Re: IDC's versus Egyptian format controls

Martin J. Dürst wrote: > Is it only me or did you get some of this data wrong? Yes, sorry. There's an offset. I copy/pasted data from an archive which apparently predates the formal release of Ext C, and IIRC there was some shifting. Unfortunately the font I used to view the data matches the

Re: Coloured Characters

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:55:23 + (GMT) William_J_G Overington wrote: > Richard Wordingham wrote: > > > 'Foreground' and 'background' are the only externally defined > > colours. There's no ability to explicitly choose, say 'text stroked > > sable and dotted gules'.

Bidi edge cases in Hangul and Indic

Although the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm clearly defines how to reorder characters in memory, I don’t understand precisely what it means to display one character after another once they’ve been reordered; specifically, when bidi reordering changes the number of user-perceived characters. For

Re: Suggestions?

On 22.02.2018 05:01, David Starner via Unicode wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 7:55 AM Jeb Eldridge via Unicode wrote: Where can I post suggestions and feedback for Unicode? Here is as good as any place. There are specific places for a few specific things, but likely

Re: Bidi edge cases in Hangul and Indic

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 6:32 PM, Ken Whistler wrote: > > If you override the normal left-to-right ordering with bidi override > controls, then the layout order is reversed, but what is actually laid out > is those two glyphs. So you just reverse the order of the two syllables for > display, in

Re: Bidi edge cases in Hangul and Indic

David, On 2/22/2018 7:21 PM, David Corbett via Unicode wrote: My confusion stems from Unicode’s online bidi utility. That bidi utility has known defects in it. It is not yet conformant with changes to UBA 6.3, let alone later changes to UBA. And the mapping of memory position to display

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

On 2018/02/21 12:15, Michael Everson via Unicode wrote: I absolutely disagree. There’s a whole lot of related languages out there, and the speakers share some things in common. Orthographic harmonization between these languages can ONLY help any speaker of one to access information in any of

AW: metric for block coverage

Thanks a lot. If I understand it right, these are examples in Sanskrit language using Tamil script? More precisely, my question is whether there are examples in (today's) Tamil language using Danda or Double Danda. I tried to detect these characters in Tamil's Wikipedia texts, but I didn't