Andrew C. West scripsit:
> Thus, if "tb-lr" were supported, your browser would display the
> following HTML line as vertical Mongolian with embedded Ogham reading
> top-to-bottom, but in a plain text editor, the Mongolian and Ogham
> would both read LTR, and everyone would be happy :
I don't know
using that with the KATAKANA-HIRAGANA
> PROLONGED SOUND MARK?
Not sure, but I had understood that bopomofo i (which is just one stroke)
was rotated when vertical.
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d not hesitate in his 1821 poem about Don Juan
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, depending on which way the glyphs are rotated.
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ion
of lr-Latin is BTT, but any Han included will automatically be read TTB,
corrupting it.
*sigh*
One of my favorite lines in the Unicode Standard reads: "There simply
is no traditional Japanese method of typesetting Devanagari."
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Andrew C. West scripsit:
> The only thing that is certain is that Ogham must be rendered BTT in
> vertical contexts. For Ogham text in isolation this is fairly easy to
> accomplish by simple rotation, and one could expect "writing-mode
> : bt-rl" or "writing-mode : bt-lr" to accomplish this in a C
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enever I see "Langues'O", my mind insists on correcting it into
"Langues d'O", as in "Histoire d'O". Not that I read French.
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y.
It's obviously a font variant of Latin.
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y do not wish to pay, at least without some assistance from Unicode.
Hence my desire to have Phoenician and Hebrew collate together at the
first level (more for searching than for sorting).
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The Penguin shall hunt and devour al
a scheme layered on top of ASCII? And
what is KOI-7?
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were encoded in the ranges where ASCII has Latin
> letters (capital and small respectively).
Ah. And on what principle do you distinguish them? The IETF clearly
treats them both as charsets, within its definitions.
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&quo
th court card in each suit is called the Knight in English;
these should also be encoded.
This would call for 25 more cards. Documentation on the Tarot is
extensive and readily available.
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'Tis the Linux rebellion
Mark Davis scripsit:
> >LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE => O + /
That road quickly takes you to RFC 1345; I have some code for cracking
1345's format, and I should be able to prepare a mapping table fairly
soon.
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For XM
e:
first Hebrew with PH script, then Aramaic with Square script; finally
the Jews wind up with the law in Square Hebrew and the Samaritans
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"'My young friend, if you do not n
required vertical one (BTT).
As things now stand, Ogham must be wrapped in RLO...PDF brackets when
mixed with vertical Han or Mongolian.
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All
Y) or else that it extends over two characters (DOUBLE BREVE,
DOUBLE MACRON, DOUBLE MACRON BELOW, DOUBLE TILDE, DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE,
DOUBLE RIGHTWARDS ARROW BELOW). Of coure MUSICAL SYMBOL COMBINING DOUBLE
TONGUE is something else again.
Thank you. I feel much better now.
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ntation of Ogham has to have
knowledge of what overall directionality it is going to be imbedded in.
Both are Bad Things.
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.10 Perceived usefulness
> The fact that a symbol merely seems to be useful or potentially
> useful is precisely not a reason to code it. Demonstrated usage, or
> demonstrated demand, on the other hand, does constitute a good reason
> to encode the symbol.
Amen.
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D] Thanks.
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or Cyrillic letters (or digraphs); such a thing could
easily be constructed and mapped to Unicode, thanks to the Croat-specific
digraph compatibility characters present. That wouldn't make such
an encoding a Good Thing in the wider world, though.
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e been done in the past, I don't think that one
document is enough to support the introduction of new Latin letters;
these look extremely idiosyncratic, personal, novel and private use
to me.
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it was "pleasurable corrig
mber how astonished you and I were, looking over the text.
> Private use? Be
> serious, John. That's a pretty ridiculous suggestion.
I am serious. The PUA is the proper place for these things.
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ho need to interpret old
documents have some hope of doing so.
What we need is more evidence: either documentary evidence, or the
evidence of breathing Africanists.
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m, any more
than it's useful to encode most of the scripts in the Conscript Registry.
Find more documents, and the picture changes. (Find more Phaistos-type
disks, and that picture changes too.)
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ers garbage if the HTML is sufficiently
broken. TagSoup never gives up and never loops, but doesn't know
as much about HTML.)
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nicode/unicode.html, which
> discusses these issues.
Indeed.
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Michael Everson scripsit:
> At 14:11 -0400 2004-06-30, John Cowan wrote:
>
> >But the X WITH ACUTE characters there are exactly equivalent to the
> >X WITH TONOS characters in the main Greek block, and the ones in the
> >main Greek block are in fact preferred.
>
n running text.
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-- I wouldn't be able to reliably tell one
name from another.
This is true even though I have no more Greek, Hebrew, or Russian than
I have Arabic or Chinese.
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"If he has seen farther than others,
it is
spelling taken over from French at a time when French was pretty much
> the international common language at least in diplomacy and art.
Doubtless. I have even seen it spelled in German fashion in English a
time or two.
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or lea
, you often put a tilde over the letter preceding the "n".
