Re: RE: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread William_J_G Overington
Peter Constable wrote as follows. Evidently there were more than two type of people. There are those who feel 50 years is long enough; there are others who feel that five years is long enough; there are likely others that feel 75 or 30 or some other values are long enough. Then there are

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
Well for now a reasonnably stable standard exists: URLs, that can point to a collection of pagenames (each site can choose its own registry to name/encode the flags) URLs are then returening images (you can make a site that can return images in several formats and with variable sizes as well or

RE: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote: Well for now a reasonnably stable standard exists: URLs, that can point to a collection of pagenames (each site can choose its own registry to name/encode the flags) URLs are the opposite of stability. Anyone can post whatever they

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Wed, 20 May 2015 17:15:28 -0700 Asmus Freytag (t) asmus-...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Have there been any discussions of the flag alphabet? (Signal flags). It seems to me that when schemes for representing sets of flags are discussed, it would be useful to keep open the ability to use the

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
URLs were initially deisgned to be stable (and this is still a strong recommendation). However I did not describe just URLs but URNs (whose URLs are just resolvers locating them). URNs share with URLs (and URIs in general, as well the UCS) the initial U which is intended to be universal (both in

RE: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Shawn Steele
I've always been a bit partial to them and found it odd that they are intentionally not included in Unicode. Especially the novel concepts like the repeats. -Original Message- From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Richard Wordingham Sent: Wednesday, May 20,

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
Have there been any discussions of the flag alphabet? (Signal flags). They are not that infrequently used online or in print, although the concentration tends to be higher in publications/sites geared to nautical audiences (not that different from chess pieces and chess publications). Now,

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Wed, 20 May 2015 17:29:28 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: This could also be of use now so as to display such items as the flag of the USA at various historical periods. It would be helpful if a particular year were chosen for normalization purposes: for

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 5/20/2015 9:57 PM, Eric Muller wrote: On 5/20/2015 7:11 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: In any event, URLs that point to images would be an awful basis for an encoding. I would make an exception for the URL http://unicode.org/Public/8.0.0/ucd/StandardizedFlags.html. Eric. Currently that gives

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 5/20/2015 6:14 PM, Shawn Steele wrote: I've always been a bit partial to them and found it odd that they are intentionally not included in Unicode. Especially the novel concepts like the repeats. :) If I were to write an actual proposal I would suggest naming them after their

Re: Tag characters

2015-05-20 Thread Eric Muller
On 5/20/2015 7:11 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: In any event, URLs that point to images would be an awful basis for an encoding. I would make an exception for the URL http://unicode.org/Public/8.0.0/ucd/StandardizedFlags.html. Eric.