Re: Geological symbols

2020-01-13 Thread Oren Watson via Unicode
This is not possible in unicode plaintext as far as I can tell, since Unicode doesn't allow overstriking arbitrary characters over each other the way more advanced layout systems, e.g. LaTeX do. It is however possible to engineer a font to arrange those characters like that by using aggressive kern

Re: MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK PHI in Calibri is wrong.

2019-04-17 Thread Oren Watson via Unicode
ion of the font is used there. > > James > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 5:10 PM Oren Watson via Unicode < > unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > >> Would anyone know where to report this? >> In the widely used Calibri typeface included with MS Office, the glyph >>

MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK PHI in Calibri is wrong.

2019-04-17 Thread Oren Watson via Unicode
Would anyone know where to report this? In the widely used Calibri typeface included with MS Office, the glyph shown for U+1D60 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL GREEK PHI, actually depicts a letter psi, not a phi.

Fwd: Emoji as East Asian Width = Wide

2018-03-05 Thread Oren Watson via Unicode
EAW is used in fixed-width settings to distinguish characters that should take up one space versus two. I would also prefer that all these be considered wide, since otherwise it causes format problems in these settigns. (unfortunately fixed-width appear to be largley ignored by unicode... 🙁) On Su

Invisible characters must be specified to be visible in security-sensitive situations

2018-02-15 Thread Oren Watson via Unicode
https://securelist.com/zero-day-vulnerability-in-telegram/83800/ You could disallow these characters in filenames, but when filename handling is charset-agnostic due to the extended-ascii principle this is impractical. I think a better solution is to specify a visible form of these characters to b

Fwd: Team Emoji

2017-05-20 Thread Oren Watson via Unicode
It's especially bad that they think that it was the Unicode consortium that changed the PISTOL emoji to a water gun. Does no-one at CNN use Android, Samsung or Windows? It's a pistol, specifically a revolver, on all those. On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote: > http://w