Re: Sanskrit nasalized L

2011-08-16 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On 08/16/2011 07:29 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote: The issues is on the relative ordering of candrabindu and virama. For a C1-conjoining form (i.e. C2 relatively unmodified),la virama candrabindu la is easier to handle. For a C2-conjoining form,la candrabindu virama la is easier to work

Re: Sanskrit nasalized L

2011-08-16 Thread Andrew West
On 16 August 2011 02:59, Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: All I've got to go on is the penultimate sentence in TUS 6.0 Section 10.2 - 'Rarely, stacks are seen that contain more than one such consonant-vowel combination in a vertical arrangement'.

Re: Sanskrit nasalized L

2011-08-16 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 8/16/2011 1:57 AM, Andrew West wrote: On 16 August 2011 02:59, Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: All I've got to go on is the penultimate sentence in TUS 6.0 Section 10.2 - 'Rarely, stacks are seen that contain more than one such consonant-vowel combination in a

Encoding of Emoji in SMS, and UCS-2 vs UTF-16

2011-08-16 Thread Craig McQueen
The SMS standard specifies UCS-2 encoding: http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/23038.htm I see many “emoji” have been defined in Unicode 6. But many emoji are outside the BMP, so can’t be encoded in UCS-2. Does anyone know, is the intention that these emoji should be encoded in SMS using

Re: Anything from the Symbol font to add along with W*dings?

2011-08-16 Thread Philippe Verdy
2011/8/13 Andreas Prilop prilop4...@trashmail.net wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Leo Broukhis wrote: http://www.numericana.com/about.htm The author Gerard P. Michon is clueless. Even Netscape 4 was able to display all symbols from  http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/mathematics.html

Re: Anything from the Symbol font to add along with W*dings?

2011-08-16 Thread Andreas Prilop
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Philippe Verdy wrote: Even Netscape 4 was able to display all symbols from http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/mathematics.html correctly. Yes, but probably not the last part of the table (displayed on the page from the link labelled more...), That is a

Non-standard Tibetan stacks (was Re: Sanskrit nasalized L)

2011-08-16 Thread Andrew West
On 16 August 2011 18:19, Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com wrote: These stacks are highly unusual and are considered beyond the scope of plain text rendering. They may be handled by higher-level mechanisms. The question is: have any such mechanisms been defined and deployed by anyone? In

Re: Non-standard Tibetan stacks (was Re: Sanskrit nasalized L)

2011-08-16 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 8/16/2011 3:32 PM, Andrew West wrote: On 16 August 2011 18:19, Asmus Freytagasm...@ix.netcom.com wrote: These stacks are highly unusual and are considered beyond the scope of plain text rendering. They may be handled by higher-level mechanisms. The question is: have any such mechanisms

encoding local variants

2011-08-16 Thread mmarx
As nobody seems to share my exasperation about damma, dammatan, damma with dot being encoded a second time, let's move on. I had always hoped that locale would solve my problems, had hoped that there would be locale like pak-quran, nigeria-quran panarab-quran or quran-qalun, and that intelligent