Re: Possible to add new precomposed characters for local language in Togo?

Mats, it is really useful to document (let me amend that to "immensely useful" to document) the required combinations (perhaps in a Unicode Technical Note on African Writing Systems). It may even be useful to ask for these sequences to become "named sequenc

Possible to add new precomposed characters for local language in Togo?

I've worked to upload a keyboard for local languages in Togo to XKB project, it is a combination keyboard based on French keyboard and extended to make it possible to write all the local languages in Togo. However many of the languages have several tones and even use combined tones. However when I

Re: Copyleft Symbol

On 2/15/2016 5:08 PM, Robert Wheelock wrote: Hi! Shouldn’t the COPYLEFT SIGN be a small circled L?! It’s something to think about... In this thread, we are not discussing the best design for a

Re: Copyleft Symbol

Hi! Shouldn’t the COPYLEFT SIGN be a small circled L?! It’s something to think about... Thank You! On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: > On 2/15/2016 9:32 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: > > Asmus Freytag wrote: > > > with the non-standard symbols like the copyleft, there's the de

Re: Copyleft Symbol

On 2/15/2016 9:32 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: Asmus Freytag wrote: with the non-standard symbols like the copyleft, there's the desire to not encode stuff based on "passing activism". David Faulks wrote: The samples I have seem

Re: Copyleft Symbol

Asmus Freytag wrote: > with the non-standard symbols like the copyleft, there's the desire to > not encode stuff based on "passing activism". David Faulks wrote: > The samples I have seem to be from people who want to make a statement > via an anti-copyright message The lengthy thread from 200

Re: Copyleft Symbol

My advice: The most important thing is to have enough examples of the symbol in use in running text (i.e. not an icon or logo). Real published documents that demonstrate a user community are important. I recommend studying Unicode's Criteria for Encoding Symbols

Re: Copyleft Symbol

Am 15.02.2016 um 01:53 schrieb Asmus Freytag: > The key issue is whether this usage is "established". It is established as soon as it is part of Unicode :) > Showing that it has been used a few times is less useful than a good estimate > of how widely it is used. iOS has about 1 billon activ

Re: Copyleft Symbol

On 15/02/2016, David Faulks wrote: > .(there was actually a discussion about encoding it back in 2000 on this > mailing list). Presumably that indicates at least 15 years of usage - far longer than most emoji. - Chris

Re: Copyleft Symbol

> Sun, 2/14/16, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: > Subject: Re: Copyleft Symbol > To: unicode@unicode.org > Received: Sunday, February 14, 2016, 7:53 PM >> On 2/14/2016 3:36 PM, David Faulks wrote: < text cut> >> If the copyleft (reversed ©) symbol was proposed >> for encoding, with examples (from PDF