Re: Additional adoption form on codepoints.net

2015-12-17 Thread Manuel Strehl
Thank you! Yes, that's an implicit part of the "I'd like feedback from the people involved" :-) In fact, if such a GET parameter existed, I could remove the dialog and replace it with a simple link. This sounds like a good idea in principle. (It would also fix Leo Broukhis' issue.) Does anyone kn

Re: UN/LOCODE perspective on character sets

2015-12-17 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
Haven't looked it over in detail, but here is the notice: http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/cefact/locode/2015-2_UNLOCODE_SecretariatNotes.pdf >From a quick scan: They've added latitude/longitude (to the minute, ~2km); that's great because often the names of locations are ambiguous. They still

Re: Additional adoption form on codepoints.net

2015-12-17 Thread Max Truxa
If that's the only reason to post the form yourself, you could request the addition of an optional get parameter on the adoption page. If it's clear that this parameter is intended to be used by third party services the "stability problem" would be solved. Otherwise, great idea! Thanks for the com

Re: Additional adoption form on codepoints.net

2015-12-17 Thread Leo Broukhis
By "should end with the link" I implied "should not contain anything that followed it at the time of my comment, including the form and the - thus obviated - disclaimer. :) If submitting a form to a 3rd party site results in an error for any reason, the error will be displayed by the target host.

Re: Additional adoption form on codepoints.net

2015-12-17 Thread Manuel Strehl
Thanks for the comment! > As far as I'm concerned, the pop-up contents should end with the link > "Read more about codepoint adoption." In your brief description, you > might want to add a proviso about the temporary nature of character > adoption. Good catch! The 12-month period is important to m

Re: Additional adoption form on codepoints.net

2015-12-17 Thread Leo Broukhis
As far as I'm concerned, the pop-up contents should end with the link "Read more about codepoint adoption." In your brief description, you might want to add a proviso about the temporary nature of character adoption. Submitting forms to a 3rd party site is a bad idea. Leo On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 a

Additional adoption form on codepoints.net

2015-12-17 Thread Manuel Strehl
Hi, please let me start by saying, that I think the adoption of characters is a very good idea to provide funding for the development of Unicode. To promote this idea, I thought it could be worthwhile to place an "adopt this codepoint" button on the description pages of code points on https://cod

Re: UN/LOCODE perspective on character sets

2015-12-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
Good catch. Once again a lot of misconception by someone who wrote it without looking at conformance requirements in these standards. The so called "standard United States character set (437)" is also a proprietary legacy charset widely used in the US but not adopted as an US standard. It should ha

UN/LOCODE perspective on character sets

2015-12-17 Thread Doug Ewell
UN/LOCODE version 2015-2 has been released [1], and the Manual still contains the following about character sets: "27. Place names in UN/LOCODE are given in their national language versions as expressed in the Roman alphabet using the 26 characters of the character set adopted for international tr