RE: Unicode education in Schools

Use String.codePointAt() etc. El ago. 24, 2017 10:42 PM -0700, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode , escribió: > IIUC the limitation seems to be only that functions such as "charAt" do not > recognize that surrogates aren't valid characters: > > https://developer

Question about Karabakh Characters

Hi there, The Karabakh language uses Armenian characters, but the following characters do not have a Unicode assigned. (image1.JPG attached) They are pronounced "Yi", "Ini" and "Eh" and used with several combinations. (Image2.JPG attached) Is there any reason these characters are not supported

RE: Question about Karabakh Characters

, Kazunari Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion Subject: Re: Question about Karabakh Characters They are not encoded, but that example is not sufficient. If you’d like to contact me offline we can discuss this further. Michael Everson > On 4 Oct 2017, at 08:39, via Unicode wrote: > > Hi there,

Re: Plane-2-only string

With over a thousand Zhuang characters, Zhuang would work, though of course would not have punctuation. Of the top of my head something like:- 𭆸𭆛𦘭𭓨𬾀𬿇 𭆸𭆨𭓨𮤯𫩒𬖙 𬻹𭓨𡍹𬙙𠷯𪽖 In romanised Zhuang:- Gou bae ranz gyoengqde gou youq ranz ndaw gwn haeux aen ranz baihlaeng miz naz In English:- I went to

RE: Plane-2-only string

m floor of tradional house used for livestock and people live in floor above.] However third and eighth characters are not the most common used. Regards John On 14.11.2017 06:38, Peter Constable via Unicode wrote: I discussed this with one of my Chinese co-workers, and we came u

Support for Extension F

Dear All, As many of you are aware getting characters encoded is only half the battle, enabling people to use them is the other half. CJK Extenion F was added last year in Unicode 10. I have come across a number of people saying they are having problems with Ext F. I was wondering what the

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 if you do have something

Re: Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption!

On 01.03.2018 06:33, Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: 2018-02-28 14:22 GMT+01:00 Christoph Päper via Unicode : There are approximately 7,000 living human languages, but fewer than 100 of these languages are well-supported on computers, mobile phones, and other devices. Fewer than 100

Re: Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption!

Dear All, to simplify discussion I have split the points. On 05.03.2018 16:57, Phake Nick via Unicode wrote: 在 2018年3月5日週一 13:25，Martin J. Dürst via Unicode 寫道： Hello John, On 2018/03/01 12:31, via Unicode wrote: Third, I cannot confirm or deny the "500 characters a year" limit

Re: Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption!

Dear All, here is reply to points one and two. On 05.03.2018 16:57, Phake Nick via Unicode wrote: 在 2018年3月5日週一 13:25，Martin J. Dürst via Unicode 寫道： Hello John, On 2018/03/01 12:31, via Unicode wrote: > Pen, or brush and paper is much more flexible. With thousands of names > of

Re: CJK Ideograph Encoding Velocity (was: Re: Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption!)

unified ideographs that need to be encoded but they illustrate the problem that if future working have a 1,000 limit per member which submissions every 2 or 3 years, then it delay the encoding on CJK unified ideographs by years. On 06.03.2018 01:40, Ken Whistler via Unicode wrote: John, I think

Re: Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption!

. Place names tend to be even older. Regards John On 08.03.2018 04:26, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:42:15 +0800 via Unicode wrote: In most cases the answer to the above may well be the same, the unencoded names of people and places are not new names, How many

Re: Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption!

Dear Phillip On 08.03.2018 05:12, Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: So most of the growth in Han characters is caused by people inventing and registering new sinograms for their own names, using the basic principles of combining a phonogram and a distinctive semantic character. This is not

Re: Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption!

On 08.03.2018 06:18, Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: Additional note: the UCS will never large enough to support the personal signatures of billions Chinese people living today or born since milleniums, or jsut those to be born in the next century. Theres a need to represent these names

Re: Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption!

On 09.03.2018 09:17, Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: This still leaves the question about how to write personal names ! IDS alone cannot represent them without enabling some "reasonable" ligaturing (they dont have to match the exact strokes variants for optimal placement, or with al

Re: Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption!

