On 1/9/2012 2:40 PM, Doug Ewell wrote:
Asmus,
I think I see your point. Certainly I didn't intend to take the
experience of encoding the emoji characters and promote it as some sort
of preferred path for getting characters encoded in Unicode. Far from
it.
Rather, I was trying to describe the
Asmus,
I think I see your point. Certainly I didn't intend to take the
experience of encoding the emoji characters and promote it as some sort
of preferred path for getting characters encoded in Unicode. Far from
it.
Rather, I was trying to describe the use case for the emoji symbols:
someone (
On 1/9/2012 12:23 PM, Asmus Freytag wrote:
So, my question remains, are there any other avenues besides
hot-metal printed text
I assume that was an exaggeration for rhetorical effect -- since hot-metal
printing technology went out half a century ago, replaced first by
phototypesetting and then
This discussion has veered close enough to my pet project (the Shwa
script) to comment.
I plan to implement it in the PUA, both to demonstrate its value and
viability and to find the problems and correct them before they get
frozen into Unicode (if ever). I accept that means an eventual
recoding,
Philip,
In your text, you write:
Geometric shapes are normally centred on the math axis, and may be
presumed to be independent of the baseline. The height of the math axis
above the baseline, however, and consideration of caps height, x-height,
etc, can be expected to produce differe
On 1/9/2012 2:52 AM, vanis...@boil.afraid.org wrote:
From: Asmus Freytag
I have no opinion on the Upside-down FU ideograph as a candidate for
encoding, but I think any analysis of its merits needs to be more
nuanced than what your message seemed to imply.
A./
While I generally agree with your
On 1/9/2012 9:29 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
Asmus Freytag wrote:
I think "if this were encoded, I think people might want to use it"
was explicitly not a reason to encode something.
I think you are possibly overstating this slightly.
As often quoted, it's a maxim intended to guard against encodin
A little work on the size tables given on page 3 of ISO/IEC
JTC1/SC2/WG2 N 4115, Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings
Symbols, shows that the two tables used in N4115 (for diamonds
and squares) are near enough identical to each other, and to the
range of sizes illustrated in Table 2.5 in UTR 25 (
Asmus Freytag wrote:
>> I think "if this were encoded, I think people might want to use it"
>> was explicitly not a reason to encode something.
>
> I think you are possibly overstating this slightly.
>
> As often quoted, it's a maxim intended to guard against encoding
> characters for which there
From: Asmus Freytag
> On 1/8/2012 1:41 PM, Doug Ewell wrote:
> > I think "if this were encoded, I think people might want to use it" was
> explicitly not a reason to encode something.
>
> Doug,
>
> I think you are possibly overstating this slightly.
>
> As often quoted, it's a maxim intended t
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