> So e.g. "France" was "Frãce." I believe that this spelling was used
> until about the time of the French revolution.
In origin the tilde *was* a degenerate "n", of course.
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ne Irish, of course).
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I think I best switch to RELAX NG.
ect Southern Sinitic in any case; cf. Cantonese "pak king").
In addition, when it isn't the capital (bei jing = "North-capital"),
i.e. 1928-49, its name is Beiping ("north-peace").
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ves in New Delhi.
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/0439.
I think I agree with this: i-breve does not have the same universal status as
shch.
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'Tis the Linux rebellion / Let coders take their place,
The Linux-nationale / Shall Microsoft outpace,
We can write better
N, creating a new COMBINING UMLAUT
> character, would have caused *unprecedented and catastrophic*
> equivalence and normalization problems.
Indeed.
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Peter Kirk scripsit:
> But I think the best thing to do is to drop *all* Hebrew
> combining marks; the result of this is valid unpointed Hebrew.
I agree.
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lly or fully decomposed text.
I agree that in the TR#30 context, the Right Thing is to remove the
character pair mappings altogether, and all of the single-character
mappings that have canonical decompositions.
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I come fr
on it messes
up Ctrl-Shift and Ctrl-nonletter key combinations.
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t using the DDK.
No, it isn't everything, but it's a great deal, especially considering
the annoying behavior of the standard US-International keyboard.
Why not release your keyboard to the world?
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lines,
Peter Kirk scripsit:
> Anyway, is Yiddish in fact never written completely unpointed? That
> would surprise me.
It might have happened at some point, but the standard (YIVO) Yiddish
orthography would become illegible if points were stripped.
--
Principles. You can't say A is
rom the 0300 and 1DC0 blocks (the latter will
> be part of 4.1), and make some principled additions / deletions.
I'd say, start from the combining characters which are in ISO 10646
Level 3, and then add the combining characters from the abjads
(Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac).
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points and
accents, you have unpointed Hebrew.
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explicate them?
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Female celebrity stalker, on a hot morning in Cairo:
"Imagine, Colonel Lawrence, ninety-two already!"
El Auruns's reply: "Many happy returns of the day!"
is Alt, or rather AltGr, then. I presume the
Swedish-church-symbol is functioning as the variety of Alt that makes
keyboard accelerators.
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x27;s
up to rendering routines whether they appear as block, inline, or
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Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration
is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law Eng
r not, "ANSI" has two meanings now: the American National
Standards Institute and a generic term for an 8-bit Windows codepage.
Similarly, "OEM" means both an original equipment manufacturer and an
8-bit PC-DOS codepage.
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/~sakusha/dict/martin-je.html
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Consider the matter of Analytic Philosophy. Dennett and Bennett are well-known.
Dennett rarely or never cites Bennett, so Bennett
is used for other languages
besides Hebrew.
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"Mr. Lane, if you ever wish anything that I can do, all you will have
to do will be to send me a telegram asking and it will be done."
"Mr. Hearst, if you e
guages
have a letter named CHE distinct from the more usual, cross-linguistic
Cyrillic CHE. There is no such contrast in this case: we do not speak of
LATIN SMALL LETTER ICELANDIC THORN, for example.
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tion of whether the characters in question
are indeed unique to Yiddish or not. My other point stands.
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eading (but not totally so).
As for FHTORA, it's annoying, but I don't see how it can be read as
anything but FTHORA if you know anything about Greek at all, which is
probably why it was overlooked until it was too late.
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and the
c consider RTL to BE the "visual" order?
Of course. It's sheer ethnocentricism.
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nd then,
but I'm hardly a "database designer").
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dinosaurlike tails).--Elyse Grasso
ust as the standard way of serializing ints is to write them out
as a 4-byte big-endian sequence.
They simply have nothing to do with character encoding at all.
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hard
than C which does
not support strings containing U+ in most implementations.
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"But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter.
You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, i
ory
representation, which indeed is up to the JVM -- Java does not prescribe it.
> Those are design benefits. I was asking about the ability to represent
> text adequately.
Strings are not used solely to represent text; they are more general.
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gs.
Plus the original point of contention: binary serialization of Strings
through the DataInput and DataOutput interfaces.
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In might the Feanorians / that swore the unforgotten oath
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a pop-up window.
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24/7, but occasionally the need
to sleep or to engage in business (I was at a conference all last week)
or family business (a death in a friend's family) interferes with this
otherwise laudable goal.
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"In computer s
as 301 (octal). I believe that PR1ME
computers did this too.
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reward you have earned at least. Yet Saruman is apt to overlook his bargains.
I should advise you to go quickly and remind him, lest he forget your faithfu
not used in
interchange. For example, it would be reasonable to represent Unicode
characters as immediates on a virtual machine by using some pattern in
the upper bits that flags them as characters.
--
Eric Raymond is the Margaret Mead John Cowan
of the Open Source movemen
acts of self-abnegation, WG2 has a fixed
policy of not overriding the UTC or vice versa.
