Re: What constitutes "character"?

2001-11-09 Thread Dhrubajyoti Banerjee
Hi, I joined in a bit late on this. On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 Gaspar Sinai wrote : >I think that the Indian sctipts deserve better character >assignement - The character assignment of Indian scripts is already quite well done. Since it follows the ISCII88 standard, though, some ambiguities may rem

Unicode in the balance (was Re: What constitutes "character"?)

2001-11-09 Thread Youtie Effaight
Howdy there... I've been following this thread about the deficiencies of Unicode, and its pretty much a hoot and a holler. If anyone can devise a better solution, please feel free to stage a coup d'etat and overthrow the hegemony of Unicode. I'm sure it could be done better: in an ideal world

RE: What constitutes "character"?

2001-11-09 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Dhrubajyoti Banerjee wrote: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 Gaspar Sinai wrote : > >I think that the Indian sctipts deserve better character > >assignement - [...] > However the idea you present, of pushing half characters, > does not sound correct. Actually, Gaspar's idea of encoding half letters (and fo

Question on script-name assignment

2001-11-09 Thread Tom Emerson
One gotcha, that I run into every six months or so, is forgetting that the punctuation characters in the Basic Latin block are classified as Latin script. This trips me up because most of my text processing work involves CJK, so I'll write something to filter latin characters with (in Rosette nota