Re: a suggestion new emoji .

2015-08-18 Thread Niki Selken
Touché! 😑 Thanks, Niki Excuse my spelling, this is sent from my iPhone > On Aug 18, 2015, at 6:13 PM, Shawn Steele wrote: > > I'm sure Klingons love them! > > -Original Message- > From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Mark E. > Shoulson > Sent: Tuesday, Augu

RE: a suggestion new emoji .

2015-08-18 Thread Shawn Steele
I'm sure Klingons love them! -Original Message- From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Mark E. Shoulson Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 5:53 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: a suggestion new emoji . On 08/18/2015 07:20 PM, Emma Haneys wrote: > hello dear uni

Re: a suggestion new emoji .

2015-08-18 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
On 08/18/2015 07:20 PM, Emma Haneys wrote: hello dear unicode , i just wondering if i can suggest a new emoji . hoppefully you can respone to me . i suggest one and only for fruit category . it is a durian . thanx Ah, durians. Kind of a cross between food and weaponry. ~mark

a suggestion new emoji .

2015-08-18 Thread Emma Haneys
hello dear unicode , i just wondering if i can suggest a new emoji . hoppefully you can respone to me . i suggest one and only for fruit category . it is a durian . thanx

Re: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Ken Whistler
On 8/18/2015 9:45 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: Ken Whistler wrote: Then we're back to the central point that Alex Weiner originally expressed, in arguing for the encoding of precomposed letters with underbar: The string length functionality would view an 'A' code point combined with an '_' code p

RE: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Doug Ewell
Ken Whistler wrote: >> A more >> robust approach for their purposes might be to teach ρ to exclude >> combining characters (gc=Mn) when counting the "size" of a string. > > And it seems to me that that is *very* unlikely to happen, precisely > because ρ is so deeply embedded in the array and vect

Re: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Ken Whistler
On 8/18/2015 9:23 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: Tom Gewecke wrote: I guess the question is whether having a named sequence would somehow make it easier for the gnu apl folks to add something to their system so that their string length function sees such a sequence as having a length of "1"? I don't

RE: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Doug Ewell
Ken Whistler wrote: > Returning to a historical note on the glyphic forms and the question > of combining low lines or combining macrons below... admittedly a > side note on this thread, the *original* identification of these APL > uppercase Latin letters, at least in their IBM implementations, w

RE: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Doug Ewell
Tom Gewecke wrote: > I guess the question is whether having a named sequence would somehow > make it easier for the gnu apl folks to add something to their system > so that their string length function sees such a sequence as having a > length of "1"? I don't see why that would, or should, be th

Re: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Ken Whistler
Returning to a historical note on the glyphic forms and the question of combining low lines or combining macrons below... admittedly a side note on this thread, the *original* identification of these APL uppercase Latin letters, at least in their IBM implementations, was clearly as uppercase (ital

Re: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Tom Gewecke
On Aug 18, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: > > It is NOT necessary for a combining sequence to be assigned a name, > either by the Unicode Technical Committee or by anyone else, in order to > use it. Note that of the two sequences: > > A̱ <0041, 0331> > A̲ <0041, 0332> > > neither sequenc

Re: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/18/2015 6:18 AM, alexwei...@alexweiner.com wrote: "PUA"? Private use area. A./ PS: "underbar" is Swedish for "wonderful". Go figure. Original Message Subject: RE: APL Under-bar Characters From: "Erk

RE: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Doug Ewell
wrote: > Since it seems that all hope of adding characters is lost, I think the > next best goal would be to try an reach some sort of semblance between > the Unicode Consortium and a nebulous group of people (APLers) who > really believe that the uppercase under-bar letters are atomic and > diff

Re: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread alexweiner
ah yes. I believe the "private use area" was also suggested and may provide a route to take -Alex Original Message Subject: Re: APL Under-bar Characters From: Leo Broukhis Date: Aug 18, 2015 10:38 AM To: alexwei...@alexweiner.com CC: e...@iki.fi,charupd...@orange.fr,"unicode U

Re: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Leo Broukhis
http://www.acronymfinder.com/Information-Technology/PUA.html On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:18 PM, wrote: > "PUA"? > > Original Message > Subject: RE: APL Under-bar Characters > From: "Erkki I Kolehmainen" > Date: Aug 18, 2015 6:55 AM > To: "'Marcel Schneider'" ,"'Unicode Mailing L

RE: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread alexweiner
"PUA"? Original Message Subject: RE: APL Under-bar Characters From: "Erkki I Kolehmainen" Date: Aug 18, 2015 6:55 AM To: "'Marcel Schneider'" ,"'Unicode Mailing List'" CC: alexwei...@alexweiner.com Mr. Schneider Free Software Movement or not makes no difference. Furthermo

RE: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Erkki I Kolehmainen
Mr. Schneider Free Software Movement or not makes no difference. Furthermore, please consult the membership roster of Unicode before making statements on what Unicode is a consortium of. You also state: If underbar letters are for the sole use of GNU APL, their implementation and font s

Re: Custom keyboard source samples (was: Re: Windows keyboard restrictions)

2015-08-18 Thread Marcel Schneider
On 18 Aug 2015 at 10:09, Philippe Verdy wrote: > it helps if hou reduce the processor frequency (if you don't have a tool fir > that, use the energy control panel and set the power profile to max energy > saving) just before clicking the button to build the package. That's a very good idea. I'

Re: Custom keyboard source samples (was: Re: Windows keyboard restrictions)

2015-08-18 Thread Philippe Verdy
it helps if hou reduce the processor frequency (if you don't have a tool fir that, use the energy control panel and set the power profile to max energy saving) just before clicking the button to build the package. i don't know why these c source files need to be deleted so fast when they could jus

Re: APL Under-bar Characters

2015-08-18 Thread Marcel Schneider
On 18 Aug 2015 at 06:56, David Starner wrote: > There are many languages, particularly Native American languages, given > written form in the typewriter era that use letters with under-bar as part of > their alphabet. And the underbar is no different from the cedilla, the acute > and grave acc