Re: Why 17 planes?

Yes I know and I was clear about this that this was not in scope of the current standard encoding policy Which however still does not prevent another upward-compatible standard to emerge using another encoding policy (e.g. for encoding glyphs or coporate logos, in an Internet-based registry, with

Re: xkcd: LTR

2012/11/28 Leif Halvard Silli xn--mlform-...@xn--mlform-iua.no Philippe Verdy, Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:50:06 +0100: detects a violation of the required extended prolog (sorry, the HTML5 document declaration, which is not a valid document declaration for XHTML or for HTML4 or before or even

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Clive Hohberger cp...@case.edu wrote: BTW, the routine capitalization of 'E' in E-mail came in the 1990's from William Safire's On Language column in the NY Times newspaper: He made

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

N. Ganesan wrote: On Shiva Aiyadurai's first use of the term in 1978, email for networked electronic messages, apparently Indians and lexicographers do care to know. And the connection to Unicode is... what? -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell ­

Re: Why 17 planes?

Philippe Verdy verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote: Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:04:41 +0100 Yes I know and I was clear about this that this was not in scope of the current standard encoding policy Which however still does not prevent another upward-compatible standard to emerge using

UTF-8 isn't the default for HTML (was: xkcd: LTR)

Philippe Verdy, Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:02:45 +0100: In this case, Firefox and IE should not even be able to render *any* XHTML page because it violates the HTML5 standard. (1) The page in question (http://www.xn--elqus623b.net/XKCD/1137.html) is (from a source code point of view) a pure XHTML

What is happening with hieroglyphs (was: RE: Why 17 planes?)

Philippe is (apparently) referring to higher-level protocols for markup of hieroglyphic text. See, e.g., Table 14-10 and Figure 14-2, p. 489 in Section 14.18, Egyptian Hieroglyphs in TUS 6.2: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch14.pdf Similar kinds of higher-level protocols are

Re: ‮LTR

John H. Jenkins wrote: Or, if one prefers: http://www.井作恆.net/XKCD/1137.html In all the ensuing discussion about this page, did anyone notice the typo in the Deseret cartoon? ☺ -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell ­

Re: LTR

The non-mirrored question mark ? 2012/11/29 Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org John H. Jenkins wrote: Or, if one prefers: http://www.井作恆.net/XKCD/1137.**htmlhttp://www.xn--elqus623b.net/XKCD/1137.html In all the ensuing discussion about this page, did anyone notice the typo in the Deseret