Vendor-assigned emoji (was: Encoding italic)

2019-02-11 Thread James Kass via Unicode
On 2019-01-24 Andrew West wrote, > The ESC and UTC do an appallingly bad job at regulating emoji, and I > would like to see the Emoji Subcommittee disbanded, and decisions on > new emoji taken away from the UTC, and handed over to a consortium or > committee of vendors who would be given a

Re: Encoding italic

2019-02-11 Thread James Kass via Unicode
Philippe Verdy wrote, >>> case mappings, >> >> Adjust them as needed. > > Not so easy: case mappings cannot be fixed. They are stabilized in Unicode. > You would need special casing rules under a specific "locale" for maths. In BabelPad, I can select a string of text and convert it to math

Re: Encoding colour (from Re: Encoding italic)

2019-02-11 Thread Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode
On 2/11/19 5:46 PM, Kent Karlsson via Unicode wrote: Continuing too look deep into the crystal ball, doing some more hand swirls... ... ... The scheme quoted (far) below (from wjgo_10009), or anything like it, will NEVER be part of Unicode! Not in Unicode, but I have to say I'm intrigued by

Re: Encoding italic

2019-02-11 Thread James Kass via Unicode
On 2019-02-11 6:42 PM, Kent Karlsson wrote: > Using a VS to get italics, or anything like that approach, will > NEVER be a part of Unicode! Maybe the crystal ball is jammed.  This can happen, especially on the older models which use vacuum tubes. Wanting a second opinion, I asked the magic

Re: Encoding italic

2019-02-11 Thread Kent Karlsson via Unicode
Den 2019-02-11 10:55, skrev "wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode" : > Doug Ewell wrote: > >> Š, just as next to nobody is using the proposed VS14 mechanism Š > > Well, of course not because use of VS14 in a plain text document to > record a request for an italic glyph version is not at the

Re: Encoding italic

2019-02-11 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
Doug Ewell wrote: …, just as next to nobody is using the proposed VS14 mechanism … Well, of course not because use of VS14 in a plain text document to record a request for an italic glyph version is not at the present time an official part of Unicode. The next scheduled Unicode Technical

Re: Encoding colour (from Re: Encoding italic)

2019-02-11 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Le dim. 10 févr. 2019 à 02:33, wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> a écrit : > Previously I wrote: > > > A stateful method, though which might be useful for plain text streams > > in some applications, would be to encode as characters some of the > > glyphs for indicating

Re: Encoding italic

2019-02-11 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Le dim. 10 févr. 2019 à 16:42, James Kass via Unicode a écrit : > > Philippe Verdy wrote, > > >> ...[one font file having both italic and roman]... > > The only case where it happens in real fonts is for the mapping of > > Mathematical Symbols which have a distinct encoding for some > >