Re: Unicode bracketing spec question

2009-04-24 Thread Timothy S. Nelson

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:


Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
I note that S02 says that the unicode classes Ps/Pe are blessed to act 
as opening and closing quotes.  Is there a reason that we can't have Pi/Pf 
blessed too?  I ask because there are quotation marks in the Pi/Pf set that 
are called Substitution and Transposition which I thought might be cool 
quotes for s/// and tr/// :).


You mean

2E00 - 2E2F Supplemental Punctuation

New Testament editorial symbols
[...]
2E02 LEFT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
2E03 RIGHT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
[...]
2E09 LEFT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET
2E0A RIGHT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET


That sounds like them.

But if you really want to use these characters, your source will be hard to 
read without exotic fonts. You have been warned;-)


	My fonts don't show them either.  But we could call it job 
protection ;).


:)


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Re: Unicode bracketing spec question

2009-04-23 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer

Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
I note that S02 says that the unicode classes Ps/Pe are blessed to 
act as opening and closing quotes.  Is there a reason that we can't have 
Pi/Pf blessed too?  I ask because there are quotation marks in the Pi/Pf 
set that are called Substitution and Transposition which I thought 
might be cool quotes for s/// and tr/// :).


You mean

2E00 - 2E2F Supplemental Punctuation

New Testament editorial symbols
[...]
2E02 LEFT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
2E03 RIGHT SUBSTITUTION BRACKET
[...]
2E09 LEFT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET
2E0A RIGHT TRANSPOSITION BRACKET

Cool idea.

But if you really want to use these characters, your source will be hard 
to read without exotic fonts. You have been warned;-)


Helmut Wollmersdorfer