Dear Richard, On 09.03.2018 07:06, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: On Thu, 08 Mar 2018 09:42:38 +0800 via Unicode wrote: to the best of my knowledge virtually no new characters used just for names are under consideration, all the ones that are under consideration are from before this

VS: Major vendors changing U+1F52B PISTOL 🔫 depiction from firearm to squirt gun

I’d treat these as glyph changes within fonts. Sincerely Erkki I. Kolehmainen Lähettäjä: Unicode Puolesta Abe Voelker via Unicode Lähetetty: keskiviikko 23. toukokuuta 2018 18.54 Vastaanottaja: unicode@unicode.org Aihe: Major vendors changing U+1F52B PISTOL 🔫 depiction from firearm

RE: The Unicode Standard and ISO

I cannot but fully agree with Mark and Michael. Sincerely Erkki I. Kolehmainen Mannerheimintie 75 B 37, 00270 Helsinki, Finland Mob: +358 400 825 943 -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: Unicode Puolesta Michael Everson via Unicode Lähetetty: torstai 7. kesäkuuta 2018 16.29 Vastaanottaja

Re: Private Use areas (was: Re: Thoughts on working with the Emoji Subcommittee (was ...))

On 2018-08-21 08:04, Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode wrote: On 08/20/2018 03:12 PM, Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode wrote: ... some people who would call a PUA solution either batty > or crazy. I don't think it is either batty or crazy. People can certainly use the PUA to interchange text (

RE: Private Use areas - Vertical Text

Dear Richard and Peter, apologies for the lack of clarity. Let me try to explain below. On 2018-08-29 01:13, WORDINGHAM RICHARD via Unicode wrote: On 27 August 2018 at 15:22 Peter Constable via Unicode wrote: Layout engines that support CJK vertical layout do not rely on the 'vert

Re: Private Use areas - Vertical Text

Dear Andrew, I was using a change horizontal to vertical text feature in office, the PUA characters being from plane 15. Regards John On 2018-08-29 16:32, Andrew West via Unicode wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 05:07, via Unicode wrote: Yes, as Richard says when CJK Zhuang text is

Compatibility Casefold Equivalence

Hi,In Chapter 3 Section 13, the Unicode spec defines D146:"A string X is a compatibility caseless match for a string Y if and only if: NFKD(toCasefold(NFKD(toCasefold(NFD(X) = NFKD(toCasefold(NFKD(toCasefold(NFD(Y)"I am trying to understand the "if and only if" part of this.   Specifically

RE: A last missing link for interoperable representation

On 11.01.2019 11:43, Tex via Unicode wrote: Martin, James is making the case there is demand or a user need and that the proof is that users are using inconsistent tactics to simulate a solution to their problem. The use of math characters is mostly to get around limitations of Twitter

Unihan variants information

I've developped an open-source, multi-platform desktop application called Unicode Plus , which is a set of utilities related to Unicode, Unihan and emoji. The basic Unihan-related utilities are almost completed, and now I would like to add more usef

Re: Unihan variants information

>> I've developped an open-source, multi-platform desktop application >> called Unicode Plus > > Before you get too heavily invested in this product name, you may want > to: > > 1. check out the page "Unicode® Copyright and Terms of Use" located at > http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html, and >

Re: Unihan variants information

> Le 28 janv. 2019 à 19:49, Doug Ewell via Unicode a > écrit : > > Michel MARIANI wrote: > >> I've developped an open-source, multi-platform desktop application >> called Unicode Plus > > Before you get too heavily invested in this product name, you may

Unihan definitions bug report

I have prepared a Markdown document available on GitHub which is a list of corrections of typos that I found using a spellchecker in the kDefinition field of the Unihan_Readings.txt data file. Unfortunately, there are several typos

RE: PUA (BMP) planned characters HTML tables

Robert Wheelock wrote: > I remember that a website that has tables for certain PUA precomposed > accented characters that aren’t yet in Unicode (thing like: > Marshallese M/m-cedilla, H/h-acute, capital T-dieresis, capital H- > underbar, acute accented Cyrillic vowels, Cyrillic ER/er-caron, ...).

