Re: Unicode 6.2 to Support the Turkish Lira Sign

2012-05-27 Thread Kent Karlsson
Somebody wrote: For the ₤ we can define EXACTLY what it is: a scriptive capital Latin L with a double crossbar, in this very combination standing in for the term “Lira” (derived from Latin “libra”), meaning a monetary unit of that same name. ₤ (and £, which should have been the same

Re: Unicode 6.2 to Support the Turkish Lira Sign

2012-05-27 Thread Doug Ewell
Asmus Freytag wrote: The typographers may not like that they won't be given the time to allow them to organically grow a design, but fonts are appearing and are using dubious encodings - thus the need for Unicode to act quickly - and decisively. This is perhaps one of the more annoying

Re: Unicode 6.2 to Support the Turkish Lira Sign

2012-05-27 Thread Michael Everson
Get over it. Please just get over it. It doesn't matter. It's a blort. There are many blorts. I've discovered some working with Unifon. I haven't exactly had much support from the UTC with what I've discovered. I've found the usual posturing about possible unifications with other scripts. I

Re: Unicode 6.2 to Support the Turkish Lira Sign

2012-05-27 Thread Philippe Verdy
May be this time you were a little tired when posting this message, which is almost impossible to decipher to know what you really want to mean or demonstrate. All of this is ambiguous. Consider rewriting that once you have slept a good night in your bed at home, if you ever had a good sunny

Discontiguous Collation Grapheme Clusters

2012-05-27 Thread Richard Wordingham
I'm currently reviewing the definition of the Unicode Collation Algorithm (as opposed to just trying to comply with it), and I came across the concept of collation grapheme clusters, defined in UTS#18 'Unicode Regular Expressions'. For what types of strings are they supposed to be defined? Any?

Re: Discontiguous Collation Grapheme Clusters

2012-05-27 Thread Philippe Verdy
UTS#18 is really a mess about collation clusters. But remamber that collation elements are specific to each language for which they are defined (including the root locale which acts as a pseudo-language just working as a default option for all languages that don't have specific collation rules for

Re: BabelMap updated to 6.1

2012-05-27 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-05-25 8:58, Shriramana Sharma wrote: For those interested, Andrew West's BabelMap (http://www.babelstone.co.uk/software/babelmap.html) has been updated to Unicode 6.1 just a couple days back. Thanks for the info. BabelMap has been bundled into BabelPad, and installing the newest version

Re: BabelMap updated to 6.1

2012-05-27 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: BabelMap has been bundled into BabelPad, and installing the newest version of BabelPad from http://www.babelstone.co.uk/software/babelpad.html gets you the new BabelMap version too. If this is so then why isn't this