Re: Characters for Cakchiquel

2003-03-28 Thread jameskass
. This PDF file, Reference to space in colonial Quiché: http://home.snafu.de/duerr/PDF_Doku/Space.pdf ...has a reference to the cuatrillo and tresillo, uses a Greek lower case ε (U+03B5) for tresillo and a g for cuatrillo. The spelling in these three editions is based on the conventions of

Inherited-script characters

2003-03-28 Thread Doug Ewell
Last December, Mark Davis indicated that a passage similar to the following would (or should) be added to UTR #24, Script Names: Whatever their script property values, characters with general categories of Mn and Me should also inherit their script from their base character. The nominal script

Re: Characters for Cakchiquel

2003-03-28 Thread William Overington
Phil Blair wrote as follows. quote 2.The Jesuits and other missionaries of the Age of Exploration worked and published intensively in then-exotic languages on four continents. There are scholars and groups of scholars now attempting to look systematically at that body of work. I suspect that

Re: Characters for Cakchiquel

2003-03-28 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:36:19PM -, William Overington wrote: For example, as a first suggestion, if U+E400 and upwards were used for that purpose, would that be a suitable choice for the various font makers who might like to consider adding such characters into their existing fonts?

Re: Characters for Cakchiquel

2003-03-28 Thread Kenneth Whistler
But I do find, in the vocabulary and index, words starting with tz are sorting after quatrillo con coma (it goes z, tresillo, quatrillo, quatrillo con coma, tz). So even for this text, a tz ligature is marginal. irrelevant to the

Re: Characters for Cakchiquel

2003-03-28 Thread Stefan Persson
Michael Everson wrote: Shavian has graduated to encoded status, and Tengwar and Cirth will likely also do so. Really? I thought that it would not until Unicode 4.0 is published. Stefan

Re: Inherited-script characters

2003-03-28 Thread Mark Davis
Thanks for reminding me; an note was to be added to that effect. I've added that to a new version, and sent it to the editorial committee for checking. Should be live early next week. Mark () [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM, MS 50-2/B11, 5600 Cottle Rd, SJ CA 95193 (408) 256-3148 fax: (408)

Re: Characters for Cakchiquel

2003-03-28 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: Kenneth Whistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] and any such sequences as quatrillo con coma or tz which need to be handled as units simply get contractions defined for them in the collation element weighting tables. Or other, analogous methods to obtain the same results (for products that do not

Re: Characters for Cakchiquel

2003-03-28 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Stefan asked: Michael Everson wrote: Shavian has graduated to encoded status, and Tengwar and Cirth will likely also do so. Really? I thought that it would not until Unicode 4.0 is published. The Unicode 4.0 release is imminent -- we are anticipating mid-April for finalization of the

Re: Characters for Cakchiquel

2003-03-28 Thread Stefan Persson
Stefan Persson wrote: Michael Everson wrote: Shavian has graduated to encoded status, and Tengwar and Cirth will likely also do so. Really? I thought that it would not until Unicode 4.0 is published. Shavian, that is. Stefan

Re: Characters for Cakchiquel

2003-03-28 Thread Peter_Constable
I have documented some recent usage of cuatrillo and tresillo in linguistics publications at http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiitem_id=RecentCuatrilloUse. (This page has a mechanism for leaving comments; I welcome anyone to provide comments or leave additional information