Doug Ewell wrote:
Michael Everson wrote:
But didn't someone already point out that with OpenType tables, it
would be relatively easy to map "alternate" Phoenician glyphs to the
existing Hebrew code points?
You're not helping, Doug.
Apparently my post was badly misunderstood.
Michael
Michael Everson wrote:
>> But didn't someone already point out that with OpenType tables, it
>> would be relatively easy to map "alternate" Phoenician glyphs to the
>> existing Hebrew code points?
>
> You're not helping, Doug.
Apparently my post was badly misunderstood.
Michael said he believes
Michael Everson wrote,
> At 22:45 + 2004-11-07, Peter Kirk wrote:
>
> >You have indeed stated an intention to encode "significant nodes".
>
> Yes. Based on the scholarly taxonomy of writing systems.
>
> >But the official documentation, the Unicode
> >Standard, does not say anything li
Michael Everson wrote:
At 17:10 -0800 2004-11-07, Doug Ewell wrote:
But didn't someone already point out that with OpenType tables, it would
be relatively easy to map "alternate" Phoenician glyphs to the existing
Hebrew code points?
You're not helping, Doug.
So what? I can map Latin glyphs to Cyril
At 22:45 + 2004-11-07, Peter Kirk wrote:
You have indeed stated an intention to encode "significant nodes".
Yes. Based on the scholarly taxonomy of writing systems.
But the official documentation, the Unicode
Standard, does not say anything like this.
Alarm! Alarm! I detect a desire on your pa
At 17:10 -0800 2004-11-07, Doug Ewell wrote:
But didn't someone already point out that with OpenType tables, it would
be relatively easy to map "alternate" Phoenician glyphs to the existing
Hebrew code points?
You're not helping, Doug.
So what? I can map Latin glyphs to Cyrillic code points if I wa
Asmus Freytag wrote:
At 08:29 PM 11/6/2004, Doug Ewell wrote:
You've received nine public responses: one from a genuine font designer,
two (or more, depending on interpretation) from people who have designed
fonts at some time but don't identify themselves as "font designers,"
and the remainder fro
At 17:10 -0800 2004-11-07, Doug Ewell wrote:
But didn't someone already point out that with OpenType tables, it would
be relatively easy to map "alternate" Phoenician glyphs to the existing
Hebrew code points?
That would presume that Phoenician and Hebrew are the same script,
Doug, which they are
Michael Everson wrote:
> Alas, it's about me, Doug. The reason, as far as I can see, is that
> Ms Keown has taken it into her head that I (for instance) who am not
> a Semiticist, am nothing more than a font designer, and that my
> ability to design fonts is the only reason I believe that the
> P
It is in Chapter 7 European Alphabetic Scripts
7.1 latin
The first page of this section.
In the hardcopy version of 4.0 this is page 166
Somewhere on the website is the whole book online, downloadable as pdf files.
Chris
- Original Message -
From: "Theodore H. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
I like to know how are SMS messages encoded.
What encoded is used ? UCS-2 ? UTF-8 ?
Possible scenarios: (1) simple ASCII text; (2) characters from ASCII
combined with some from ISO-8859-x; (3) all Asian text; (...)
The three encodings that I know have been used for SMS text, at least
with Palm OS,
At 08:29 PM 11/6/2004, Doug Ewell wrote:
You've received nine public responses: one from a genuine font designer,
two (or more, depending on interpretation) from people who have designed
fonts at some time but don't identify themselves as "font designers,"
and the remainder from people who definite
I like to know how are SMS messages encoded.
What encoded is used ? UCS-2 ? UTF-8 ?
Possible scenarios: (1) simple ASCII text; (2) characters from ASCII
combined with some from ISO-8859-x; (3) all Asian text; (...)
I only found a page here
http://www.csoft.co.uk/sms/character_sets/gsm.htm
but it d
At 20:29 -0800 2004-11-06, Doug Ewell wrote:
E. Keown wrote:
Supposedly this list has >600 people.
> Just of curiosity, how many of you are NOT font designers?
Maybe I'm being a bit cynical (the election wasn't that long ago, after
all), but I have to wonder what the motivation is for asking thi
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