Unihan kJapaneseKun Error Report

I have uploaded on the dedicated GitHub repository GitHub repository a draft version of a document called "Unihan kJapaneseKun Error Report" available both in Markdo

Unihan kJapaneseKun Error Report [Follow-up: Fixed wrong URL]

Follow-up: [Fixed wrong URL] I have uploaded on the dedicated GitHub repository a draft version of a document called "Unihan kJapaneseKun Error Report" available both in Markdown and HTML format, which is a list of corrections o

AW: Geological symbols

#x27;t know how widespread the use of LateX is among geologists, but notation like this is a perfect use case for LaTeX. --Jörg Knappen Gesendet: Montag, 13. Januar 2020 um 12:20 Uhr Von: "Thomas Spehs (MonMap) via Unicode" mailto:unicode@unicode.org> > An: unicode@unicode.

Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

Dear Ken An interesting comparison, if strange means dubious, then the name kstrange should be changed or some of the content removed because many of the characters in the set are not dubious in the least. Regards John On 2020-02-14 04:08, Ken Whistler via Unicode wrote: You want "du

Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

living script so new characters come and go, not all become widespread in there use. "Egyptologist" is certainly an outlier, an certainly strange to me. One question is what do "Egyptologist" think of it. John On 2020-02-14 08:13, Ken Whistler via Unicode wrote: Well, no, i

Re: What should or should not be encoded in Unicode? (from Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop)

g like SGML/XML entities? Couldn't you simply capitalize on the rules that already exist for entities? Best wishes, jk -- Joel Kalvesmaki Director, Text Alignment Network http://textalign.net On 2020-02-14 15:52, wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode wrote: The solution is to invent my own encod

Re: Why do binary files contain text but text files don't contain binary?

Dear Roger, because in when unicode is used in real life, utf8 etc then text ⊂ binary John Knightley On 2020-02-21 20:21, Costello, Roger L. via Unicode wrote: Hi Folks, There are binary files and there are text files. Binary files often contain portions that are text. For example, the

Header changes for the Unicode Mail List

Hello everyone, You may notice a change in the way mail headers are handled for this mail list, and it might affect Reply and Reply All functionality in whatever client you are using to read and respond to e-mail. This change is related to DMARC handling on some sites, and how that inter-operates

Petition to ban Google from designing emoji

http://blog.emojipedia.org/rip-blobs-google-redesigns-emojis/ Is this some kind of joke? Have Google put ANY thought into their emoji design? First they bastardise the cute blob emoji, then they make their emoji gendered, now they've literally just copied Apple's emoji. It's sickening. Disgusting.

Re: Petition to ban Google from designing emoji

s valuable and I’m sad to see it go. > > And a serious response to this joke letter: Given that Google pays $18,000 > / > annum to vote on new emoji, it seems unlikely that the Consortium will just > kick them out. > > > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 7:40 AM, zelpa via Unicode >

Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

Is it possible to design fonts that will render ẞ as SS? So we could choose between ẞ and SS by just selecting the proper font, without changing the text itself. Or perhaps there will be a "font feature" to select this rendering within the same font.

A criteria for Emoji property assignment?

I wonder what reason lies behind Unicode Consortium’s declaring some decorative characters as emojis while leaving some other in the state of regular characters. For example: 1. Four arrows (←↑→↓, 2190…2193) are not emojis, while the four diagonal arrows in the same Unicode block (↖↗↘↙, 2196…2

FW: Plane-2-only string i18nguy supplementary-test page

justified. Tex From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Verdy via Unicode Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 12:58 PM To: James Kass Cc: Peter Constable; Unicode list Subject: Re: Plane-2-only string 2017-11-13 21:48 GMT+01:00 James Kass : Peter Const

CLDR Keyboard and Layout discussion

Greetings and Happy New Year, The discussion of CLDR Keyboards and layout is getting lengthy and it should probably be moved to the CLDR-Users mail list where it is more appropriate. Especially because it is so technically detailed. Please see this page for instructions about how to subscribe: ht

Emoji as East Asian Width = Wide

Why are the new emoji like U+1F600 Grinning Face EAW=Wide when other dingbats like U+263A Smiling Face are EAW=Neutral? This is making it difficult to have consistent formatting across emoticons. Also, emoji aren't really CJK context only now, are they. https://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.

