What next? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3775799.stm
Why, LETTER COLLIE, COMBINING PANT, of course:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3794079.stm
D. Starner wrote:
John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We must be talking past one another somehow, but I don't understand how.
To represent the text as originally written, I need a digital representation
for each of the characters in it. Since all I want to do is reprint
the book -- I don't
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 03:04:17 +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
How many people use medieval CJK race-horse-name characters?
Actually, the famous Song dynasty female poet Li Qingzhao (1084-c.1151) invented
a board game (da3 ma3 tu2 in Chinese) which involved racing around a course in
which each
-- Original message from Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin : --
On 2004.06.10, 17:11, I wrote:
U+0251 U+0361 U+0302 U+028A as given by BabelMap+Code2000 (see
attached) is not productively different from U+0251
U+0302 U+0361 U+028A (see attached)...
Now attached.
On 11/06/2004 14:39:48 James Kass wrote:
-- Original message from Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin :
--
On 2004.06.10, 17:11, I wrote:
U+0251 U+0361 U+0302 U+028A as given by BabelMap+Code2000 (see
attached) is not productively different from U+0251
U+0302 U+0361 U+028A
On 2004.06.11, 06:25, Doug Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I concede that Androcles and the Lion was the only book published
in Shavian
Check http://katalogo.uea.org/index.php?inf=5522 for one more. At
least its last chapter is fully in shavian script; shavian letters are
introduced gradually
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Behalf Of James Kass
U+0251 U+0361 U+0302 U+028A as given by
BabelMap+Code2000 (see
attached) is not productively different from U+0251
U+0302 U+0361 U+028A (see attached)...
Following the inside-out rule, the
Bob Hallissy wrote,
Even with OpenType experimental support here, my display looks like
the GIF you sent. I'll try fixing this,
Um, good luck. I am not sure it is possible to correctly position
double-diacritics with OpenType logic. Specifically, the vertical position
of the
On Jun 11, 2004, at 6:44 AM, Andrew C. West wrote:
Depite the oft-mentioned cutesy Hong Kong race horse names,
idiosyncratic
invented Han ideographs are a negligible component of the encoded CJK
repertoire. In my opinion there are thousands, possibly tens of
thousands, of
ideographs that should
The inside-out rule is explained and illustrated on page 125 (TUS 4.0).
An a followed by combining umlaut followed by combining macron
is not the same as a plus combining macron plus combining umlaut.
Hmmm. Further on the inside-out rule. Note the following pairs, which
are supposed
(This message is now late and may be untimely. Apologies if so.)
It is odd to me that most of the examples shown of plain text use of the
domino symbols and playing card symbols are from contexts which are demonstrably
through-and-through *rich text*---they are HTML web pages!
Here is a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even with OpenType experimental support here, my display looks like
the GIF you sent. I'll try fixing this,
Um, good luck. I am not sure it is possible to correctly position
double-diacritics with OpenType logic. Specifically, the vertical position
of the
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of James Kass
Not sure what you are saying here or what you mean by the inside-out
rule.
The two sequences are canonically equivalent and should look
identical.
The inside-out rule is explained and illustrated on page 125 (TUS
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of James Kass
Hmmm. Further on the inside-out rule. Note the following pairs, which
are supposed to be in UTF-8:
aÌÌ^ aÌ^Ì
uÌÌ^ uÌ^Ì
[Why isn't UTF-8 coming through as such?]
The first a with combiners isn't displaying
Peter Constable wrote,
Don't forget canonical equivalence (I forgot about this as well): the
double-width diacritics have a combining class of 234 rather than 230.
This means that 0251 0361 0302 028A is canonically equivalent to 0251
0302 0361 028A. Therefore, the first (for better or
Peter Constable wrote,
Don't forget canonical equivalence (I forgot about this as well): the
double-width diacritics have a combining class of 234 rather than 230.
This means that 0251 0361 0302 028A is canonically equivalent to 0251
0302 0361 028A. Therefore, the first (for better or
On 11/06/2004 10:51, James Kass wrote:
...
Doesn't this mean that it isn't possible to stack a combining circumflex
above a combining spanning inverted breve? Does this mean we'd need
double-wide clones of all the combining marks in order to support such
combos?
Sounds like the same problem
On Jun 11, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
It would have been nice if a better mechanism for expressing
Han glyphic (and other types of) variants had been feasible
and in place before CJK Extension B went in, but that is
water under the bridge now. One can only hope that some
restraint
On Jun 11, 2004, at 6:44 AM, Andrew C. West wrote:
Depite the oft-mentioned cutesy Hong Kong race horse names,
idiosyncratic
invented Han ideographs are a negligible component of the encoded CJK
repertoire. In my opinion there are thousands, possibly tens of
thousands, of
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John Jenkins wrote:
And the proper solution for the race horse problem is for the People's
Hong Kong Jockey Club to refuse to let a horse race unless its name is
in Unicode. :-)
Wouldn't that be like putting the cart before the horse?
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