Characters Duplicated as Latin (was: Sanskrit nasalized
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To: Richard Wordingham
Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion
2011/8/14 Richard Wordingham :
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 17:25:11 -0700
> tulasi wrote:
>
>>- Why did Unicode Inc copies some letters/symbols from Greek-script
>>
Richard Wordingham wrote:
> U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI is for IPA usage, and, unlike Greek,
> always has an ascender.
For linguistic Greek usage, the two variants are considered
equivalent. This is not the case in Maths where thee two variants are
clearly distinct. That's why (La)TeX preserves
Appreciate it for the info.
Wondering whether there are other (in addition to following) Greek
letters/symbols that were copied and renamed as LATIN?
Thanks,
Tulasi
From: Richard Wordingham
Date: Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:39 PM
Subject: Greek Characters Duplicated as Latin (was: Sanskrit
On 8/15/2011 8:50 AM, Andreas Prilop wrote:
> The Ohm sign should have been encoded as another example of "squared"
> letters and abbreviations. It comes from Asian character sets,
I’d say the ohm sign comes from the MacRoman character set (0xBD).
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDO
15.8.2011 18:50, Andreas Prilop wrote:
Both symbols (micro sign, ohm sign) combine with Latin letters
to form multiples of units: micrometre, megaohm; even microohm.
Therefore I think one might well regard micro sign and ohm sign
as some kind of “pseudo-Latin” letters.
Typographically, yes. An
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> The Ohm sign should have been encoded as another example of "squared"
> letters and abbreviations. It comes from Asian character sets,
I’d say the ohm sign comes from the MacRoman character set (0xBD).
http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MIC
2011/8/15 Jukka K. Korpela :
> 15.8.2011 13:36, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>
>> Don't be surprised then if you see the micro sign on all standard
>> French keyboards of computers (even those sold today). This is the
>> only Greek letter supported there.
>
> I remember that I was surprised at seeing that
15.8.2011 13:36, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Don't be surprised then if you see the micro sign on all standard
French keyboards of computers (even those sold today). This is the
only Greek letter supported there.
I remember that I was surprised at seeing that common Finnish keyboards
world produce
Am Montag, 15. August 2011 um 12:36 schrieb Philippe Verdy:
PV> Don't be surprised then if you see the micro sign on all standard
PV> French keyboards of computers (even those sold today). This is the
PV> only Greek letter supported there.
It is also engraved on all German keyboards (to be input
Philippe Verdy> (and forgetting the support of accented capitals)...
which is time honored French practice
http://j.poitou.free.fr/pro/html/typ/cap-accents.html
2011/8/14 Asmus Freytag :
> Because the micro sign was widely implemented in systems and fonts that do
> not support the full set of Greek characters, I wouldn't be surprised to
> find that there are instances where the design was adjusted to make it "fit"
> better in a Latin environment. If so, th
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:57:50 +0200
Philippe Verdy wrote:
> (But you could argue that an OpenType feature could also allow
> selecting the technical symbols in technical documents, if there's
> support in word processors for selecting such typographic feature;
> this is probably overkill because t
2011/8/14 Richard Wordingham :
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 17:25:11 -0700
> tulasi wrote:
>
>> - Why did Unicode Inc copies some letters/symbols from Greek-script
>> irresponsibly and renamed as Latin-script?
>> - Why din't it (Unicode Inc) use same Greek letters/symbols?
>
> U+00B5 MICRO SIGN i
On 8/14/2011 1:39 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
U+00B5 MICRO SIGN is an ISO-8859-1 character, and was therefore
included as U+00B5. It normally precedes a Latin-script letter, and
therefore it actually makes sense to treat it as a Latin-script
character, and possibly give it a different shape i
On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 17:25:11 -0700
tulasi wrote:
>- Why did Unicode Inc copies some letters/symbols from Greek-script
>irresponsibly and renamed as Latin-script?
>- Why din't it (Unicode Inc) use same Greek letters/symbols?
U+00B5 MICRO SIGN is an ISO-8859-1 character, and was therefo
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