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From: "Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 18:36
Subject: Re: LATIN LETTER N WITH DIAERESIS?
> On 2003.01.28, 1
John Cowan noted:
> > So formal canonical decompositions are almost entirely
> > confined to separable, accent-like diacritics (acute,
> > grave, diaeresis, and so on). The only significant exceptions are
> > the cedilla and ogonek, which attach smoothly to letter
> > bottoms without otherwise dis
Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> Long ago
> it was decided that it would not be a good idea to extend
> formal character decomposition to such base letterform shape
> changes or bars across letters. (Note that Latin characters
> with bars: barred-b, barred-d, barred-i, barred-u, barred-l,
> and the like
Kenneth Whistler scripsit:
> So formal canonical decompositions are almost entirely
> confined to separable, accent-like diacritics (acute,
> grave, diaeresis, and so on). The only significant exceptions are
> the cedilla and ogonek, which attach smoothly to letter
> bottoms without otherwise dist
António MARTINS-Tuválkin (with no diaeresis !) asked:
> Anyway, I noted once more that many cyrillic letters I'd consider as
> "base letter + diacritical" composites are not decomposable according to
> Unicode. I planned to dwell deeper into this, but is there a short
> answer for it?
The short a
On 2003.01.28, 16:41, Mark Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a chart at
> http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/composition_chart.html that makes it
> pretty easy to find all those odd precomposed characters.
A superb resource, thank you! I enjoyed especially to pan it about using
Opera's zoom
F7C7: A palatalised y is pretty unlikely (it's already palatal). Sure it's
not a palatalised v?
- Peter
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Lukas Pietsch wrote:
Your F725 Unknown-2, to me, looks like a German SCRIPT CAPITAL S,
(compare with U+2112;SCRIPT CAPITAL L). Yes, we were taught to write an
S like this in school. Perhaps it's used somewhere in mathematics?
Looks to me like the proofreader's marginal deletion mark. F7AA might
Asmus Freytag had written:
I have updated my document at http://www.unicode.org/~asmus/what_is_this_character.pdf
...
I welcome [...] any help anyone could provide in identifying the characters
or in locating places they are used.
Lukas Pietsch wrote:
Your F725 Unknown-2, to me, looks like
Thanks for the many replies, I'll comment on a few of them:
At 05:46 PM 2/2/03 +0100, Lukas Pietsch wrote:
Your F725 Unknown-2, to me, looks like a German SCRIPT CAPITAL S,
(compare with U+2112;SCRIPT CAPITAL L). Yes, we were taught to write an
S like this in school. Perhaps it's used somewhere
> All characters are now mapped to Unicoe characters or character
sequences
> where I felt that this was possible. If there are obvioous errors,
please
> point them out and I'll update the listing.
>
> However, there are some unidentified characters, or ones that could be
> considered missing from
Asmus Freytag scripsit:
> However, there are some unidentified characters, or ones that could be
> considered missing from Unicode 4.0, or which have mappings that for one
> or the other reason could be considered not ideal. These have been
> highlighted. I welcome suggestions for additions to
I have updated my document at
http://www.unicode.org/~asmus/what_is_this_character.pdf with much of the
information supplied by people on this list and some others.
All characters are now mapped to Unicoe characters or character sequences
where I felt that this was possible. If there are obvio
At 11:05 AM 1/28/03 -0800, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
Curtis asked:
> I have a distinct memory of a precomposed Latin letter n with diaeresis
> (as in the band Spinal Tap), but now I can't find it. It doesn't matter
> to me whether it exists or not, other than helping me to und
Curtis asked:
> I have a distinct memory of a precomposed Latin letter n with diaeresis
> (as in the band Spinal Tap), but now I can't find it. It doesn't matter
> to me whether it exists or not, other than helping me to understand my
> memory. Am I missing it? Did it
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 08:14
Subject: LATIN LETTER N WITH DIAERESIS?
> I have a distinct memory of a precomposed Latin letter n with diaeresis
> (as in the band Spinal Tap), but now I can't find it. It doesn't matter
&
I have a distinct memory of a precomposed Latin letter n with diaeresis
(as in the band Spinal Tap), but now I can't find it. It doesn't matter
to me whether it exists or not, other than helping me to understand my
memory. Am I missing it? Did it exist once and is now gone? Or am I
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