Re: Accessing alternate glyphs from plain text (from Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters)

2010-08-07 Thread William_J_G Overington
Thank you for replying. On Friday 6 August 2010, Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com wrote: What you mean are artistic or stylistic variants. These have certain problems, see here for an explanation: http://www.unicode.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=221#p221 A./     I have read and

Re: Accessing alternate glyphs from plain text (from Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters)

2010-08-07 Thread William_J_G Overington
Thank you for replying. On Friday 6 August 2010, John H. Jenkins jenk...@apple.com wrote: This is another case of a solution in search of a problem. No, the problem is that one cannot at present, as far as I know, access alternate glyphs of an advanced format font from a plain text file.

Re: number padless?

2010-08-07 Thread Otto Stolz
Am 2010-08-07 04:19, schrieb Murray Sargent: In general to type in a character by its Unicode value, type in the hex value and then alt+x. In some MS programs, e. g. the German version of MS Word, it’s rather Alt-C, as Alt-X is endowed with some other meaning. Best wishes, Otto Stolz

Re: Accessing alternate glyphs from plain text (from Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters)

2010-08-07 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wjgo underscore 10009 at btinternet dot com wrote: I cannot understand from that text, or otherwise at the time of writing this reply, why it would not be possible to have an alternate ending glyph for a letter e accessible from plain text using an advanced font

Re: Results of public Review Issues (in particular #121)

2010-08-07 Thread Markus Scherer
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Kenneth Whistler k...@sybase.com wrote: What I now would like to know is what became of the UTC tentative preference for option #2, and where this is documented, Unicode 5.2, Chapter 3: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch03.pdf pp. 94 - 95,

Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and=D=A Cyrillic letters

2010-08-07 Thread verdy_p
Michael Everson On 6 Aug 2010, at 22:20, Karl Pentzlin wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010 um 09:45 schrieb Michael Everson: ME ... In particular the implications ME for Serbian orthography would be most unwelcome. As I have outlined in the revised introduction of my proposal,

Re: Draft Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and=D=A Cyrillic letters

2010-08-07 Thread Doug Ewell
verdy_p verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote: I am not convinced too. Because all what this proposal is supposed to solve is to allow an automted change of orthography so that SOME long s in old doucments using Fraktur style will become round s in some other antermediate style (like