Re: Akkha script (used by Eastern Magar language) in ISO 15924?

2019-07-23 Thread Anshuman Pandey via Unicode
> On Jul 23, 2019, at 12:26 AM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:42:37 -0700 > Anshuman Pandey via Unicode wrote: > >> As I pointed out in L2/11-144, the “Magar Akkha” script is an >> appropriation of Brahmi, renamed t

Re: Akkha script (used by Eastern Magar language) in ISO 15924?

2019-07-22 Thread Anshuman Pandey via Unicode
As I pointed out in L2/11-144, the “Magar Akkha” script is an appropriation of Brahmi, renamed to link it to the primordialist daydreams of an ethno-linguistic community in Nepal. I have never seen actual usage of the script by Magars. If things have changed since 2011, I would very much

Fwd: L2/18-181

2018-05-16 Thread Anshuman Pandey via Unicode
> On May 16, 2018, at 3:46 PM, 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: ‘Fascinating’ is a not a term I’d use for

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

2018-02-20 Thread Anshuman Pandey via Unicode
> On Feb 20, 2018, at 9:49 PM, James Kass via Unicode > wrote: > > Michael Everson wrote: > >> Orthographic harmonization between these languages can ONLY help any >> speaker of one to access information in any of the others. That expands >> people’s worlds. That would

End of discussion, please — Re: Why so much emoji nonsense?

2018-02-15 Thread Anshuman Pandey via Unicode
> On Feb 15, 2018, at 10:58 PM, Pierpaolo Bernardi via Unicode > wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 4:26 AM, James Kass via Unicode > wrote: > >> The best time to argue against the addition of emoji to Unicode would be >> 2007 or 2008, but you'd be

Re: Emoji for major planets at least?

2018-01-18 Thread Anshuman Pandey via Unicode
Proposals for planet emoji were submitted in April 2017: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17100-planet-emoji-seq.pdf http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17100r-planet-emoji-seq.pdf I’m not sure what the result was. Anshu > On Jan 18, 2018, at 12:46 PM, Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode >

The need for a basic register of emoji submissions

2017-08-31 Thread Anshuman Pandey via Unicode
There is a need for a basic register of proposals that have been submitted to the Emoji Subcommittee. Currently, emoji proposals are posted to the UTC register after they have been reviewed by the ESC as being actionable by the UTC. For proposals that make the cut, some time can pass between the

Re: Comparing Raw Values of the Age Property

2017-05-22 Thread Anshuman Pandey via Unicode
I performed several operations on DerivedAge.txt a few months ago. One basic example here: https://pandey.github.io/posts/unicode-growth-UCD-python.html If you provide some more insight into your objective, I might be able to help. I would recommend against relying on the order of the data,

Re: Counting Devanagari Aksharas

2017-04-20 Thread Anshuman Pandey via Unicode
> On Apr 20, 2017, at 8:19 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:14:00 -0700 > Manish Goregaokar via Unicode wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode >> wrote: