Re: Questions on ZWNBS - for line initial holam plus alef

2003-08-14 Thread Thomas M. Widmann
Peter Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 08/08/2003 08:54, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > > ... Could there be another codepoint assigned that has > > > >these properties: > > > >20CF;ZERO WIDTH SYMBOL;Sk;0;ON; 0020N; > > [...] > But I'm not sure that ZERO WIDTH SYMBOL is the best name, unl

Re: Vurtual Keyboard!

2003-07-24 Thread Thomas M. Widmann
"Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 24/07/2003 04:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > How to map the code values of the key boards with the code > > > values for the alphabet given with different Code pages of any > > > scrip

Re: I am not in India II

2003-07-18 Thread Thomas M. Widmann
Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Your message has encountered delivery problems > >to the following recipient(s): > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Delivery failed > > 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.co.in account > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [-5] - mta104.mail.in.yahoo.co

Re: Aramaic, Samaritan, Phoenician

2003-07-16 Thread Thomas M. Widmann
Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 20:17 +0100 2003-07-15, Thomas M. Widmann wrote: > > > > But if that criterion is applied, surely Georgian Xucuri/Khutsuri > > should be separated from Georgian Mxedruli/Mkhedruli: Although > > there roughly is a

Re: Aramaic, Samaritan, Phoenician

2003-07-15 Thread Thomas M. Widmann
John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like someone whose native script is Hebrew to comment on mutual > intelligibility, which was the main criterion for separating > Glagolitic from Cyrillic. But if that criterion is applied, surely Georgian Xucuri/Khutsuri should be separated from Georgi

Re: IPA Null Consonant

2003-05-27 Thread Thomas M. Widmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >Yes, I think you're right that an annotation is best -- but only > > >if EMPTY SET is indeed the right character. I'm increasingly of > > >the opinion that a different character might be needed. > > > > I would disagree. > > As would I. Oh dear, if you both disag

Re: ogonek vs. retroflex hook

2003-04-02 Thread Thomas M. Widmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > John Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/02/2003 10:32:51 AM: > > > I would replace the normal termination of the main vertical stem > > of each letter, and attach the retroflex hook as a straight > > continuation of this stem (the i with retroflex hook would end up

Re: In defense of Plane 14 language tags (long)

2002-11-04 Thread Thomas M. Widmann
"Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, so my "mini-essay" against deprecating the Plan 14 language tags > didn't turn out quite so "mini" after all. It was very interesting. > [...] > Other scripts besides Han can benefit from plain-text language tagging > as well. A common Latin-script