Re: WORD JOINER vs ZWNBSP

2015-07-03 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Thu, Jul 02, 2015, Richard Wordingham wrote: On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 10:37:17 +0200 (CEST) Marcel Schneider wrote: (because it is sufficient to simply type the words one after each other without anything between, to get them as *one* word) This only applies where it is traditional to

Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode

2015-07-03 Thread Ken Whistler
On 7/2/2015 5:56 PM, Peter Constable wrote: Erkki, in this case, I think Philippe is making valid points. -For the proposal to be workable requires some means of ensuring stability of encoded representations. The way this would be done would be for CLDR to provide data with all valid

Re: WORD JOINER vs ZWNBSP

2015-07-03 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 17:19:13 +0200 (CEST) Marcel Schneider charupd...@orange.fr wrote: On Thu, Jul 02, 2015, Richard Wordingham wrote: This only applies where it is traditional to separate words, a habit the Romans got out of and the Irish revived. IMHO the case is a bit different in

Re: PRI #299 (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode)

2015-07-03 Thread Leo Broukhis
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote: Leo Broukhis leob at mailcom dot com wrote: What I don't like about PRI #399 is its proposing to use default- ignorable characters. On a non-vexillology-aware platform, I'd like to see something informative, albeit not

Re: PRI #299

2015-07-03 Thread Ken Whistler
On 7/3/2015 9:14 PM, Leo Broukhis wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote: Leo Broukhis leob at mailcom dot com wrote: What I don't like about PRI #399 is its proposing to use default- ignorable characters. On a non-vexillology-aware platform, I'd like to

Re: PRI #299

2015-07-03 Thread Leo Broukhis
Most platforms display unknown printable characters as white rectangles with hex digits in them. In Doug's message, I saw a rectangle with 01F in the upper row, and 3F3 in the lower row. Moreover, on any platform when users see unknown characters, they search for a font, install it and are able to

Re: PRI #299 (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode)

2015-07-03 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 7/3/2015 12:50 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: Leo Broukhis leob at mailcom dot com wrote: What I don't like about PRI #399 is its proposing to use default- ignorable characters. On a non-vexillology-aware platform, I'd like

PRI #299 (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode)

2015-07-03 Thread Doug Ewell
Leo Broukhis leob at mailcom dot com wrote: What I don't like about PRI #399 is its proposing to use default- ignorable characters. On a non-vexillology-aware platform, I'd like to see something informative, albeit not resembling a flag, but indicative of the intention to display a flag, like