Sentence_Break, Semi-colons, and Apparent Miscategorization

Given that the comma and colon are categorized as SContinue, why is the semicolon also not SContinue? Also, why is the Greek Question Mark not categorized with the rest of the question marks? Why aren't the vertical presentation forms categorized with the things they are presenting? Thanks~ ~fa

Re: Sentence_Break, Semi-colons, and Apparent Miscategorization

/tr29/proposed.html#SContinue Yes. On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:25 AM, fantasai via Unicode mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: > Given that the comma and colon are categorized as SContinue, > why is the semicolon also not SContinue? > Also, why is the Greek Question Mark not categor

Re: The Unicode Standard and ISO [localizable sentences]

The topic of localizable sentences is now closed on this mail list. Please take that topic elsewhere. Thank you. On 6/12/2018 10:49 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode wrote: > That is often a viable approach. But proponents shouldn't get the wrong impression. I think the chance of

Re: Unicode Arabic Mark Rendering UTR #53 Now Published

The paper adopted treats the word shown (fa-ʾulāʾika) writing with an unkown letter + kasra below + hamza below. I thought, in Unicode I should use 'ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE' (U+0626) or its phonological equivilant 'ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA BELOW' (U+0826) or the basic letter 'ARA

RE: Base64 encoding applied to different unicode texts always yields different base64 texts ... true or false?

an example or additional details of how 2 base64 strings might be equivalent. Tex From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of J Decker via Unicode Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 9:29 AM To: d...@ewellic.org Cc: Unicode Discussion Subject: Re: Base64 encoding

Re: Fallback for Sinhala Consonant Clusters

d redo the segmentation and lookup(s). Perhaps that is not happening in Harfbuzz. 4) I've been out of the loop for many years, so I have CC'd Ruvan & Harsha who may already be aware of what you have observed. cya, # On 14/10/18 11:02 am, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: > Are there

RE: Base64 encoding applied to different unicode texts always yields different base64 texts ... true or false?

differ on define where the encoding begins and ends, and where higher level protocols prescribe how they are embedded within the protocol. Tex From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Verdy via Unicode Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2018 1:41 AM To: Adam

RE: Base64 encoding applied to different unicode texts always yields different base64 texts ... true or false?

protocols prescribe how they are embedded within the protocol. Tex From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Verdy via Unicode Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2018 1:41 AM To: Adam Borowski Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion Subject: Re: Base64 encoding

Re: Fallback for Sinhala Consonant Clusters

Hi Richard, On 15/10/18 6:53 pm, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 01:55:24 +1100 > Harshula via Unicode wrote: > >> 3) However, what you have observed is an issue with *explicit* >> conjunct creation. After the segmentation is completed, the >

Re: Fallback for Sinhala Consonant Clusters

Hi Richard, On 16/10/18 6:57 am, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 02:47:36 +1100 > Harshula via Unicode wrote: > >> Note, touching letters are formed by , so they should >> not be displayed as a fallback for conjuncts. > > I don't f

Re: Fallback for Sinhala Consonant Clusters

Hi Richard, On 16/10/18 2:29 pm, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:59:54 +1100 > Harshula via Unicode wrote: > >> Hi Richard, >> >> On 16/10/18 6:57 am, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: >>> On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 02:47:36 +

Re: A sign/abbreviation for "magister"

Ci miejscowoci ?adresować? do Staszki jak tyś chciała pisać (W.Pan Mr Michał Gałkiewicz Feldspital 411 Feldpost 380.) Mr znaczy Magister. On przy tem szpitalu aptekarzem. całuję Cię ze wargatkiem Mami rączki Twój Kochający Włodek 12/9 917 pozdrawiam, Rein Sat, 27 Oct 2018 13:10:20 +0200 schreef Jan

