Re: Did the waw in [Dan. v. 8] change?

2004-05-30 Thread Chris Jacobs
- Original Message - From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 3:51 AM Subject: Re: Did the waw in [Dan. v. 8] change? > Chris Jacobs wrote: > > >[Dan. v. 8] "They were not able t

Re: Definitio "Sn ofcript" etc.

2004-05-30 Thread John Hudson
Christopher Fynn wrote: John "Script" is already defined in ISO 10646 as: ... I was not proposing a new formal definition, I was identifying a *functional* aspect of a de facto definition as being distinction in plain text. This should go without saying -- characters for plain text is what Uni

RE: Definitio "Sn ofcript" etc. (was: Re: Phoenician & Kharos.t.hi- proposals)

2004-05-30 Thread Peter Constable
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Christopher Fynn > D. Starner wrote: > >So are we going to encode the Japanese, Fraktur and Farsi scripts? > >Users of those scripts have been told they can just use a different > >font. > > > No - and no one is seriously proposi

Re: Definition of Script etc.

2004-05-30 Thread Christopher Fynn
D. Starner wrote: Iâve heard Japanese so proposed repeatedly. Has there ever been a formal proposal to WG2 / UTC? (of course we know what the result would be since CJK unification is a fundamental part of the standard) Iâve also heard, and agree with, the arguments that IPA is a script in t

Re: Definition of Script etc.

2004-05-30 Thread D. Starner
Christopher Fynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > D. Starner wrote: > > >So are we going to encode the Japanese, Fraktur and Farsi scripts? > >Users of those scripts have been told they can just use a different > >font. > > > > > No - and no one is seriously proposing that these are scripts in the

Re: Definitio "Sn ofcript" etc. (was: Re: Phoenician & Kharos.t.hi- proposals)

2004-05-30 Thread Christopher Fynn
D. Starner wrote: Christopher Fynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Telling people who propose a script that they can "just use a different font " could very easily contradict this stated goal. So are we going to encode the Japanese, Fraktur and Farsi scripts? Users of those scripts have bee

Re: Definitio "Sn ofcript" etc. (was: Re: Phoenician & Kharoṣṭhī proposals)

2004-05-30 Thread D. Starner
Christopher Fynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Telling people who propose a script that they can "just use a > different font " could very easily contradict this stated goal. So are we going to encode the Japanese, Fraktur and Farsi scripts? Users of those scripts have been told they can just

Definition of Script etc.

2004-05-30 Thread Christopher Fynn
Sorry about the garbled Subject line in my previous post. I don't know how that happened as the original in my Sent folder looks OK Christopher Fynn wrote: John Hudson wrote: I have been thinking today that part of the reason for the debate is that Unicode has a singular concept of 'script'

Definitio "Sn ofcript" etc. (was: Re: Phoenician & Kharoṣṭhī proposals)

2004-05-30 Thread Christopher Fynn
John Hudson wrote: I have been thinking today that part of the reason for the debate is that Unicode has a singular concept of 'script', a bucket into which variously shaped concepts of writing systems must be put or rejected. I don't think there is anything conceptually wrong with the idea

Re: Interesting Timing

2004-05-30 Thread James Kass
Dean Snyder wrote, > I just saw the following posting on the Ancient Near Eastern email list. > > Interesting in light of the Phoenician and Archaic Greek discussions here, no? > > Notice the striking non-use of the term "Phoenician" in the conference > title, using "West Semitic" instead. Si

Re: Interesting Timing

2004-05-30 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
Ernest Cline wrote: [Original Message] From: Dean Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Unicode List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 5/30/2004 1:29:06 AM Subject: Interesting Timing I just saw the following posting on the Ancient Near Eastern email list. Interesting in light of the Phoenician and Archaic Gree

RE: Interesting Timing

2004-05-30 Thread Ernest Cline
> [Original Message] > From: Dean Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Unicode List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 5/30/2004 1:29:06 AM > Subject: Interesting Timing > > I just saw the following posting on the Ancient Near Eastern email list. > > Interesting in light of the Phoenician and Archaic Greek

Re: Updated Phoenician proposal: confidential?

2004-05-30 Thread James Kass
Peter Kirk wrote, > I will take the opportunity of reminding Mike Ksar that the original > proposal N2746, http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2746.pdf, > contained factual errors, in particular the statement in C 2a that no > contact has been made with members of the user community. In fac