Re: Public Review Issue 232 Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (Copy of email sent to the list; also posted by me to unicode feedback/public review issue-- but this has not yet po

I sometimes have a closing dash and sometimes not /And/ let's not forget that one often has what is semantically a pair of parenthetical dashes, either the opening or the closing component of which is eaten up by the beginning or the end of the sentence, resp. These punctuation rules are ra

Re: Public Review Issue 232 Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (Copy of email sent to the list; also posted by me to unicode feedback/public review issue-- but this has not yet po

I don't think dashes should be mirrored at all however. (Many of my dashes -- for example these -- are quite symmetrical; but others are not -- I sometimes have a closing dash and sometimes not; but Emily Dickinson is really the expert on the use of the dash: http://mith.umd.edu//WomensStudie

Re: Public Review Issue 232 Proposed Update UAX #9, Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (Copy of email sent to the list; also posted by me to unicode feedback/public review issue-- but this has not yet po

Hi. From: Philippe Verdy Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:21:39 +0100 > Letter-like mathematical symbols are those like Product (Greek capital > Pi), Sum (Greek capital Sigma). Mirroring them by default would have > strange effects, even if they may be mirrored in formulas. > Lower-than

Re: Case-folding dotted i

On 1/24/2013 2:15 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote: If text is going to be processed, i+dot is wrong for Turkish, as the Unicode casing rules for Turkish will capitalise it to I+dot+dot, which should display with two dots. If you're going to use an explicit dot, I'd have said would be better, though

Re: Old Cyrillic Yest

I found something terrible. Sorry, I did not make a photo. That is a modern book with [http://litopys.org.ua/smotrgram/sm11.htm]-this text of Meletius Smotrytsky Grammar, but a reprint, not a faximile like I refer to. Here are the rules about using BROAD YEST and NARROW YEST. Modern publisher used

Re: Old Cyrillic Yest

2013/1/29 QSJN 4 UKR > I found something terrible. Sorry, I did not make a photo. That is a > modern book with [http://litopys.org.ua/smotrgram/sm11.htm]-this text of > Meletius Smotrytsky Grammar, but a reprint, not a faximile like I refer to. > Here are the rules about using BROAD YEST and NAR

Re: Long-term archiving of electronic text documents

2013/1/29 Jim Breen : > William_J_G Overington wrote: > >> The idea is that there would be an additional UTF format, perhaps UTF-64, >> so that each character would be expressed in UTF-64 notation using 64 bits, >> thus providing error checking and correction facilities at a character level. > > E