Re: Fwd: Kana and Case (was [totally OT] Unicode terminology)

2000-11-23 Thread Michael Everson
Ar 15:28 -0800 2000-11-22, scríobh Tex Texin: Which brings up the question, when do we encode the comic book (non-spacing) zig-zaggy-balloon-thingie that goes around the text for pow!, biff#@!, bam%$#!, and shazam! ? Asmus and I are looking into this. Of course there is the question, should

RE: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-11-23 Thread Christopher John Fynn
Peter Constable wrote: This is a good example of why an enumeration of "languages" based only on written forms (as found in ISO 639) is insufficient for all user needs. Of course ISO 639 is insufficient for *all* user needs - no standard is. And is there actually a remit for ISO 639 to

Greek Diacritics Again

2000-11-23 Thread Lukas Pietsch
Dear all, there's another issue about Greek diacritics I'd like to ask the opinion of the people who are in the know: the question of (monotonic) Greek "TONOS" and (polytonic) Greek "OXIA" and their equivalence. I know this has had a somewhat troublesome history in Unicode. I seem to remember I

Re: Greek Diacritics Again

2000-11-23 Thread John Hudson
Lukas Pietsch wrote: I seem to remember I read in some Unicode document that the Greek "TONOS" could be realized *either* as an acute *or* as a vertical stroke. I can't locate the reference at the moment. Unfortunately I haven't got the book at hand here and I've been searching the website in

Re: Information about curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-11-23 Thread Richard Cook
Hi everyone, This paper, brought to your attention last June http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/curly-tailed-tdnlcz.pdf http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/TranscriptionTable-WUZongji.jpg has been updated recently. Still working on getting the formal proposal together, and still welcoming comments and/or