Re: A sign/abbreviation for "magister"

phrase... rączki Twój Kochający Włodek 12/9 917 pozdrawiam, Rein Nawzajem :-) Sat, 27 Oct 2018 13:10:20 +0200 schreef Janusz S. Bień via Unicode : [...] The second question is: are you familiar with such or a similar symbol? Have you ever seen it in print? The postcard is from the fr

Re: A sign/abbreviation for "magister"

Am 28.10.2018 um 09:13 schrieb Richard Wordingham via Unicode: The notation is a quite widespread format for abbreviations. the first letter is normal sized, and the subsequent letter is written in some variety of superscript with a squiggle underneath so that it doesn't get overlooked. I

RE: Aleph-umlaut

resis is a collapsed form of Alef followed by Gershayim when it is used as a numeric value. I wonder if that may also occur for other values. (I am just speculating.) Tex -Original Message- From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Marius Spix via Unicode Sent: Friday,

Re: Compatibility Casefold Equivalence

(It looks like my HTML email got scrubbed, sorry for the double post) Hi, In Chapter 3 Section 13, the Unicode spec defines D146: "A string X is a compatibility caseless match for a string Y if and only if: NFKD(toCasefold(NFKD(toCasefold(NFD(X) = NFKD(toCasefold(NFKD(toCasefold(NFD(Y)))

Re: Compatibility Casefold Equivalence

Thanks for the reply.Responses inline: > On November 24, 2018 at 5:33 PM Asmus Freytag via Unicode > wrote: > > > On 11/22/2018 11:58 AM, Carl via Unicode wrote: > > (It looks like my HTML email got scrubbed, sorry for the double post) > > > > Hi, >

RE: A last missing link for interoperable representation

James Kass wrote: If a text is published in all italics, that’s style/font choice. If a text is published using italics and roman contrastively and consistently, and everybody else is doing it pretty much the same way, that’s a convention. Asmus Freytag responded: But not all co

RE: A last missing link for interoperable representation

Martin, James is making the case there is demand or a user need and that the proof is that users are using inconsistent tactics to simulate a solution to their problem. The response that: "Almost by definition, styled text isn't plain text, even if it's simulated by something else." is a bit

RE: A last missing link for interoperable representation

> But even most adults won't know the rules for what to italicize that > have been brought up in this thread. Even if they have read books that > use italic and bold in ways that have been brought up in this thread, > most readers won't be able to tell you what the rules are. That's left > to c

RE: A last missing link for interoperable representation

"Looking back at the history of computing, a large chunk of the underlying technology has hit stability. ARM chips, x86 chips, Unix, and Windows have all been around since 1985 or before, roughly 35 years ago and 35 years since the first programmed computer. They aren't wildly changing." I would

RE: A last missing link for interoperable representation

This thread has gone on for a bit and I question if there is any more light that can be shed. BTW, I admit to liking Asmus definition for functions that span text being a definition or criteria for rich text. I also liked James examples of the twitter use case. The arguments against ital

RE: A last missing link for interoperable representation

solution could be a big win for these apps. tex From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag via Unicode Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 1:21 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: A last missing link for interoperable representation On 1/14/2019 2:08

RE: Encoding italic

would be to the apps that would benefit, to add italicizing and editing capabilities. tex From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag via Unicode Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 10:34 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Encoding italic On 1/24

RE: Encoding italic

s and voila. (You don’t need a car. When I went to school we walked 6 miles to get there. Uphill both ways. J ) tex From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag via Unicode Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:20 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Enc

RE: Encoding italic

sting alternatives, like math italic characters, are problematic. tex -Original Message- From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of David Starner via Unicode Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 11:59 PM To: Unicode Mailing List Subject: Re: Encoding italic On

RE: Emoji Haggadah

Oy veh! From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode Sent: Monday, April 15, 2019 5:27 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Emoji Haggadah The only thing more disturbing than the existence of The Emoji Haggadah (https://www.amazon.com/Emoji

