At 19:50 -0800 2001-03-13, Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote:
Now that you mention them, someone will make a fuss over their absence.
8-)
They have already been noticed.
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First of all, sorry for having started this demoniac thread. It was against
my will -- I was probably possessed. :-)
As someone correctly inferred, what I meant was the Italian "pentagramma":
the five horizontal lines used in musical notation or, by extension,
"musical notation".
BTW,
I wrote:
F666;ANTICHRISTIAN ALTERNATIVE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER
T;Lu;0;L;font 0054N0074;
Ooops! it lowercase t, not uppercase. As I must correct myself, I take the
occasion to make a better decomposition:
F666;ANTICHRISTIAN ALTERNATIVE LATIN SMALL LETTER T;Ll;0;L;compat
Title:
Lateef Sagar Shaikh wrote:
I am making a font for Kurdish in Arabic script, and don't
know how to handle some Kurdish characters. I am sending an image for detail.Based on the glyphs you
show, your mappings seem correct to me.Thevowels that you did not specify look like
See
http://www.harper.cc.il.us/mhealy/g101ilec/namer/nac/nacnine/na9intro/nacnin
fr.htm
It dates back to 1981, the thesis of an American named Joel Garreau. It is
the theory of the 9 nations that form North America.
Alain LaBont
Qubec
A lot of other religions managed to make it into Miscellaneous Symbols
(although if Solomon's Seal/Mogen David is there, I'm not seeing it).
No it is there :
From ITC Zapf dingbats series 100
Stars asteriks and snowflakes
2721 STAR OF DAVID
Bertrand
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Curtis Clark wrote:
At 07:50 PM 3/13/01, Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote:
And no, the Unicode Standard hasn't encoded any pentagrams yet -- or
hexagrams or baphomets, for that matter.
Now that you mention them, someone will make a fuss over their absence.
8-)
A lot of
Doug,
U+235F
(APL is a rather demonic language, isn't it?)
In more ways than one. His pitch fork U+2366 is there too.
You wonder why IBM had so much trouble selling its first PCs. The 5101 cost
more than $30K, came with one tape drive, plus 8K of memory and did not
support floppies. The
On Tuesday, March 13, 2001, at 05:39 PM, Christopher John Fynn wrote:
Some of the characters in Extension B are required for JIS X 0213
support, which is going to be a sine qua non in Japan within a few
years. There was a push a little while ago to put these characters
on the BMP for
"Carl W. Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Say you wanted to do a table lookup. APL has no string operations so you
are comparing a one dimensional character array against a two dimensional
character array. You use an outer product multiply function substituting
the multiply for a compare. This
Sigh.
http://www.chronicle.com/free/v47/i26/26a01401.htm
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27 Pirc an Fhithlinn; Baile an
There has been a lot of debate about this on SeeLangs - the Slavonic and
East European Languages list. In the spirit of fair debate I'm forwarding
the long response to this Chronicle article (sorry about the length - I hope
no one objects), sent by the man at the centre of the furore, David
Can anyone comment on how widely used the TRON Character Code is today?
After doing some surfing on the topic, it appears to be in at least some
use (primarily in Japan?) I hadn't thought there were any viable
alternatives to Unicode out there, and was surprised to see TRON looking
as alive as
From: "Suzanne M. Topping" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can anyone comment on how widely used the TRON Character Code is today?
One of the variation of TRON, ITRON, is quite popular in embedded
systems arena, but probably what you are interested in is BTRON, a
desktop variatoin of TRON, which is promoted
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Dan Kolis wrote:
Thats what makes to s great and sooo weird,
And all these time I thought that Perl is greatest and the most weird.
With all the details you opened our eyes into, Perl is only a childish
toy in the obscurity world. ;)
--roozbeh
In the dewey decimal system numbers start at 1 for highest levels of
abstraction and go down to 999 for details. So theology is up in the 1,2,3
and steam engine operation around 600. Computer science is in the single
digits, and programming is around 621 or so.
APL and LISP are the deviants in
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: "Suzanne M. Topping" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After doing some surfing on the topic, it appears to be in at least some
use (primarily in Japan?) I hadn't thought there were any viable
alternatives to Unicode out there, and was surprised to see
On Wednesday, March 14, 2001, at 09:01 AM, John Jenkins wrote:
In any event, it was a politically impossible decision to make. It was
extremely difficult to get agreement to add Vertical Extension A to the
BMP; in the end, that agreement was secured only by promising that no
future
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