Re: A neat description of encoding characters

Grrr… It’s an okayish analog for binary numbers, but not really relevant to character encoding. Encoded characters are just assigned with integers, which could in turn be represented in any base. The binary nature of computers’ way of storing numbers does not have much to do with how character

Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

> On Oct 9, 2019, at 00:04, Cibu wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:05 PM 梁海 Liang Hai > wrote: > >> Prior to Unicode 5.2, the encoding of the cluster [glyph] (<> subscript RRA>> /ntʌ/) was not clearly defined. … > > You mean 5.1, right? The encoding has been

Re: Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

[Putting the public mailing list back to the recipient list.] Cibu, Thanks for your L2/19-348 (Response to L2/19-345). My comments: > I am curious to know the reference for the phonetic analysis described in > section ​A

Alternative encodings for Malayalam “nta”

Folks, (Microsoft Peter and Andrew, search for “Windows” in the document.) (Asmus, in the document there’s a section 5, ICANN RZ-LGR situation—let me know if there’s some news.) This is a pretty straightforward document about the notoriously problematic encoding of Malayalam . I always wanted

Re: What is the time frame for USE shapers to provide support for CV+C ?

> (1) When can we anticipate that the USE spec will be updated to provide > support for subjoined consonants below vowels (as required for TAI THAM) ? • The exact scope is actually about allowing conjoined consonant forms (either encoded with a stacker, or encoded atomically?) after vowel

Re: USE Indic Syllabic Category

>>> once the USE acknowledges that subjoined consonants may follow >>> vowels >> >> I expect to update the USE spec to address this soon. > > That seems welcome news. I still don't know what the problem with > supporting them has been. USE wasn’t designed to allow such a syllable structure.

Re: NNBSP

[Just a quick note to everyone that, I’ve just subscribed to this public list, and will look into this ongoing Mongolian-related discussion once I’ve mentally recovered from this week’s UTC stress. :)] Best, 梁海 Liang Hai https://lianghai.github.io > On Jan 17, 2019, at 11:06, Asmus Freytag via