Re: Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-29 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 12/29/2014 10:32 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: Asmus Freytag wrote: The "critical mass" of support is now assumed for currency symbols, some special symbols like emoji, and should be granted to additional types of symbols, punctuations and letters, whenever there is an "authority" that controls norm

Re: Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-29 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wrote: The lack of interest has always puzzled me, I had thought that with so many people on this mailing list who are interested in languages and communication, including many people who have a native language other than English, that there would be great interest in tr

Re: Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-29 Thread Doug Ewell
Asmus Freytag wrote: The "critical mass" of support is now assumed for currency symbols, some special symbols like emoji, and should be granted to additional types of symbols, punctuations and letters, whenever there is an "authority" that controls normative orthography or notation. Whether thi

Re: Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-29 Thread William_J_G Overington
Erkki I. Kolehmainen wrote as follows: > The question of support for localizable sentences has been raised by you on several occasions. For a number of valid reasons, It has never received any noticeable support, let alone the kind of support that you are asking for now. Well, it is true that there