Re: definition of plain text

2011-10-14 Thread Peter Cyrus
Ken, your explanation seems more permissive than I had anticipated. Your example of "32" would seem to me at risk of behaving in unforeseen ways if, for instance, it were split up. Wouldn't it match a string "up > 2"? Wouldn't it fail to match 3²? I guess I thought that plain text should be mor

Re: definition of plain text

2011-10-14 Thread Ken Whistler
On 10/14/2011 11:47 AM, Joó Ádám wrote: Peter asked for what the Unicode Consortium considers plain text, ie. what principles it apllies when deciding whether to encode a certain element or aspect of writing as a character. In turn, you thoroughly explained that plain text is what the Unicode Con

Re: definition of plain text

2011-10-14 Thread Joó Ádám
Ken, Peter asked for what the Unicode Consortium considers plain text, ie. what principles it apllies when deciding whether to encode a certain element or aspect of writing as a character. In turn, you thoroughly explained that plain text is what the Unicode Consortium considered to be plain text

Re: definition of plain text

2011-10-14 Thread Ken Whistler
On 10/13/2011 10:49 PM, Peter Cyrus wrote: Is there a definition or guideline for the distinction between plain text and rich text? I think where you may be getting hung up is trying to define plain text versus rich text in terms of the content and/or appearance of the text (i.e. the outcome)

Re: Noticed improvement in the Code chart link http://www.unicode.org/charts/

2011-10-14 Thread delex r
- Original Message - From: Asmus Freytag To: Shriramana Sharma Cc: unicode@unicode.org Sent: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:20:41 +0530 (IST) Subject: Re: Noticed improvement in the Code chart link http://www.unicode.org/charts/ On 10/13/2011 10:23 AM, Shriramana S

Re: Placement of Bengali Candrabindu

2011-10-14 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri wrote: > > > I did not get why you have written 'so called "Bengali" script' but did not > not add 'so called' to Assamese / Kampuri / AMBM / Pub Nagari / Eastern > Nagari scripts. Kindly enlighten. Dear sir, It was just a joke. No offence