Proposal to extend the U+1F4A9 Symbol

Greetings, I hope I dont intrude too much on this list with a proposal. U+1F4A9, aka the 'pile of poo' emoji, has gained somewhat of a legendary status in the modern society [1]. With the somewhat recent addition of skin tones in the Emoji Modifier Sequences, I think there is some small room t

RE: Proposal to extend the U+1F4A9 Symbol

What I would find useful is an emoji for when my phone falls into the toilet. -Original Message- From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell via Unicode Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2019 2:04 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Proposal to extend the U

Re: Unihan definitions bug report

Thank you. I’ve forwarded this to Unihan experts and hopefully we’ll get some feedback to you very soon. > On Jul 3, 2019, at 7:02 AM, via Unicode wrote: > > I have prepared a Markdown document available on GitHub > <https://github.com/tonton-pixel/Unihan-Definitions-Bug-Rep

RE: Removing accents and diacritics from a word

Asmus, are you including the case where an accented character maps to two unaccented characters? e.g. Å to AA or Ä to AE From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 11:07 AM To: Norbert Lindenberg Cc

Re: LDML Keyboard Descriptions and Normalisation

Slightly off topic: Is there a CLDR tool to try out transformations specified in a keyboard spec? On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 7:54 PM Richard Wordingham via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 18:03:18 + > Andrew Glass via Unicode wrote: > > > Hi Richa

Re: The native name of Tai Viet script and language(s)

On 27/08/2019 07:33, Eli Zaretskii via Unicode wrote: Yes, it's an old and outdated text (Emacs is around since 1985, and supports multilingual text editing since 1997). Easy to fix, and I will fix it, but my main difficulty is with the text that uses the script itself, which is why I

Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

Thanks for addressing this. Here is my response: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K6L82VRmCGc9Fb4AOitNk4MT7Nu4V8aKUJo_1mW5X1o/ In summary, my take is: The sequence for ൻ്റ (<>) should not be legitimized as an alternate encoding; but should be recognized as a prevailing non-standard legacy enc

Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

Yes; it is now available as L2/19-348 . On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 11:03 PM Asmus Freytag (c) wrote: > Have you submitted that response as a UTC document? > A./ > > On 10/6/2019 2:08 PM, Cibu wrote: > > Thanks for addressing this. Here is

comma ellipses

Now that comma ellipses (,,,) are a thing (at least on social media) do we need a character proposal? Asking for a friend,,, J tex

RE: comma ellipses

heavy irony is still something that I’m working on figuring out….” From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Asmus Freytag via Unicode Sent: Sunday, October 6, 2019 10:21 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: comma ellipses On 10/6/2019 8:21 PM, Garth Wallace via

Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:05 PM 梁海 Liang Hai wrote: > > Prior to Unicode 5.2, the encoding of the cluster [glyph] (< N, subscript RRA>> /ntʌ/) was not clearly defined. … > > > You mean 5.1, right? The encoding has been specified since 5.1. > I couldn't get the text for 5.1 from https://www.unicod

Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

> > Oh the Core Spec’s 5.0 -> 5.1 delta is presented on the webpage itself, > but not incorporated into the PDF: > > https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/#Malayalam_Chillu_Characters > > Thanks for pointing this out. 🙏 I had missed it. > Here is the difference between our approaches. You pr

Re: [unihan] Unihan variants information

Very impressive! Thank you for this. > On Jan 17, 2020, at 6:03 AM, Michel Mariani via Unihan > wrote: > > FYI, the "Unihan Variants" utility has been recently added to the open-source > application Unicopedia Plus . > It provides both the linea

RE: Coloured Punctuation and Annotation

Michael, your two-tone effect can easily be added into your first font using COLR and CPAL tables, so that the one font can support a monochrome rendering that uses glyphs in which the swirls are fused with the letters, and can also support a poly-chrome rendering in which those glyphs are decom

Re: Coloured Punctuation and Annotation

On 10 Apr 2017, at 19:32, Peter Constable via Unicode wrote: > > Michael, your two-tone effect can easily be added into your first font using > COLR and CPAL tables, so that the one font can support a monochrome rendering > that uses glyphs in which the swirls are fused with the

