Re: In 2013, there are still programs with huge Unicode bugs :-(

2013-03-23 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
You probably thought on the little Bobby Tables when writing this email... http://xkcd.com/327/ Le 23 mars 2013 01:35, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr a écrit : And how many web forms forget to check the presence of a percent sign and are executing SQL searches without cheking it using

Re: Rendering Raised FULL STOP between Digits

2013-03-23 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:49:24 -0700 Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On 3/22/2013 6:17 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:01:14 -0700 Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On 03/21/2013 04:48 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: However, distinguishing U+00B7 and

Re: Rendering Raised FULL STOP between Digits

2013-03-23 Thread Michael Everson
On 23 Mar 2013, at 01:01, Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Let's get back to the interesting question: Is it possible to correctly process text that uses 00B7 for ANO TELEIA, or is this fundamentally impossible? If so, under what scenario? It is possible to process text without

Re: Rendering Raised FULL STOP between Digits

2013-03-23 Thread Philippe Verdy
2013/3/23 Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com: It is possible to process text without Unicode at all, using sets and sets of 8-bit font-hack fonts. We all did it for years. What a deceptive solution ! Without abandoning Unicode, it would be much simpler to use PUA characters, and.custom fonts

Re: Rendering Raised FULL STOP between Digits

2013-03-23 Thread Karl Pentzlin
Am Freitag, 22. März 2013 um 17:29 schrieb Richard Wordingham: RW Is there evidence of conscious RW distinction of U+02BC MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE and U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE RW QUOTATION MARK ... See: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Okina-using-Linux-Libertine.svg -- Karl P.

Re: Rendering Raised FULL STOP between Digits

2013-03-23 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 3/23/2013 4:55 AM, Michael Everson wrote: On 23 Mar 2013, at 01:01, Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Let's get back to the interesting question: Is it possible to correctly process text that uses 00B7 for ANO TELEIA, or is this fundamentally impossible? If so, under what