Re: Geological symbols
This is not possible in unicode plaintext as far as I can tell, since Unicode doesn't allow overstriking arbitrary characters over each other the way more advanced layout systems, e.g. LaTeX do. It is however possible to engineer a font to arrange those characters like that by using aggressive kerning. On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:14 AM Thomas Spehs (MonMap) via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > Hi, I would like to ask if there is any way to create geological “symbols” > with Unicode such as: Q₁¹ˉ², but with the two “1”s over each other, > without a space. Thanks! >
Re: MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK PHI in Calibri is wrong.
You can easily reporduce this by going here: https://www.fonts.com/font/microsoft-corporation/calibri/regular and putting in the following string: ψϕφᵠ On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 5:23 PM James Tauber wrote: > It looks correct in Google Docs so it appears to have been fixed in > whatever version of the font is used there. > > James > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 5:10 PM Oren Watson via Unicode < > unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > >> Would anyone know where to report this? >> In the widely used Calibri typeface included with MS Office, the glyph >> shown for U+1D60 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK PHI, actually depicts a letter >> psi, not a phi. >> >> > > -- > *James Tauber* > Eldarion <https://eldarion.com/> | Scaife Viewer > <https://scaife-viewer.org/> | jktauber.com (Greek Linguistics) > <https://jktauber.com/> | Modelling Music <https://modelling-music.com/> | > Digital Tolkien <https://digitaltolkien.com/> > Subscribe to my email newsletter <https://buttondown.email/jtauber>! >
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK PHI in Calibri is wrong.
Would anyone know where to report this? In the widely used Calibri typeface included with MS Office, the glyph shown for U+1D60 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK PHI, actually depicts a letter psi, not a phi.
Fwd: Emoji as East Asian Width = Wide
EAW is used in fixed-width settings to distinguish characters that should take up one space versus two. I would also prefer that all these be considered wide, since otherwise it causes format problems in these settigns. (unfortunately fixed-width appear to be largley ignored by unicode... 🙁) On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:54 PM, fantasai via Unicode wrote: > 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.jsp?a=1F600&B1=Show > https://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=263A&B1=Show > > ~fantasai >
Invisible characters must be specified to be visible in security-sensitive situations
https://securelist.com/zero-day-vulnerability-in-telegram/83800/ You could disallow these characters in filenames, but when filename handling is charset-agnostic due to the extended-ascii principle this is impractical. I think a better solution is to specify a visible form of these characters to be used (e.g. through otf font variants) when security is of importance.
Fwd: Team Emoji
It's especially bad that they think that it was the Unicode consortium that changed the PISTOL emoji to a water gun. Does no-one at CNN use Android, Samsung or Windows? It's a pistol, specifically a revolver, on all those. On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote: > http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/19/us/emoji-redhead-curly-black-h > air-trnd/index.html > > "Team Emoji (aka the Unicode Consortium) has approved some well-recieved > [sic] updates to the visual lexicon we've all come to love. One of the > most recent updates included black hearts and a unicorn, and they also > got rid of the gun emoji in favor of a much less threatening water gun > version. And shockingly, it has only been two years since Unicode > updated the icons with different skin tones." > > "Team Emoji (aka the Unicode Consortium)." What a legacy. > > -- > Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org > >
