Sean Palmer raises some interesting matters.
>I came across the following point in the Unicode FAQ that explains why the
>Unicode standard does not contain any characters for digraphs:-
>
>http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/ligature_digraph.html#3
>
Is a digraph exactly the same as a ligature, o
holomap Verb, transitive. To provide, in relation to a glyph within a font
used in a computer system where such glyph is included in the font so as to
be accessed by a font table substitution route, a direct code point access
route to the glyph.
Word coined by William Overington on 31 July 2002
William Overington wrote,
> Is a digraph exactly the same as a ligature, or is there some difference
> please?
A digraph is a string of letters consisting of two letters. A
ligature is a special presentation form of a string where the
letters connect in some fashion.
Some digraphs have been
On 08/03/2002 03:30:17 AM "William Overington" wrote:
"A new word for the English language"
Correction: a new word for William Overington's ideolect.
We don't need a new word coined for this purpose. Those of us involved in font development and the digital font industry have managed fine withou
On 08/03/2002 03:32:54 AM "William Overington" wrote:
>Actually, I have suggested some code points in relation to this in the
>following document.
William, it seems like every time you contribute to a thread, you are suggesting new code points. There are no new code points needed for digraphs.
William,
fyi, definitions can be found in the Unicode glossary
http://www.unicode.org/glossary
(They are helpful and easy to access although I often find them weak or
wanting.)
digraph http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#digraph
Digraph. A pair of signs or symbols (two graphs), which together
repr
William, Peter,
Unlike Peter, I wouldn't object to a new term with a precise meaning, as
it might be useful, even if it's absence hasn't been a problem to date.
However, I have to agree with Peter the name seems very inappropriate as
the roots do not easily map onto existing concepts, and there
From: "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Simply throwing out terms and definitions, without
> establishing a need and ignoring existing industry terms,
> seems to be a self-inflating and glory-seeking action,
> rather than a desire to make a helpful contribution.
Just so.
> I mention this n
John H. Jenkins wrote:
> There has been considerable uproar in the font development community
> lately about Unicode making unwarranted assumptions about how fonts
> work. I think it would be improper for us to add a character to the
> standard on the basis of "font technology X solves the probl
Sean B. Palmer wrote:
> Since there are 676 possible digraph combinations, I endeavoured to
> come up with a simpler approach to marking the digraphs as a single
> character than simply creating a codepoint for each one. I have two
> ideas so far:-
> ...
> * Come up with a digraph combinging cha
Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> BTW, I would love to see a standard keyboard layout/input method
> specification language. Why no one has started such a thing?
There is such a thing -- ISO 9995. This standard comprises seven parts;
Part 1 defines a row-column notation for every key on the keyboard.
Felipe Boita wrote:
> Não são caracteres combinantes... (?)
> Os caracteres são:
> Ẽ ẽ Ĩ ĩ Ũ ũ Ỹ ỹ
(en)
These *are* combining characters in Unicode. That is, each can be
separated into a base letter and combining diacritic. This is not the
problem.
(pt)
Sim, estes estão caracteres combinante
At 12:49 PM 03-08-02, Doug Ewell wrote:
>This is precisely one of the points I was trying to make in the
>ZWJ-ligation thread a few weeks ago. It would be improper for Unicode
>to do *anything* on the basis of "font technology X solves the problem".
>(Some were suggesting ZWJ was unnecessary for
The PDF version of the Compelling Unicode Example has been updated.
http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/unicodeexample.pdf
This collection of celebrity names and countries from around the world,
written in their native languages using Unicode, is useful for
explaining to businesspeople and senior mana
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Doug Ewell wrote:
> > BTW, I would love to see a standard keyboard layout/input method
> > specification language. Why no one has started such a thing?
>
> There is such a thing -- ISO 9995. [...]
I already knew about that (X11 keyboards use that in their syntax, for
example
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The shift states ("levels") are also identified: Level
> 1 is the normal state, Level 2 is the Shift state, and Level 3 is the
> AltGr or Ctrl+Alt state. (There isn't supposed to be a "Level 4,"
> corresponding to Shift+AltGr, but many systems provide one
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> [...] using the DDK to develop a keyboard layout.
Any URLs to how this can be done?
roozbeh
From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
>
> > [...] using the DDK to develop a keyboard layout.
>
> Any URLs to how this can be done?
Unfortunately, no. Its definitely a non-trivial process, I do not know of
any such sites. The few compa
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> > Any URLs to how this can be done?
>
> Unfortunately, no. Its definitely a non-trivial process, I do not know of
> any such sites.
Even a very non-trivial reference to somewhere in MSDN I can give to a
programmer as a start point?
roozbeh
From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Even a very non-trivial reference to somewhere in MSDN I can
> give to a programmer as a start point?
Tell them to look at kbd.h in the Windows DDK I believe there are also
some samples in there. I do not know of anything in MSDN.
MichKa
Mic
Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> Although the Ctrl and Ctrl+Shfit states are not recommended, they are
> allowed by Windows for people are using the DDK to develop a keyboard
> layout.
>
> And Shift+AltGr is definitely used by many keyboards.
Which is fine if your solution only needs to run on
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm only talking about the row-column nomenclature. AFAIK, there isn't
> even a requirement that the keys be expressed in Unicode code points. I
> would imagine you could say "U+094D + U+0930" for a digraph, for
> instance. As for SGCAPS, ISO 9995 does
The whole DDK is documented in msdn. Do a search for 'keyboard DDK"
there and you will find a lot of information. When I am on my develoer
system next week I will look at the DDK itself on our CDs and I will
let you know offlist what I found. The sample code isn't online.
>From what I can tell i
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