Re: Fw: Latin Script Danda

2019-04-19 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 4/19/2019 6:57 PM, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: I don't know many modern fonts that display 007C as a broken glyph. In fact I haven't seen a broken line pipe glyph since the MS-DOS days. Nowadays we have 00A6 for that.

Re: Fw: Latin Script Danda

2019-04-19 Thread Shriramana Sharma via Unicode
I don't know many modern fonts that display 007C as a broken glyph. In fact I haven't seen a broken line pipe glyph since the MS-DOS days. Nowadays we have 00A6 for that.

Fw: Latin Script Danda

2019-04-19 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:30:32 +0100 From: Richard Wordingham To: Shriramana Sharma Subject: Re: Latin Script Danda On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:33:35 +0530 Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: > We are using the pipe character as it is readily available in

Re: Latin Script Danda

2019-04-19 Thread Shriramana Sharma via Unicode
We are using the pipe character as it is readily available in our favourite Latin script fonts. See for example: https://twitter.com/ShriramanaS/status/793480884116529152 It would be ideal for Sanskrit/Indic text in IAST/ISO to be displayable/printable using any common Latin font which is found

Latin Script Danda

2019-04-18 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
Which character should one use for a danda in the Latin script? I believed normal usage is to use U+0964 DEVANAGARI DANDA, but for some reason its script extension property does not include the Latin script. Richard.

Preformatted superscript in ordinary text, paleography and phonetics using Latin script (was: Re: A sign/abbreviation for "magister" - third question summary)

2018-11-07 Thread Marcel Schneider via Unicode
On 06/11/2018 12:04, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode wrote: On Sat, Oct 27 2018 at 14:10 +0200, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode wrote: Hi! On the over 100 years old postcard https://photos.app.goo.gl/GbwNwYbEQMjZaFgE6 you can see 2 occurences of a symbol which is explicitely explained (in Polish) as

Re: Latin Script

2011-01-27 Thread tulasi
Thanks A./ This list is not a service bureau for providing custom data. But do you know why some Greek letters/symbols (never used by Latin speakers) are now named as Latin by Mark (Unicode, Inc President)? Is this an attempt to re-write history? Why don't you just use from Greek script

Re: Latin Script

2010-12-26 Thread tulasi
name? - Can you email the list of these letters/symbols as well, including names? Thanks, Tulasi -- Appended message -- From: Tulasi tulas...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:25 PM Subject: Re: Latin Script To: Mark Davis ☕ m...@macchiato.com Cc: Unicode Mailing List

Re: Latin Script

2010-07-13 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Tulasi said on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 03:25:01PM -0700,: Can you email the list of Latin letters/symbols that Unicode discovered? Can you also email list of letters/symbols that are not Latin but each has LATIN in its name? Can you email the list of these letters/symbols as well,

Re: Latin Script

2010-07-06 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
There is absolutely no reason for quoting a bunch of prior emails in your reply. Please have the decency to trim your replies. -On [20100706 01:08], Tulasi (tulas...@gmail.com) wrote: http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/unicodeset.jsp?a=\p{script:latin}b=\p{name:/LATIN/} www.unicode.org,

Re: Latin Script

2010-07-06 Thread Philippe Verdy
Isn't that because you forgot the backslapshes before p{...}, when naming properties ? Without those backslashes, the compared sets (specified in parameters a and b of the request both include the letter 'p' and braces, ant it is the names of properties that are compared. This should be:

Re: Latin Script

2010-07-06 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20100706 21:10], Philippe Verdy (verd...@wanadoo.fr) wrote: All of these work for me, there's no proxy error. At least for a period yesterday, when I also did my testing on the URL, there was some reachability issue. I just retested and it works. So I am thinking some reverse proxy upstream

Re: Latin Script

2010-07-05 Thread Tulasi
Script To: Tulasi tulas...@gmail.com Cc: Unicode Mailing List unicode@unicode.org, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com See the following for the (*many*) differences between characters with the Latin script, and those with LATIN in their names. http://unicode.org/cldr

Re: Latin Script

2010-07-03 Thread Tulasi
Jonathan is absolutely right! I did read as well, but looks like quick reading habit lacks efficiency :-') Tulasi From: Jonathan Rosenne j...@qsm.co.il Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 08:44:18 +0300 Subject: RE: Latin Script To: Tulasi tulas...@gmail.com, unicode@unicode.org Did you not read my answer

Re: Latin Script

2010-07-02 Thread Tulasi
It seems I made a minor mistake on classic Latin script According to link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Latin_alphabet J U W are not included in classic Latin script. Tulasi From: Tulasi tulas...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:53:05 -0700 Subject: Re: Latin Script To: vanis

RE: Latin Script

2010-07-02 Thread Jonathan Rosenne
: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Tulasi Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 3:32 AM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Latin Script It seems I made a minor mistake on classic Latin script According to link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-28 Thread Tulasi
/symbols with names please? Tulasi PS: Thanks Doug, especially for posting the links From: Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:09:41 -0600 Subject: Re: Latin Script To: Unicode Mailing List unicode@unicode.org Cc: Tulasi tulas...@gmail.com Tulasi tulasird at gmail dot com wrote

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-28 Thread Mark Davis ☕
See the following for the (*many*) differences between characters with the Latin script, and those with LATIN in their names. http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/unicodeset.jsp?a=\p{script:latin}b=\p{name:/LATIN/} I'd suggest taking a more focused approach to learning about the standard, rather than

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-28 Thread Doug Ewell
Tulasi tulasird at gmail dot com wrote: Looks like Unicode did not create any name for any Latin letter/symbol with LATIN in its name :-') Am I correct? Probably not, if you take into account something like U+2C70 (Ɒ) LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED ALPHA, which was added in Unicode 5.2, or

