Re: A sketch with the best-known Swiss tongue twister

2018-03-10 Thread philip chastney via Unicode
it is not clear whether you are quoting from some agreed standard, quoting from some other authority, or constructing a classification of your own whatever the classification, it should be descriptive, and it is best not to be too pedantic, because practice can vary from region to region, from

Re: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?

2018-01-24 Thread philip chastney via Unicode
OK, he's no technocrat, but try googling "tony blair kazakhstan" and in case anybody's wondering what Nazarbayev got for his five million pounds, for a partial explanation, check out https://www.rt.com/uk/340035-blair-strike-kazakhstan-massacre/ it is not known if Blair profferred any

Re: superscripts & subscripts for science/mathematics?

2018-01-23 Thread philip chastney via Unicode
. . . and do Russians still do mathematics? I guess not, since there is no Cyrillic counterpart to the AMS extensions also, chemists sometimes like to put a superscript over a subscript will that still have to be done using rich text? or maybe we need another extension . . . ? /phil

Re: less-than or equal to with dot in the less-than part?

2016-08-11 Thread philip chastney
there is another issue with these symbols -- they appear among the mathematical symbols but, in the reference given, they are used as delimiters I know of no other application for these symbols other than as delimiters -- are they used as mathematical operators? and how, in general, would

Re: Suggestion for new dingbats/symbols

2013-05-27 Thread philip chastney
From: David Starner prosfil...@gmail.com To: Andreas Stötzner a...@signographie.de Cc: “unicode“ Discussion unicode@unicode.org Sent: Sunday, 26 May 2013, 22:15 Subject: Re: Suggestion for new dingbats/symbols On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Andreas Stötzner a...@signographie.de wrote:

Re: wrongly identified geometric shape

2013-01-13 Thread philip chastney
From: Michel Suignard mic...@suignard.com To: philip chastney philip_chast...@yahoo.com Cc: unicode List unicode@unicode.org Sent: Monday, 17 December 2012, 23:37 Subject: RE: wrongly identified geometric shape I spent some times analyzing your documents and I can see you are trying

Re: wrongly identified geometric shape

2012-12-16 Thread philip chastney
On 2012/Dec/08 02:34, Michel Suignard wrote: From:philip chastney anybody converting a document currently using Wingding fonts to one using Unicode values and Unicode fonts instead, using the transliteration proposed in N 4384, will find their squares somewhat diminished in size (in this

Re: Missing geometric shapes

2012-11-09 Thread philip chastney
From:William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com To: unicode@unicode.org Cc: wjgo_10...@btinternet.com Sent: Friday, 9 November 2012, 11:29 Subject: Re: Missing geometric shapes Should the original NO RATING be split into two different items, such as

Re: Variant glyphs for mathematical symbols

2012-05-07 Thread philip chastney
From: Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com To: Unicode Mailing List unicode@unicode.org Sent: Monday, 7 May 2012, 1:36 Subject: Variant glyphs for mathematical symbols First question: When the integral symbols were encoded in Unicode there was discussion of

Re: Variant glyphs for mathematical symbols

2012-05-07 Thread philip chastney
From: Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com To: Unicode Mailing List unicode@unicode.org Sent: Monday, 7 May 2012, 1:36 Subject: Variant glyphs for mathematical symbols Second question: When the mathematical relations were encoded there were variants that were

davidadubey

2012-01-13 Thread philip chastney
Dear Sir or Madam: http://ccatunisie.com/bhrxdfhj.php?fyhCID=48 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:19:47 _ There, said she, just by the side of the little fir-tree. (c) Llerifer wildwiresin

N 4115 - slightly small is an unecessary concept

2012-01-09 Thread philip chastney
A little work on the size tables given on page 3 of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N 4115, Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols, shows that the two tables used in N4115 (for diamonds and squares) are near enough identical to each other, and to the range of sizes illustrated in Table 2.5 in UTR 25

Re: Upside Down Fu character

2012-01-04 Thread philip chastney
From: Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com To: unicode Unicode Discussion unicode@unicode.org Sent: Tuesday, 3 January 2012, 18:46 Subject: Re: Upside Down Fu character On 3 Jan 2012, at 18:28, Rick McGowan wrote: I would say to use higher level mark-up or

Fw: Upside Down Fu character

2012-01-04 Thread philip chastney
Corrected Version:: - Forwarded Message - From: philip chastney philip_chast...@yahoo.com To: Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com; unicode Unicode Discussion unicode@unicode.org Sent: Wednesday, 4 January 2012, 9:57 Subject: Re: Upside Down Fu character

MODIFIER LETTER ___ H WITH STROKE

2011-10-17 Thread philip chastney
the SIL PUA (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=PUA_home) is slowly being absorbed into TUS one character yet to be added is the U+F1BC MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H WITH STROKE the chart for Latin Extended-D (http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.1.0/charts/blocks/UA720.pdf) has

Re: Draft Proposal to encode the English Phonotypic Alphabet

2010-07-08 Thread philip chastney
FWIW, if I were you, I'd forget all about CLDR for one thing, there is no evidence that the originators of EPA ever considered title-casing, and I think it would be wrong of us to retro-fit mechanisms which were not part of the original as Doug Ewell remarked in another thread, character names