Re: Latin Letters Capital and Small Theta

2016-06-16 Thread Marcel Schneider
all who responded in this thread. The challenge as I see it now is to spread the word and motivate persons who are in touch with the Rromani Standard Alphabet user communities, and are thus in a position to write up the proposal for Latin Letters Capital and Small Theta. As of the subsequent font issue, I believe that it will be settled quickly by adding the new code points and duplicating the already existing glyphs of GREEK CAPITAL THETA SYMBOL and GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA. Hopefully, Marcel

Re: Latin Letters Capital and Small Theta

2016-06-13 Thread Philippe Verdy
This is general. characters may initially be encoded with a single case where the demonstrated use for only IPA usage (which is single cased). To get dual cased letters, we need to find examples of use in the orthography of a language where all other letters are dual cased. Well this was tur for

Re: Latin Letters Capital and Small Theta

2016-06-13 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
> such as URLs (domain names) there are restrictions that prevent script-mixing in a single label. That is just a current implementation restriction, based on only using the Script property. Implementations upgraded to use Script_Extensions to test for multiple scripts in a string can handle

Re: Latin Letters Capital and Small Theta

2016-06-13 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le 12/06/2016 02:20, Doug Ewell a écrit : Marcel Schneider wrote: While some characters were retained, others were rejected, among which the Latin Theta pair, but no mention is found of this rejection in the Non-Approval Notices. Lots of characters in proposals are rejected without rising to

Re: Latin Letters Capital and Small Theta

2016-06-12 Thread Asmus Freytag (c)
Just a note: for any living(!) language, it is important that Unicode not mix scripts, but instead disunify characters based on script. The reason for that is that in important implementations, such as URLs (domain names) there are restrictions that prevent

Re: Latin Letters Capital and Small Theta

2016-06-11 Thread Doug Ewell
Marcel Schneider wrote: While some characters were retained, others were rejected, among which the Latin Theta pair, but no mention is found of this rejection in the Non-Approval Notices. Lots of characters in proposals are rejected without rising to the level of explicit disapproval: "Look,

Latin Letters Capital and Small Theta

2016-06-11 Thread Marcel Schneider
People are facing the recurrent idea that the Greek theta used to write the Rromani language in International Standard orthography—as well as a number of other languages—will be or ought to be encoded as a separate casing pair in Unicode. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THETA and LATIN SMALL LETTER THETA