Re: PRI #202: Extensions to NameAliases.txt for Unicode 6.1.0

2011-08-28 Thread Philippe Verdy
2011/8/27 Asmus Freytag : > I also think that the status field "iso6429" is badly named. It should be > "control", and what is named control should be "control-alternate", or > perhaps, both of these groups should become simply "control". I think the > labels chosen by the data file just set up bad

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

2011-08-28 Thread Craig McQueen
From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Craig McQueen Sent: Tuesday, 16 August 2011 1:28 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Encoding of Emoji in SMS, and UCS-2 vs UTF-16 The SMS standard specifies UCS-2 encoding: http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/2

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

2011-08-28 Thread Doug Ewell
I would think all standards that specify the use of UCS-2 should be updated to specify UTF-16 instead. There is simply no excuse for any technology that deals with characters to be arbitrarily limited to the BMP. -- Doug Ewell • d...@ewellic.org Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -Original Messa

Re: Greek Characters Duplicated as Latin (was: Sanskrit nasalized L)

2011-08-28 Thread Philippe Verdy
Richard Wordingham wrote: > U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI is for IPA usage, and, unlike Greek, > always has an ascender. For linguistic Greek usage, the two variants are considered equivalent. This is not the case in Maths where thee two variants are clearly distinct. That's why (La)TeX preserves

Re: PRI #202: Extensions to NameAliases.txt for Unicode 6.1.0

2011-08-28 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy wrote: If there are other mappings to do with other standards, and those standards must be only informative, we already have the "/MAPPINGS" directory beside the "/UNIDATA" directory where the UCD belongs too. But in general, with the exception of MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/SGML.TXT,

Re: PRI #202: Extensions to NameAliases.txt for Unicode 6.1.0

2011-08-28 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 8/28/2011 9:46 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: Philippe Verdy wrote: If there are other mappings to do with other standards, and those standards must be only informative, we already have the "/MAPPINGS" directory beside the "/UNIDATA" directory where the UCD belongs too. But in general, with the exc

Re: PRI #202: Extensions to NameAliases.txt for Unicode 6.1.0

2011-08-28 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 8/28/2011 6:43 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote: 2011/8/27 Asmus Freytag: I also think that the status field "iso6429" is badly named. It should be "control", and what is named control should be "control-alternate", or perhaps, both of these groups should become simply "control". I think the labels c