In a message dated 2001-10-23 21:38:30 Pacific Daylight Time,
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> ...
> But, if Unicode incorporate new rule to NFC, it may affect the usage
> of chinese characters in any of those countries who are sharing CJK
> area.
If the goal is to get Unicode/10646 to endorse a
Picking up an old thread that died out last week:
Peter Constable wrote:
> >> >Ethiopic and Canadian Syllabics and Tengwar are featural.
> >>
> >> I have never heard anyone suggest any script other than Hangul to be
> >> featural. Please explain.
> >
> >If you examine the UCAS, you'll see that t
At 05:11 PM 10/23/01 -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
>BTW, the Slovak name of caron is "makcen" (with two dots over the a,
>and caron over the c and n). It literally means softener. The word
>"hacek" used by Unicode is a Czech word (with an acute over the a
>and a caron over the c) and means littl
At 12:11 2001-10-23 -0700, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>The answer to this depends on someone with expertise in Slovak
>typography coming forward.
>
>The editorial committee would be happy to make any clarification
>to the names list and text of the standard, if definitive information
>about Slovak ty
David Starner asked:
> Why are these characters in Unicode as L/l with caron? Why aren't they
> just L/l + '?
Legacy.
ISO/IEC 8859-2 10/03 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON
11/05 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH CARON
Furthermore, since everyone knows that the Czech and Slovak
forms wi
At 16:16 2001-10-23 -0500, David Starner wrote:
>Why are these characters in Unicode as L/l with caron?
Because that's what they are.
>Why aren't they just L/l + '?
Because that is something entirely different.
Adam
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At 11:35 2001-10-23 -0700, John Hudson wrote:
>The apostrophe form (carka, I believe) is the preferred form for both the
>upper and lowercase L. I have seen Slovak texts that use the regular
>caron/hacek form for the uppercase L, but most display the apostrophe form.
>I agree that a note would
As any Slovak should tell you, the preferred form of upper-case L-caron is
the one with the apostrophe...
James
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From: "Geoffrey Waigh"
Why are these characters in Unicode as L/l with caron? Why aren't they
just L/l + '?
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Darren Morby wrote:
> In The Unicode Standard Version 3.0, the Latin small letters d l and t with
> caron (U+010F, U+013E, U+0165) are actually shown with a trailing apostrophe
> (d', l', t'). On each character there is the following note:
>
> the form using apostrophe is p
The answer to this depends on someone with expertise in Slovak
typography coming forward.
The editorial committee would be happy to make any clarification
to the names list and text of the standard, if definitive information
about Slovak typography for the capital L-caron is forthcoming.
--Ken
At 06:49 10/23/2001, Darren Morby wrote:
>Which is the preferred form, L with an actual caron or L with an apostrophe?
>And should there not be a note on capital L like there is on small l? (The
>note on small l does not say that it applies to capital L also.)
The apostrophe form (carka, I beli
In The Unicode Standard Version 3.0, the Latin small letters d l and t with
caron (U+010F, U+013E, U+0165) are actually shown with a trailing apostrophe
(d', l', t'). On each character there is the following note:
the form using apostrophe is preferred in typesetting
However, the Latin capital
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