Re: Coloured Punctuation and Annotation

On 10 Apr 2017, at 17:30, Peter Constable wrote: Sorry, Peter. I didn’t realize you weren’t talking about chess fonts. Michael

RE: Coloured Punctuation and Annotation

The color palette entries (CPAL) used for COLR or SVG can potentially be customized by an application — whether for user customization or to fit some context (such as selection). Peter -Original Message- From: Asmus Freytag (c) [mailto:asm...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017

RE: Coloured Punctuation and Annotation

William: Michael's scenario doesn't require a special palette index value such as you propose since (i) he could implement a font with alternate palettes to provide different colouring options of his choosing, and (ii) an app can always expose customization options to allow the user to customiz

Re: Unicode vs. Unikod

On 04/10/2017 08:14 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote: "Unicoding" (and related verb forms without the necessary leading capital) can legitimately be found to just refer to the UCS or the ISO 10646 standard, not just the "Unicode Consortium" and its standard(s), activities or domain name/web site, or an

Re: Coloured Punctuation and Annotation

Michael isn’t trying to make any coloured fonts. Michael > On 10 Apr 2017, at 23:08, Peter Constable via Unicode > wrote: > > William: > > Michael's scenario doesn't require a special palette index value such as you > propose since (i) he could implement a

RE: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

Oh look, I was just waiting for someone to mention Adolf Hitler, and then for someone to invoke Godwin’s observation, and for the whole thing to go up in a puff of smoke. Whew. 😉 From: Asmus Freytag [mailto:asm...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Sunday, April 9, 2017 7:24 AM To: unicode@unicode.org Subje

RE: PETSCII mapping?

From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca T Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 2:26 PM > As time goes on, “not in widespread use” will become a flimsier and flimsier > argument against inclusion — why isn’t there a larger community of PETSCII > enthusaists? Partially beca

RE: Unicode vs. Unikod

[mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Aleksey Tulinov via Unicode Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 1:11 AM To: verd...@wanadoo.fr Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion Subject: Re: Unicode vs. Unikod On 04/10/2017 08:14 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote: > "Unicoding" (and related verb

Re: Unicode vs. Unikod

2017-04-11 0:10 GMT+02:00 Aleksey Tulinov : > It's probably this link: http://unicode.org/standard/Un > icodeTranscriptions.html This page is hard to find, I didn't know where it was linked from until I saw it (referenced by "What is Unicode?")

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

Den 2017-04-10 12:19, skrev "Michael Everson" : > I believe the box drawing characters are for drawing boxes Which is exactly what you are doing. > and grids on > computer terminals, which is not the same thing as scoring a line around a set > of 64 graphic images. No, that is why I put in va

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

On Saturday 8 April 2017 I wrote: > I have made an OpenType font that implements Michael's proposed format and > the extension of having variation selectors for the border units that Michael > kindly added during the discussion. > I have published the font and the font is available, free, from

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

2017-04-11 15:04 GMT+02:00 Kent Karlsson via Unicode : > > Den 2017-04-10 12:19, skrev "Michael Everson" : > > > I believe the box drawing characters are for drawing boxes > > Which is exactly what you are doing. > > > and grids on > > computer termi

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Kent Karlsson via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > Den 2017-04-10 12:19, skrev "Michael Everson" : > > > I donšt want to get mixed up in using the box-drawing > > characters. The characters which I have chosen wo

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Philippe Verdy via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > > 2017-04-11 15:04 GMT+02:00 Kent Karlsson via Unicode > : > >> >> Den 2017-04-10 12:19, skrev "Michael Everson" : >> >> > I believe the b

Re: Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for chess notation

2017-04-12 6:12 GMT+02:00 Garth Wallace : > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Philippe Verdy via Unicode < > unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > >> >> >> 2017-04-11 15:04 GMT+02:00 Kent Karlsson via Unicode > >: >> >>> >>> Den 2017-04-

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