OT: John Cowan announces the "Unix Power Classic"

2004-06-03 Thread John Cowan
My apologies for this cross-post, but I just can't tell which of you will be interested in my latest effort: the Unix Power Classic, an evolving hacker-oriented version of the Tao Te Ching. See http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/upc . Please don't reply on-list, but directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks.

Re: Encoding of script variants, was: Semitic scripts and script variants

2004-06-03 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 10:30 AM 6/3/2004, Peter Kirk wrote: I think it's up to you to develop a workable alternative to parallel coding, if you think that would be preferable. Well, I have suggested several alternatives, only to have them all shouted down by Michael and rejected by Ken. ... So perhaps someone else

Re: Game pieces proposal

2004-06-03 Thread Jörg Knappen
Ernest Cline schrieb: > > > What about U+272A PLUS SIGN ABOVE EQUALS SIGN? > > should read 2A72 > > > > Hey, there it is! And BLACK STANDS SLIGHTLY BETTER is on 2A71. > > So is this usage significant enough to warrant adding glosses in the > code charts on U+2A71 and U+2A72 o

Encoding of script variants, was: Semitic scripts and script variants

2004-06-03 Thread Peter Kirk
On 03/06/2004 09:57, Asmus Freytag wrote: At 05:14 AM 6/3/2004, Peter Kirk wrote: My first thought is that a variant script selector might be defined, which applies until cancelled or overridden, on the analogy of RLO...PDF. But I guess others will object to this. Does anyone have any other sugg

Re: Semitic scripts and script variants, was: Updated Phoenician proposal: confidential?

2004-06-03 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 05:14 AM 6/3/2004, Peter Kirk wrote: My first thought is that a variant script selector might be defined, which applies until cancelled or overridden, on the analogy of RLO...PDF. But I guess others will object to this. Does anyone have any other suggestions for how Unicode can support script

Pointers to another discussion of the Phoenician proposal

2004-06-03 Thread Ted Hopp
In addition to the discussion on ibiblio that was mentioned earlier, there was also a substantive interchange on the Ancient Near East discussion list run out of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. The contributions all seem to be from people who have a practical, everyday need to

Semitic scripts and script variants, was: Updated Phoenician proposal: confidential?

2004-06-03 Thread Peter Kirk
On 02/06/2004 14:28, Rick McGowan wrote: Peter Kirk wrote.. > > You, Rick, also replied on 22 December 2003 to the same posting > > of mine, so you can't claim to be ignorant of this discussion. > > You wrote: > >You can't just "call for a review" and expect anything to happen. >Please dcument you

Re: Updated Phoenician proposal: confidential?

2004-06-03 Thread James Kass
Peter Kirk wrote, > Well, I must say I found this hard to understand. I suppose he didn't > want to put his proposal at risk by describing how the user community > was, at least in part, opposed to the proposal. It is the proposer's > failure to give any weight to the opposition to his proposa