> Here in Europe it does not go down well when US bodies claim the right
> to make decisions for the whole world,
It's a mistake to think of the Consortium as a U.S. body.
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neither necessary nor practical.
(U+0132 and U+0133 are encoded for compatibility only.) In cases where
ij is a digraph in Dutch text, i+ZWNJ+j will be effective.
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Drive away bad air and
sensus cannot be reached, the proposal is eventually dropped, I suppose.
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the rest imaginaryhttp://www.reutershealth.com
like a quaternion --phma http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
ly have the widest coverage of any font, though it costs US$5
to use them. Both of them IMHO are a tad on the ugly side.
Googling for "free Unicode fonts" (no quotes) is useful.
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One Access to f
f the file system's. Some higher-level tools, such as
directory listers and shells, have hardwired assumptions, others have
changeable assumptions, but all are assumptions.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every
ke fonts which the buyer keeps to himself?)
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develop schemas is one of the simplehttp://www.reutershealth.com
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to go quickly and remind him, lest he forget your faithful
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ere*,
reserved, unassignable for actual character encoding.
Plane E would be a plausible location.
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han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, LOTR:FOTR
not all
the software made is paid for, not by a long chalk, and most of what is
made is not sold to anyone. Neither of these things is true of fonts
in any but the most trivial ways -- yet.
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I amar prestar aen, han mathon n
isn't going to
> fly even two feet, I think the whole idea is going to be
> a complete non-starter.
I agree that that part won't fly, absolutely.
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are the same thing. --Hannah Arendthttp://www.ccil.org/~cowan
ic* combining code point
when it appears immediately after a tag.
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"characters" mean in this sentence. Code points?
> Combining character sequences? Something else?
Neither. Unicode characters.
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a "please" to that verb is a little
> too much, don't you think?
It's also pervasive in English: SALT talks, OPEC countries (or nations),
Missisippi River, Gobi Desert.
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idiosyncratic, personal, novel, or priv
but in terms of
characters. XML processors are required to process UTF-8 and UTF-16,
and may process other character encodings or not. But the internal
model is that of characters. Thus surrogate code points are not
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t; identifiers and URIs, through escaping mechanisms.
Not true. U+ is absolutely excluded in both XML 1.0 and XML 1.1.
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rather dance with the c
n an XML document, and that document is put through
NF(K)D, it will become not well-formed. However, NF(K)D is not
recommended for XML documents, which should be in NFC.
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r reply is requested".
Later came the "RSVP card", a small card included with the invitation
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an invitation marked 'RSVP'."
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hat an
ill-formed code is semantically different from an untranslatable
character, which is the purpose of U+FFFD.
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achieved by assuming it 99% of the time.
(A private correspondent has come up with an ingenious trick which
depends on being able to create files named 0x08 and 0x7F, but it
truly is a trick, and in any case depends only on an ASCII interpretation.)
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use this hack
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Humpty Dump Dublin sq
or FF00-FFEF, and nothing in that document explains to me
> why these characters are necessary. Does anyone have any clues on that one?
Fullwidth characters are used for backward compatibility with CJK character
sets, which have a notion of "fullwidth" and "halfwidth" character
; vowel over
the "p" consonant at the beginning of the second line.
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Micropayment advocates mistakenly believe that efficient allocation of
resources is the purpose of markets. Efficiency is a byproduct of
uot; mean when attached to
a sequence of characters? I understood that every sequence of
characters whatsoever is permitted.
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nt coin) in change, or you could buy the item with
dime and get no change. Mark Twain, unsurprisingly, found a way to
beat the system: go to the Post Office and buy a 5-cent stamp, then
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No ot
x27;assembly field'.)
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Be yourself. Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where
no such knowledge exists. Neither be cynical about RELAX NG; for in
the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the world of markup,
Jame
this is my version of a troll, because I knew a) that
probably wasn't right and b) I was gonna get called on it.
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[P]olice in many lands are not complaining that local arrestees are insisting
on having their Mira
ll legacy texts (now including
legacy Unicode texts!) and disambiguate every instance of A-F/a-f between
alphabetic and hexanumeric uses would be inconceivable. The justification
for not splitting off Turkish i and I from general Latin, due to their
unusual case mappings, is exactly the same.
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#x27;s also true that
U.S. fluid ounces are about 4% bigger than Imperial ones. So in fact
a U.S. gallon is about 83% of an Imperial one. Quarts and pints are
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e. Of course it's
the *pint* (8 pints to a gallon) that is 16 or 20 fluid ounces.
> Such is the confusion inherent in the Flintstone system.
Indeed.
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just right. The Imperial pint is .57 liters, whereas the Flintstone one
is only .47 liters.
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eing one size,
a firkin of wine in London another, whereas in the rest of England a
firkin, of beer or wine indifferently, was still a third size?
Pints, unlike fifths, are in general use. Leave bad enough alone.
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preferred that it's worth having two characters so as to avoid getting the
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> So, yes, I agree with Jim. Let's not have too many duplicates. But I still
> have to ask why there are so many already?
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