Dates in Pipeline table

2002-11-16 Thread Doug Ewell
WatchThatPage notified me this morning that the Proposed New Characters table at http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html has been updated, to include characters and scripts discussed and accepted during the UTC meeting. However, the dates of the new items are in the format dd-mmm-yy,

Re: mixed-script writing systems

2002-11-16 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
Hmm, one way forward could be to add the 4 letters in question to the Latin script. There are examples of an analogue to this, namely adding Latin letters to the Cyrillic script. Best regards keld On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:17:57AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the Unicode design

baseline rule

2002-11-16 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Is there a Unicode character which could serve as a (spacing) baseline rule? I couldn't find a proper candidate. Note that I don't search an underscore (which is lower). Werner

[OT] Changes to ISO standards on i18n

2002-11-16 Thread Doug Ewell
For those who like to keep track of other ISO standards related to internationalization: The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency announced a change in the name of East Timor, the island nation that recently won independence from Indonesia, in ISO 3166-1 [1]. The new short name is Timor-Leste, while the

Re: mixed-script writing systems

2002-11-16 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2002.11.15, 20:59, Jim Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if so, if a typographical compromise has often occurred it could have been forgotten in time that it was originally a compromise, and the substituted symbols might now be thought to be the correct ones. In that case, they indeed

Re: mixed-script writing systems

2002-11-16 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2002.11.15, 21:05, Dean Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if groups A and B have exactly the same lowercase graphemic inventory, let's say {a, c, m, e}, but exhibit the following disparate properties: ... Group A pronounces the graphemic sequence acme as /acme/; group B as /stoi/.