2013/2/17 Richard Wordingham :
> No. I am trying to confirm that there will never be any character but
> U+0344, U+0F73, U+0F75 and U+0F81 that has a non-singleton canonical
> decomposition to non-starters. The only way I see can for that to
> happen is a decomposition via one of U+0F73, U+0F75 a
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:12:26 -0800
Asmus Freytag wrote:
> On 2/17/2013 8:20 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > Is there any guarantee that U+E4567 will not have a
> > canonical decomposition mapping to > U+E4568>? If so, where is it published? I thought we had guarantees
> > that new canonical d
On 17/02/13 10:48, Philippe Verdy wrote:
I was not citing empirical results but things that are regulated by legislation.
And your existing empirical results are just nfomal tests ignoring
important parts of the population of drivers, notably:
- those driving by night : the effet of some visual d
On 2/17/2013 8:20 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
Is there any guarantee that U+E4567 will not have a
canonical decomposition mapping to ? If so, where is it published? I thought we had guarantees
that new canonical decompositions to non-starters would not be created
(to in this case), but I cann
Is there any guarantee that U+E4567 will not have a
canonical decomposition mapping to ? If so, where is it published? I thought we had guarantees
that new canonical decompositions to non-starters would not be created
(to in this case), but I cannot find it. This
conceivable decomposition mappin
On 2013-02-17, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> I was not citing empirical results but things that are regulated by
> legislation.
No you weren't - you were making explicit claims that lowercase is
harder to read than capitals. You said nothing about regulation.
> And your existing empirical results are
Thanks to all for your comments on the problem of copying a Hebrew phrase from
Adobe to Word.
The Hebrew phrase is מהלך חמה הבינוני בשנים מחוברות ופרוטות וחדשים
I have had another look at the problem, with these results.
Copy from Adobe Acrobat 6 (with Select text):
Paste into Word as rtf -
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Am 17.02.2013 05:40, schrieb Asmus Freytag:
> For Germany, look at
> http://www.ace-online.de/fileadmin/user_uploads/Der_Club/Presse-Archiv/Bilder/Verkehr/Autobahn/Autobahn_01.jpg
Too bad that this picture is not a few pixels wider,
else you would see
I was not citing empirical results but things that are regulated by legislation.
And your existing empirical results are just nfomal tests ignoring
important parts of the population of drivers, notably:
- those driving by night : the effet of some visual defects like
asygmatism, which is only parti
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:08:24 -0800
Asmus Freytag wrote:
> On 2/16/2013 7:04 AM, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>> I found Diauni.ttf at
>> http://www.thesauruslex.com/typo/dialekt.htm (swedish)
>> http://www.thesauruslex.com/typo/engdial.htm (english)
>> It has landmålsalfabetet at E100-E197 (lower c
I think it's a waste of everybody's time to even contemplate forcing
"fallback" transformations (which are a pain to program) when
perfectly straightforward capital form can be deduced, and has been
deduced (at least by font creators - we don't know what user requests
they based their work on
On 2/16/2013 11:19 PM, Julian Bradfield wrote:
On 2013-02-17, Philippe Verdy wrote:
True lowercase letters are causing problems on road sign indicators on
roads with high speed : they are hard to read and if the driver has to
look at them for one more second, he does not look at the road.
AS I
On 2/17/2013 12:30 AM, Stephan Stiller wrote:
But I have to ask one more thing:
Since the latter is expected to be rare, I personally would be
comfortable with making a code point for it, so that fonts like this,
which are actually used, can be mapped to Unicode w/o forcing people
into weird
As far as real ambiguities are introduced, the loss of capitalization
on the first letter introduces far more, impressionistically speaking,
and they might be legally subtle
Though, to partially correct myself, /this/ is an issue for English, but
not really for German.
But I have to ask one
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