> On 17 May 2018, at 08:47, Garth Wallace via Unicode
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:42 AM, Hans Åberg via Unicode
>> wrote:
>>
>> It would be best to encode the SMuFL symbols, which is rather comprehensive
>> and include those:
>> https://www.smufl what should be unified.org
>>
Am 2018-05-16 um 22:46 Uhr hat Doug Ewell geschrieben:
2. Collation is different between the Assamese and Bengali languages,
and code point order should reflect collation order.
…
4. The use of a single encoded script to write two languages forces
users to use language identifiers to identify t
how to make custom combining diacritical marks for arabic letters?
should only font drivers and programs support it, or should also
unicode support it, for example, have special area for them?
as i know, private use area can be used to make combining diacritical
marks for latin script without prob
Otto Stolz wrote:
> I wonder how English and French ever could be made to use a single script,
> let alone German (“ß”), Icelandic (“þ”), Swedish (“å”), Latvian (“ē”), Chech
> (“č”) or – you name it.
Years ago I used to hand set metal type - letterpress printing was a family
hobby.
For a foun
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:41 AM Hans Åberg wrote:
>
> > On 17 May 2018, at 08:47, Garth Wallace via Unicode
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:42 AM, Hans Åberg via Unicode <
> unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> It would be best to encode the SMuFL symbols, which is rather
> compre
William Overington offered a suggestion,
⇒ Maybe people should be helping to get this resolved
⇒ to the satisfaction of all and helping rather than
⇒ criticising.
That's a noble thought, but as long as Assamese continues to be
written using the Eastern Nagari script, which is referred to as
"BENG
Hello,
There are several mentions of synchronization with related standards in
unicode.org, e.g. in https://www.unicode.org/versions/index.html, and
https://www.unicode.org/faq/unicode_iso.html. However, all such mentions
never mention anything other than ISO 10646.
I was wondering which ISO stan
> On 17 May 2018, at 16:47, Garth Wallace via Unicode
> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:41 AM Hans Åberg wrote:
>
> > On 17 May 2018, at 08:47, Garth Wallace via Unicode
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:42 AM, Hans Åberg via Unicode
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> It would be
This page describes the essentials of OpenType Arabic font development:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/script-development/arabic
On 5/17/2018 8:08 AM, Martinho Fernandes via Unicode wrote:
Hello,
There are several mentions of synchronization with related standards in
unicode.org, e.g. in https://www.unicode.org/versions/index.html, and
https://www.unicode.org/faq/unicode_iso.html. However, all such mentions
never mention
On 5/16/2018 3:41 PM, Anshuman Pandey
via Unicode wrote:
If folks are interested in a valid proposal for disunification of
Bengali, please look at the proposal for Tirhuta.
Location?
A./
Everyone,
I was not serious about this proposal being "fascinating" or in any way
a model for what should happen with the Bengali script.
Please imagine a tongue-in-cheek expression as you re-read my post.
Maybe there is an emoji that depicts this. Maybe I've just been away
from the list too long
I wrote:
> ক্ is a conjunct consisting of three code points
s/ক্/ক্ষ/
--
Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
On Wed, 16 May 2018 22:39:36 +0100
Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
> As an
> example of correct rendering, I include the Pali for 'O mind!', _bho
> mano_, encoded ,
> as rendered by the Lamphun font.
Sorry, wrong sequence, wrong font. The correct sequence is , which is rendered by the
La
On Thu, 17 May 2018 08:43:35 -0800
James Kass via Unicode wrote:
> This page describes the essentials of OpenType Arabic font
> development:
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/script-development/arabic
But isn't the problem that PUA diacritics won't reach most Arabic
shapers? I th
Otto Stolz wrote:
> I wonder how English and French ever could
> be made to use a single script, let alone
> German (???), Icelandic (???), Swedish (???),
> Latvian (???), Chech (???) or ? you name it.
They do use the same script, Latin. They do not use the same alphabet.
Each language has its ow
On Thu, 17 May 2018 09:49:55 +0300
dinar qurbanov via Unicode wrote:
> how to make custom combining diacritical marks for arabic letters?
> should only font drivers and programs support it, or should also
> unicode support it, for example, have special area for them?
>
> as i know, private use a
On Thu, 17 May 2018 11:43:00 -0700
Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> It is the same for Bengali and Assamese, although the
> language-specific subsets are called abugidas instead of alphabets.
If we allow an abugida to be different to an alphasyllabary, then, in
Thailand, Pali has a low brow *alph
On Wed, 16 May 2018 13:46:22 -0700
Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18181-n4947-assamese.pdf
>
> This is a fascinating proposal to disunify the Assamese script from
> Bengali on the following bases:
According to the proposal, the encoding for the Assamese writing
ISO character encoding standards are primarily focused on identifying a
repertoire of character elements and their code point assignments in some
encoding form. ISO developed other, legacy character-encoding standards in the
past, but has not done so for over 20 years. All of those legacy standa
It would be great if mutual synchronization were considered to be of benefit.
Some of us in SC2 are not happy that the Unicode Consortium has published
characters which are still under Technical ballot. And this did not happen only
once.
> On 17 May 2018, at 23:26, Peter Constable via Unicode
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 8:46 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode
wrote:
> On 5/16/2018 3:41 PM, Anshuman Pandey via Unicode wrote:
>
> If folks are interested in a valid proposal for disunification of
> Bengali, please look at the proposal for Tirhuta.
>
> Location?
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/111
Richard Wordingham wrote,
⇒ Your example appears to be using the font called 'A Tai Tham KH New'.
Exactly. The black boxes in the display were becoming tiresome. The
font package is available from this Tai Tham web page:
http://www.kengtung.org/download-font/
(I'd downloaded a copy of "lamphun
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