Re: Engmagate?

2013-12-13 Thread Jean-François Colson
Le 13/12/13 08:33, Denis Jacquerye a écrit : On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Michael Everson wrote: On 12 Dec 2013, at 15:29, Leo Broukhis wrote: Hasn't http://www.unicode.org/standard/where/#Variant_Shapes explained it once and for all? No, because users of N-shaped capital Eng consider

RE: Engmagate?

2013-12-13 Thread Jonathan Rosenne
All this just endorses "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language" Best regards, Jonathan (Jony) Rosenne -Original Message- From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Denis Jacquerye Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 9:33 AM To: Micha

Re: Engmagate?

2013-12-13 Thread Jean-François Colson
Le 13/12/13 08:58, Jean-François Colson a écrit : Le 13/12/13 08:33, Denis Jacquerye a écrit : On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Michael Everson wrote: On 12 Dec 2013, at 15:29, Leo Broukhis wrote: Hasn't http://www.unicode.org/standard/where/#Variant_Shapes explained it once and for all? N

Re: Engmagate?

2013-12-13 Thread Jean-François Colson
Le 12/12/13 23:52, Asmus Freytag a écrit : On 12/12/2013 2:25 PM, Leo Broukhis wrote: Hmmm... As a person with Russian as the first language I can assure you that from any literate Russian-speaking person's perspective italic ū is an unacceptable and *WRONG* representation of п (because in Rus

Re: Engmagate?

2013-12-13 Thread Karl Pentzlin
Am Freitag, 13. Dezember 2013 um 08:13 schrieb Jean-François Colson: JFC> Is that as wrong as if “ændern” was used instead of “ändern” in German Yes, this is a good example. You somehow recognize what the correct character would be, and if you see this repeatedly in a longer text, you get an im

RE: Engmagate?

2013-12-13 Thread Whistler, Ken
Well, inconceivable? No. Inadvisable? yes. First of all, such “comments” are not actually “comments”—they are the result of a fairly cumbersome and drawn-out process of adding *normative* standardized variation sequences to the standard. Second – although this is a nit – FE0E and FE0F would not