Julian Bradfield wrote,
> I have never seen a Unicode math alphabet character in email
> outside this list.
It's being done though. Check this message from 2013 which includes the
following, copy/pasted from the web page into Notepad:
𝘗𝘈𝘙𝘛 𝘖𝘍 𝗔𝖳𝖮𝗭.𝖥𝖱𝖠𝖬𝖤𝖶𝖮𝖱𝖪 © 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟯 𝖠𝖫𝖤𝖷 𝖦𝖱𝖠𝖸
𝗀𝗂𝗍𝗁𝗎𝖻.𝖼𝗈𝗆/𝗺
On 2019-01-13, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
> यदि आप किसी रोटरी फोन से कॉल कर रहे हैं, तो कृपया स्टार (*) दबाएं।
> What happens with Devanagari text? Should the user community refrain
> from interchanging data because 1980s era software isn't Unicode aware?
Devanagari is an established writin
On 2019-01-14, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
> 𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑣𝑒𝑎𝑢 seems a bit 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠é nowadays, as well.
>
> (Had to use mark-up for that “span” of a single letter in order to
> indicate the proper letter form. But the plain-text display looks crazy
> with that HTML jive in it.)
Indeed. But
_Art nouve
On 2019-01-13, Marcel Schneider via Unicode wrote:
> As far as the information goes that was running until now on this List,
> Mathematicians are both using TeX and liking the Unicode math alphabets.
As Khaled has said, if they use them, it's because some software
designer has decided to use them
Martin J. Dürst wrote,
> I'd say it should be conservative. As the meaning of that word
> (similar to others such as progressive and regressive) may be
> interpreted in various way, here's what I mean by that.
>
> It should not take up and extend every little fad at the blink of an
> eye. It sh
"Looking back at the history of computing, a large chunk of the
underlying technology has hit stability. ARM chips, x86 chips, Unix,
and Windows have all been around since 1985 or before, roughly 35
years ago and 35 years since the first programmed computer. They
aren't wildly changing."
I would
> But even most adults won't know the rules for what to italicize that
> have been brought up in this thread. Even if they have read books that
> use italic and bold in ways that have been brought up in this thread,
> most readers won't be able to tell you what the rules are. That's left
> to c
Marcel Schneider wrote,
> There is a crazy typeface out there, misleadingly called 'Courier New',
> as if the foundry didn’t anticipate that at some point it would be better
> called "Courier Obsolete". ...
𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑣𝑒𝑎𝑢 seems a bit 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠é nowadays, as well.
(Had to use mark-up for that “span” o
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 7:03 PM Martin J. Dürst via Unicode
wrote:
> No, the casing idea isn't actually a dumb one. As Asmus has shown, one
> of the best ways to understand what Unicode does with respect to text
> variants is that style works on spans of characters (words,...), and is
> rich text,
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 8:26 PM James Kass via Unicode
wrote:
> It's subjective, really. It depends on how one views plain-text and
> one's expectations for its future. Should plain-text be progressive,
> regressive, or stagnant? Because those are really the only choices.
> And opinions differ.
On 2019/01/14 01:46, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
> On 2019-01-12, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 10:57:26 + (GMT)
>> And what happens when you capitalise a word for emphasis or to begin a
>> sentence? Is it no longer the same word?
>
> Indeed. As has be
Julian Bradfield replied,
>> Sounds like you didn't try it. VS characters are default ignorable.
>
> By software that has a full understanding of Unicode. There is a very
> large world out there of software that was written before Unicode was
> dreamed of, let alone popular.
यदि आप किसी रोटरी
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 04:52:25PM +, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
> On 2019-01-12, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
> > This is an italicized word:
> > 𝑘𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑦
> > ... where the "geek" hacker used Latin italics letters from the math
> > alphanumeric range as though they were Latin i
On 13/01/2019 17:52, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
On 2019-01-12, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
This is a math formula:
a + b = b + a
... where the estimable "mathematician" used Latin letters from ASCII as
though they were math alphanumerics variables.
Yup, and it's immediately underst
On 2019-01-12, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
> This is a math formula:
> a + b = b + a
> ... where the estimable "mathematician" used Latin letters from ASCII as
> though they were math alphanumerics variables.
Yup, and it's immediately understandable by anyone reading on any
computer that under
On 2019-01-12, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 10:57:26 + (GMT)
> Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
>
>> It's also fundamentally misguided. When I _italicize_ a word, I am
>> writing a word composed of (plain old) letters, and then styling the
>> word; I am not c
On 2019-01-12, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
> Sounds like you didn't try it. VS characters are default ignorable.
By software that has a full understanding of Unicode. There is a very
large world out there of software that was written before Unicode was
dreamed of, let alone popular.
> aprico
On 2019/01/13 03:50, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
> To reiterate, if you effectively require a span (even if you could simulate
> that
> differently) you are in the realm or rich text. The one big exception to that
> is
> bidi, because it is utterly impossible to do bidi text without text ra
On 2019/01/13 13:24, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
>
> Mark E. Shoulson wrote,
>
> > This discussion has been very interesting, really. I've heard what I
> > thought were very good points and relevant arguments from both/all
> > sides, and I confess to not being sure which I actually prefer.
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