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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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,
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
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
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
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.
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