Re: Tag characters

Thanks Ken; and yes Doug; http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15107.htm#143-C27 was the reference I was looking for when I wrote my too- brief reply earlier. My apologies. S Enviado desde nuestro iPhone. > On May 27, 2015, at 2:06 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: > > Ken Whistler wrote: > >> Read on in

Re: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

I think I've figured out the philosophy WJGO is trying to follow here. "We should have a way to encode graphics in Unicode" "We should have a way to encode programming instructions in Unicode" How about "We should have a way to encode sound-waves in Unicode"? Or "We should have a way to encode *m

Re: FYI: The world?s languages, in 7 maps and charts

"Mark Davis" wrote: >> Hmmm. How accurate can it be? They forgot Austria, and got Switzerland >> wrong by almost a power of 10. I was a little surprised to see only 15.6 Australians speak English, which led me to wonder what the other 8 million of us speak. I see that the ethnologue site they u

Re: FYI: The world's languages, in 7 maps and charts

I think it is gives a misleading picture to only include mother-language speakers, rather than all languages (at a reasonable level of fluency). Every Swiss German is fluent in High German. Part of the problem is that it is very hard to get good data on the multiple languages that people speak—a h

RE: Tag characters

Ken Whistler wrote: > Read on in the minutes to the next day. 143-C27 and related actions. Ah. Thank you. Now I understand what Steven meant by "read the minutes," too. That's the problem with reading individual items in meeting minutes: each item is a snapshot in time, and the next day of the

Re: Tag characters

Doug, Read on in the minutes to the next day. 143-C27 and related actions. There are a few things to keep in mind here. 1. The un-deprecation of the tags U+E0020..U+E007E *is* part of the UCD for Unicode 8.0. The change has already taken place in the revised beta files now posted (see PropList.

Re: Tag characters

On Tuesday, May 19, Mark Davis 🍷 wrote: > A more concrete proposal will be in a PRI to be issued soon, If the new mechanism is intended "for Unicode 8.0," as stated in the minutes at http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15107.htm#143-M1 ... ... and if Unicode 8.0 is "planned for release in June, 201

RE: Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

William_J_G Overington wrote: > Please feel free to suggest improvements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸

Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters) This document suggests a way to use the method of a base character together with tag characters to produce a graphic. The approach is theoretical and has not, at this time, been tried in practice. The application in mind is to enable the g

RE: Tag characters

Well, the same reasoning could also argue for the contra-positive (a→b ⊨ ¬b→¬a): that UTC should not consider endorsing such a tag scheme. Peter From: William_J_G Overington [mailto:wjgo_10...@btinternet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 12:54 AM To: unicode@unicode.org; Peter Constable; eric.m

Re: FYI: The world's languages, in 7 maps and charts

If the various Chinese languages/dialects are similar enough to be counted in a single category, then certainly Swiss German Is similar enough to the German spoken in Germany and Austria to be counted in the same category. Sent from my iPhone > On May 27, 2015, at 07:59, Denis Jacquerye wrote

Re: FYI: The world's languages, in 7 maps and charts

The data used to build the infographic comes from Ethnologue.com. http://www.ethnologue.com/language/deu does not indicate the Standard German L1 population in Austria and gives a population of 727 000 Standard German L1 speakers in Switzerland (the difference is counted as Swiss German L1 speakers

Re: FYI: The world’s languages, in 7 maps and charts

Hmmm. How accurate can it be? They forgot Austria, and got Switzerland wrong by almost a power of 10. Mark *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Denis Jacquerye wrote: > The South China Morning Post published a similar infograph

Re: FYI: The world’s languages, in 7 maps and charts

The South China Morning Post published a similar infographic: A world of languages - and how many speak them http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/infographic-world-languages

Re: Tag characters

Peter Constable wrote as follows: > Would Unicode really want to get into the business of running a UFL service? Well, Unicode is about precision, interoperability and long-term stability, and, given, in relation to one particular specified base character followed by some tag characters, that a p