Roman numerals in non-latin text

2003-06-12 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
I'm referencing to a book entitled: Памятники Музея Ізящныхъ Іскусствъ імені ІмператораАлександра III въ Москве. I see that the the roman ordinal "third" can be encoded in a couple of different ways: - U+0049 U+0049 U+0049 - U+0406 U+0406 U+0406 (considering that this old russian orthograp

Re: Caron / Hacek?

2003-06-12 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2003.03.05, 07:58, Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In the Slovak orthography, the lowercase d, l and t are normally written >> with the 'apostrophe' form of the accent. > > but only the printed version, not in handwriting <...> > In fact, the apostrophe form is used because ther

Re: Caron / Hacek?

2003-06-12 Thread Pim Blokland
António Martins-Tuválkin schreef: [quoting Radovan Garabik] >> In fact, the apostrophe form is used because there is a lack of >> convenient space to put carons over "tall" letters d,t,l, whereas >> there is no problem with n,e,r. Funny you should bring this subject back up. I never stopped wonde

Re: Caron / Hacek?

2003-06-12 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:20:42PM +0100, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote: > On 2003.03.05, 07:58, Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> In the Slovak orthography, the lowercase d, l and t are normally written > >> with the 'apostrophe' form of the accent. > > > > but only the pri

Re: Roman numerals in non-latin text

2003-06-12 Thread Pim Blokland
António Martins-Tuválkin schreef: > I'm referencing to a book entitled: > Памятники (etc, which translates into Памятники Музея Ізящныхъ Іскусствъ імені ІмператораАлександра III въ Москве) > I see that the the roman ordinal "third" can be encoded in a couple of different ways: > > - U+0049 U+00

Re: Caron / Hacek?

2003-06-12 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Pim Blokland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > António Martins-Tuválkin schreef: > > [quoting Radovan Garabik] > >> In fact, the apostrophe form is used because there is a lack of > >> convenient space to put carons over "tall" letters d,t,l, whereas > >> there is no problem with n,e,r. > > Funny you

Re: Caron / Hacek?

2003-06-12 Thread Jim Allan
Pim Blokland posted: However, having said all this, I'm not sure it's a Unicode issue. What is to prevent font makers from creating fonts with glyphs that look like ˇ for every caron? The Unicode Consortium doesn't force the appearance of glyphs, only the font makers do. Chapter 7 of the Unicode

Re: Roman numerals in non-latin text

2003-06-12 Thread Philippe Verdy
Pim Blokland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. Encoded like that it may *look* like a roman three, but two of > those are definitely not correct. Only U+2162 or its compatibility > decomposition, U+0049 U+0049 U+0049 should be used. The other two > are bad coding, just as using greek Iotas or combin