Re: Roman (and other) numismatic marks

2004-06-09 Thread Doug Ewell
Mark E. Shoulson mark at kli dot org wrote: Michael Everson wrote: Actually Michael Everson was quoting Doug Ewell, but whatever: Krause used Mo because there was no other plain-text way to show M-with-o-above. Hint hint. What's wrong with 004D 030A ? That's what it looks like to me. Or

Re: Roman (and other) numismatic marks

2004-06-09 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2004.06.09, 08:40, Doug Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More importantly, mint marks, like currency signs, are indivisible entities. They aren't just ordinary letters with a combining mark, the way Ñ is just an N with a tilde over it. «Ñ is just an N with a tilde over it» from a

Re: Roman (and other) numismatic marks

2004-06-09 Thread Michael Everson
At 00:40 -0700 2004-06-09, Doug Ewell wrote: More importantly, mint marks, like currency signs, are indivisible entities. They aren't just ordinary letters with a combining mark, the way Ñ is just an N with a tilde over it. Take a look at the Web page James cited, with its screen shot of a

Response to a Proposal to Encode Phoenician in Unicode

2004-06-09 Thread Dean Snyder
I have submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and Working Group 2 of the ISO 10646 my response not in support of Michael Everson's proposal to encode Phoenician in Unicode. You can download the Acrobat PDF file from: http://www.jhu.edu/ice/proposals/PhoenicianSnyder.pdf Feel free to

Re: Roman (and other) numismatic marks

2004-06-09 Thread Doug Ewell
Michael Everson everson at evertype dot com wrote: Take a look at the Web page James cited, with its screen shot of a numismatic database. You will see many mint mark images that cannot be created from any combination of existing Unicode characters. But if some of them can? Then I suppose

Re: Roman (and other) numismatic marks

2004-06-09 Thread Michael Everson
At 08:49 -0700 2004-06-09, Doug Ewell wrote: Then I suppose one could use combining sequences. But I remember from the discussion of the austral and guarani signs that precomposed characters were preferred over combining sequences for currency signs. I don't see why that wouldn't be the case for

Re: [hebrew] Response to a Proposal to Encode Phoenician in Unicode

2004-06-09 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
Dean Snyder wrote: I have submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and Working Group 2 of the ISO 10646 my response not in support of Michael Everson's proposal to encode Phoenician in Unicode. You can download the Acrobat PDF file from: http://www.jhu.edu/ice/proposals/PhoenicianSnyder.pdf

Re: Sinhala encoding issues

2004-06-09 Thread jcowan
Paul Nelson (TYPOGRAPHY) scripsit: Currently, our implementation is that a character displayed on its own is displayed on a dotted circle. From my recollection, this is what is recommended in TUS. This currently works as a stand-alone mark with a visual representation of the dotted circle in

RE: Response to a Proposal to Encode Phoenician in Unicode

2004-06-09 Thread Mike Ayers
Title: RE: Response to a Proposal to Encode Phoenician in Unicode From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dean Snyder Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:55 AM Feel free to comment. Two words: Straw men. Two more words: Crosspost bad. /|/|ike

RE: [hebrew] Re: Response to a Proposal to Encode Phoenician in Unicode

2004-06-09 Thread Peter Constable
[choosing not to cross-post to all three lists] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark E. Shoulson The Tanaaim pretty clearly did not view this as a matter of font-variants. In fairness, Unicode does not encode legal judgments any more than it does the phonology

Re: Sinhala encoding issues

2004-06-09 Thread jcowan
Paul Nelson (TYPOGRAPHY) scripsit: My assumption is the only SINHALA or SINHALA is sent to the Sinhala engine. Okay. How does Unicode propose making sure that, in the plain text case, that the space before the Sinhala combining mark is glued to the combining mark and not the previous

Re: Response to a Proposal to Encode Phoenician in Unicode

2004-06-09 Thread Rick McGowan
Dean, et al, Can we stop with the cross posting here? This is just my opinion, but conversations cross-posted to several lists end up with some people not being able to read the responses posted elsewhere (for lists they aren't on), or being frustrated to post undeliverable replies (for

Bantu click letters

2004-06-09 Thread Michael Everson
Practice your tongue-twisting. Proposal to add Bantu phonetic click characters to the UCS http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n2790-clicks.pdf :-P -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

Re: Response to a Proposal to Encode Phoenician in Unicode

2004-06-09 Thread Dean Snyder
Rick McGowan wrote at 7:29 PM on Wednesday, June 9, 2004: Can we stop with the cross posting here? This is just my opinion, but conversations cross-posted to several lists end up with some people not being able to read the responses posted elsewhere (for lists they aren't on), or being

Re: [hebrew] Response to a Proposal to Encode Phoenician in Unicode

2004-06-09 Thread Dean Snyder
Mark E. Shoulson wrote at 12:50 PM on Wednesday, June 9, 2004: One thing that only recently occurred to me, regarding the quote from Mishna Yadayim that distinguishes Paleo-Hebrew script from Square Hebrew: While it is true that any font outside of the accepted ones will render a Torah scroll

Re: Bantu click letters

2004-06-09 Thread Patrick Andries
Michael Everson a écrit : Practice your tongue-twisting. Proposal to add Bantu phonetic click characters to the UCS http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n2790-clicks.pdf :-P Are these letters used in any other book than Doke's book on Kalahari Bushmen ? P. A.

Re: Bantu click letters

2004-06-09 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
On the last page, the word spelled approximately n is translated as to roast when in fact that is approximately nwi (with a different n). the n word means bow. Really, Michael, I thought you knew your hu better than that... ~mark Michael Everson wrote: Practice your tongue-twisting. Proposal

RE: Bantu click letters

2004-06-09 Thread Hohberger, Clive
Michael, This is a brilliant write-up! Has some one done the same for Xhosa and !Kung? Cheers, Clive Clive P Hohberger, PhD Corporate VP, Technology Development Director of Patent Affairs Zebra Technologies Corp. Office: +1 847 793 2740 Cellular: +1 847

RE: Bantu click letters

2004-06-09 Thread Ernest Cline
[Original Message] From: Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Practice your tongue-twisting. Proposal to add Bantu phonetic click characters to the UCS http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n2790-clicks.pdf Why wouldn't U+1D4AC MATHEMATICAL SCRIPT CAPITAL Q work for the script