On 30/06/2004 16:35, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
the versions in the main Greek and
Coptic block (or has it been officially renamed just Greek?)
No, the block name won't be changed, in part because changing
block names is another destabilization in the standard that
really serves nobody well,
On 30/06/2004 17:49, John Cowan wrote:
Peter Kirk scripsit:
Since the characters are in fact exactly equivalent, you can use
whichever you wish, as long as you are aware that some processes may
change one to the other. They should be rendered identically.
True. But the original
At 01:21 AM 7/1/2004, Peter Kirk wrote:
On 30/06/2004 16:35, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
the versions in the main Greek and Coptic block (or has it been
officially renamed just Greek?)
No, the block name won't be changed, in part because changing
block names is another destabilization in the
John Cowan wrote:
Michael Everson scripsit:
At 14:11 -0400 2004-06-30, John Cowan wrote:
But the X WITH ACUTE characters there are exactly equivalent to the
X WITH TONOS characters in the main Greek block, and the ones in the
main Greek block are in fact preferred.
How can you tell they are
Peter Kirk wrote:
On 30/06/2004 11:18, busmanus wrote:
Peter Kirk wrote:
If you prefer to use precomposed characters
I need to use them at the moment, because my word
processor does not support the trickier aspects
of rendering combined glyphs (e.g. making use of
the corner points, etc.). I can't
At 03:31 PM 7/1/2004, busmanus wrote:
Can you give a link to these normalization rules?
Just check the unicode home page.
A./
On 29/06/2004 16:07, busmanus wrote:
I have a (hopefully) short question about polytonic Greek support.
Does anyone know what the idea was behind encoding Greek vowel+acute
combinations (without apirates, etc.) twice: first in the Basic
Greek section as vowel+tonos, for the second time in the
Peter Kirk wrote:
If you prefer to use precomposed characters
I need to use them at the moment, because my word
processor does not support the trickier aspects
of rendering combined glyphs (e.g. making use of
the corner points, etc.). I can't even make it
use a precomposed ligature for a
Peter Kirk scripsit:
If you prefer to use precomposed characters (rather than separate
diacritics as Ken suggested) or need to do so to meet W3C
recommendations, you should use the ones in the Extended Greek section,
which allow for a distinction between acute and grave accents which is
At 14:11 -0400 2004-06-30, John Cowan wrote:
But the X WITH ACUTE characters there are exactly equivalent to the
X WITH TONOS characters in the main Greek block, and the ones in the
main Greek block are in fact preferred.
How can you tell they are preferred, John?
--
Michael Everson * * Everson
Michael Everson scripsit:
At 14:11 -0400 2004-06-30, John Cowan wrote:
But the X WITH ACUTE characters there are exactly equivalent to the
X WITH TONOS characters in the main Greek block, and the ones in the
main Greek block are in fact preferred.
How can you tell they are preferred,
On 30/06/2004 11:11, John Cowan wrote:
Peter Kirk scripsit:
If you prefer to use precomposed characters (rather than separate
diacritics as Ken suggested) or need to do so to meet W3C
recommendations, you should use the ones in the Extended Greek section,
which allow for a distinction
On 30/06/2004 11:18, busmanus wrote:
Peter Kirk wrote:
If you prefer to use precomposed characters
I need to use them at the moment, because my word
processor does not support the trickier aspects
of rendering combined glyphs (e.g. making use of
the corner points, etc.). I can't even make it
use
See also the FAQ on Greek:
http://www.unicode.org/faq/greek.html
the versions in the main Greek and
Coptic block (or has it been officially renamed just Greek?)
No, the block name won't be changed, in part because changing
block names is another destabilization in the standard that
really serves nobody well, but mostly because the existing
14 Coptic letters
Peter Kirk scripsit:
Since the characters are in fact exactly equivalent, you can use
whichever you wish, as long as you are aware that some processes may
change one to the other. They should be rendered identically.
True. But the original question was Which are preferred, and there
is a
I have a (hopefully) short question about polytonic Greek support.
Does anyone know what the idea was behind encoding Greek vowel+acute
combinations (without apirates, etc.) twice: first in the Basic
Greek section as vowel+tonos, for the second time in the Extended
Greek section as
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