sorts of fun. I do like that idea André Schappo

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-27 Thread Ken Whistler via Unicode
Fred, 2 hours and 33 minutes from now (today). But you don't need to try to synch a proposal like this to a particular script ad hoc meeting. That group meets roughly once a month, and any new proposal coming in right now wouldn't be on the Unicode 13.0 train, even if the UTC immediately

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-27 Thread Yifán Wáng via Unicode
> * Does the existence of the legacy Adobe encoding Adobe-Japan1-6 shift the > balance? It has a SQUARE TB at CID+8306. The code point suggests that it was already there as early as Adobe-Japan1-1 in 1993. The fact makes it seem certainly weird why it hasn't been included like its fellows nearby.

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-27 Thread Julian Bradfield via Unicode
On 2019-09-27, David Starner via Unicode wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:57 PM Fred Brennan via Unicode > wrote: [snip] >> There is no sequence of glyphs that could be logically mapped, unless you're >> telling me to request that the sequence T B be recommended for general >> interchange as

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-27 Thread David Starner via Unicode
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 8:57 PM Fred Brennan via Unicode wrote: > The purpose of Unicode is plaintext encoding, is it not? The square TB form is > fundamentally no different than the square form of Reiwa, U+32FF ㋿, which was > added in a hurry. The difference is that SQUARE TB's necessity and use

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-27 Thread James Kass via Unicode
On 2019-09-27 5:15 AM, Fred Brennan via Unicode wrote: I only have two lingering questions. * Does the existence of the legacy Adobe encoding Adobe-Japan1-6 shift the balance? It has a SQUARE TB at CID+8306. https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/font/pdfs/5078.Adobe-Japan1-6.pdf

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-26 Thread Fred Brennan via Unicode
I'm sorry to write twice to the list but after some discussion on Twitter it is certain I'm going to write a request. I only have two lingering questions. * Does the existence of the legacy Adobe encoding Adobe-Japan1-6 shift the balance? It has a SQUARE TB at CID+8306.

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-26 Thread Fred Brennan via Unicode
On Friday, September 27, 2019 3:56:39 AM PST Ken Whistler wrote: > On 9/26/2019 4:21 AM, Fred Brennan via Unicode wrote: > > There is a clear demand for a SQUARE TB. In the font SMotoya Sinkai W55 > > W3, > > which is ©2008 株式会社 モトヤ, the glyph is unencoded and accessed via the > > Discretionary

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-26 Thread Ken Whistler via Unicode
On 9/26/2019 4:21 AM, Fred Brennan via Unicode wrote: There is a clear demand for a SQUARE TB. In the font SMotoya Sinkai W55 W3, which is ©2008 株式会社 モトヤ, the glyph is unencoded and accessed via the Discretionary Ligatures (`dlig`) OpenType feature. It has name `T_B.dlig`. Aye, there's the

Re: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-26 Thread Doug Ewell via Unicode
Fred Brennan wrote: > I can't help but notice that there is no "SQUARE TB" glyph. Marius Spix replied: > Unfortunately, the CJK Compatibility block is full, but U+321F in the > Enclosed CJK Letters and Months seems to be free. I definitely see a usage > for the proposed character. IIRC

Aw: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-26 Thread Marius Spix via Unicode
rg Betreff: On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph Greetings, I can't help but notice that there is no "SQUARE TB" glyph. We have SQUARE KB, GB and MB, starting at U+3385. But no SQUARE TB? SQUARE GB is at U+3387, and U+3388 is...SQUARE CAL, ㎈, so no space was even left for it—not very future-

On the lack of a SQUARE TB glyph

2019-09-26 Thread Fred Brennan via Unicode
Greetings, I can't help but notice that there is no "SQUARE TB" glyph. We have SQUARE KB, GB and MB, starting at U+3385. But no SQUARE TB? SQUARE GB is at U+3387, and U+3388 is...SQUARE CAL, ㎈, so no space was even left for it—not very future-proof! The purposes of these glyphs is, as you