----- Message d'origine ----- De : "Daniel Yacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Greetings, > > To compose coptic numerals under Unicode I've applied the appropriate > lowercase letters in the Greek-Coptic range with the elements from the > Combining Diacritical Marks: U+0304, U+0331 and U+0347. I had no basis > to choose these diacritical symbols upon other than they seemed to get > the job done visually. What are the "approved" symbols for composing > coptic numbers portably? May I ask what is your source for using these diacritics ? George Ifrah (in vol. 1, fig 17.48, uses only macrons (1 for 1..900, 2 for 100..900 000). George Ifrah gives as references A. Mallon, Grammaire copte, Beyrouth, 1956 and W.C. Till, Koptische Grammatik, Leipzig, 1955. I do not see when U+0331 would be used. See also http://www.geocities.com/remenkimi/lesson6.html (bars above). Same here http://mycopticchurch.com/coptic/lesson2.asp. I suppose a good article on this topic could be � Les chiffres coptes � by Messiha Hechmat in Le Monde Copte 24: 25-28, 1994. http://eocf.free.fr/revue_monde_copte.htm > Next question; what does one do for character codes to show values > over a billion? If there is no official sanctioned solution, it > occured to me that the diacritic symbols could simply accumulate > following the lowercase char for interchange and then be presented > graphically. Add additional macrons ? P. Andries - o - O - o - Unicode et ISO 10646 en fran�ais http://hapax.iquebec.com
