Re: Small Latin Letter m with Macron

2003-01-15 Thread Christoph Päper
Kenneth Whistler: > Christoph Päper asked: > >> writing "mm" as only one "m" with a macron above. > > Handwritten forms and arbitrary manuscript abbreviations > should not be encoded as characters. Although I've got no proof for it, I was told that it has also been used in print. > The text shou

Re: Small Latin Letter m with Macron

2003-01-15 Thread Markus Scherer
David J. Perry wrote: The convention of using a horizontal line to mark an abbreviation, often the omission of m or n, goes back to the middle ages (if not earlier) and was often used in early printed books; apparently it has lived on in some handwriting, to judge from your post. ... I can confi

RE: Small Latin Letter m with Macron

2003-01-15 Thread David J. Perry
Christoph, The convention of using a horizontal line to mark an abbreviation, often the omission of m or n, goes back to the middle ages (if not earlier) and was often used in early printed books; apparently it has lived on in some handwriting, to judge from your post. There is no such m-macron c

Re: U+2047 double question mark collation

2003-01-15 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Vadim, > I have a problem with creating collation key for U+2047 (double question > mark). > > Explicit collation keys for this symbol is absent in allkeys.txt. allkeys.txt in the current version of the Unicode Collation Algorithm is based on the Unicode *3.1* repertoire. This can be seen in t

Small Latin Letter m with Macron

2003-01-15 Thread Christoph Päper
Hello, I recently learned in that there has been a tradition (in handwritten text more than in print) of writing "mm" as only one "m" with a macron above. I can't find any such character in Unicode, just U+1E3F and U+1E41. You could of course build something similar

Re: U+2047 double question mark collation

2003-01-15 Thread Ake Persson
Vadim Godunko wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with creating collation key for U+2047 (double question mark). > > Explicit collation keys for this symbol is absent in allkeys.txt. > > In UnicodeData.txt this symbol have compatibility decomposition map. > > 2047: ... : 003F 003F: ... > > Based on t

Re: U+2047 double question mark collation

2003-01-15 Thread Vadim Godunko
Vadim Godunko wrote: Hi, I have a problem with creating collation key for U+2047 (double question mark). Explicit collation keys for this symbol is absent in allkeys.txt. In UnicodeData.txt this symbol have compatibility decomposition map. 2047: ... : 003F 003F: ... Based on this and as defi

U+2047 double question mark collation

2003-01-15 Thread Vadim Godunko
Hi, I have a problem with creating collation key for U+2047 (double question mark). Explicit collation keys for this symbol is absent in allkeys.txt. In UnicodeData.txt this symbol have compatibility decomposition map. 2047: ... : 003F 003F: ... Based on this and as defined in UTR #10 Unicode