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-28 Thread Asmus Freytag
of taking up their time in repeating it all in personal answers to you. A./ On 6/28/2010 9:37 PM, Mark Davis ☕ wrote: See the following for the (/many/) differences between characters with the Latin script, and those with LATIN in their names. http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/unicodeset.jsp

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-27 Thread Tulasi
ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-2 - ok to use in between, but part-one part-two are clearly indicated using -1 -2. U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR (which does not contain LATIN) is considered part of the Latin script, while U+271D LATIN CROSS (which does) is considered common to all scripts

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-27 Thread Doug Ewell
Tulasi tulasird at gmail dot com wrote: U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR (which does not contain LATIN) is considered part of the Latin script, while U+271D LATIN CROSS (which does) is considered common to all scripts. Can you post both symbols please, thanks? I can point you to http

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-26 Thread Doug Ewell
and ISO/IEC standards bodies, who can be credited for creating any name for any letter/symbol that has LATIN in it? Stop obsessing over whether any given character name has LATIN in it. It does not matter. If you want to know what characters belong to the Latin script in the Unicode sense, use

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-25 Thread Tulasi
, who can be credited for creating any name for any letter/symbol that has LATIN in it? Tulasi PS: Thanks Doug, the link is pretty useful! From: Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:05:29 -0600 Subject: Re: Latin Script To: Unicode Mailing List unicode@unicode.org Tulasi tulasird

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-20 Thread Tulasi
in corresponding Unicode. Am I correct on above? The link is useful Otto, thanks! And John, my platform is WinXp from Versionsoft :) and I use Firefox. Tulasi From: Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:07:41 -0700 Subject: Re: Latin Script To: Tulasi tulas...@gmail.com Cc: Kenneth

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-20 Thread Doug Ewell
Tulasi tulasird at gmail dot com wrote: Moreover, the code-numbers as well as names for letters/symbols used for ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-2 are also identical in corresponding Unicode. No. See http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/ . -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA |

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-18 Thread Otto Stolz
Hello Tulasi, on 2010-06-18 04:24, you have asked: Or do Unicode ISO/IEC use different number name for same letter/symbol? You might find enlightening the FAQ on “Unicode and ISO 10646” http://www.unicode.org/faq/unicode_iso.html. Best wishes, Otto Stolz

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-17 Thread Tulasi
Thanks Ken! What is equivalent ISO/IEC for U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI (ɸ)? Or do Unicode ISO/IEC use different number name for same letter/symbol? Tulasi From: Kenneth Whistler k...@sybase.com Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Latin Script To: tulas...@gmail.com Cc

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-17 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 6/17/2010 7:24 PM, Tulasi wrote: What is equivalent ISO/IEC ISO/IEC what? There are hundreds of ISO/IEC standards, of which dozens are character encoding standards. for U+0278 LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI (ɸ)? Or do Unicode ISO/IEC use different number name for same letter/symbol?

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-16 Thread Tulasi
, probably created by programmers/coders. Have I guessed correctly A./ ? :) Scholarly community uses names (or phrases) highlighting rationale (basis for the name). Tulasi From: John Dlugosz jdlug...@tradestation.com Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:25:27 -0400 Subject: RE: Latin Script To: vanis

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-16 Thread Kenneth Whistler
languages (with Latin orthographies). Both of those 8-bit character encodings include many punctuation and symbol characters other than just Latin letters, so they aren't really subsets of the Latin script at all. --Ken

RE: Latin Script

2010-06-15 Thread John Dlugosz
Amazingly, I consider Latin Small Letter Phi to be a part of the Latin script. Why?: in my typographic life, I would design it differently from Greek small Letter Phi. The Greek phi needs to work with other Greek letters. The Latin phi needs to work in phonetic notation, which is Latin

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-14 Thread Tulasi
Now, how many letters/symbols in that link are like LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI (ɸ), i.e., not from Latin-script? Also, how do I find the list of letters/symbols that do not have LATIN in names but from Latin-script? Tulasi From: Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:58:56 -0400

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-14 Thread vanisaac
From: Tulasi tulas...@gmail.com Thanks for the input Edward! Yep, I shell explore time-chronology as well. Edward - Close, but not quite. Consider LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI (ɸ). Amazingly, I consider Latin Small Letter Phi to be a part of the Latin script. Why?: in my typographic life, I

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-14 Thread Tulasi
to be classic Latin script. Also see the email by Jonathan Rosenne. If you read Edward's email he highlighted on chronology (of adoption from different scripts). Did true Latin speakers adopt LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI (ɸ) to Latin script? Or was it done very recently after Unicode was created? May I ask

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-09 Thread Tulasi
Mark - http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=\p{sc%3DLatn} I think I have got the answer to my question in above link. Thanks Mark! Any letter/symbol has LATIN as part of its name should be pat of present day Latin-script. Is there any new letter/symbol added to Latin-script

RE: Latin Script

2010-06-07 Thread Jonathan Rosenne
: Sunday, June 06, 2010 11:27 AM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Latin Script How do you define Latin Script?

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-07 Thread vanisaac
From: Tulasi (tulas...@gmail.com) How do you define Latin Script? Do you mean historically or pragmatically? Historically, it is an adaptation of the Ionian Greek (or is it Doric?), via Etruscan, for the purpose of writing Latin, and later extended by the addition of alternate letterforms (J

Re: Latin Script

2010-06-07 Thread Tulasi
Jony - A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z ? You mean ALL CAPS again like UNICODE :) Van - Do you mean historically or pragmatically? Actually something that will include all letters/symbols now considered Latin-script Otto Stolz - Not exactly a definition: What

Latin Script

2010-06-06 Thread Tulasi
How do you define Latin Script?

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-28 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Eric Muller schrieb: Unicode exists to support what people use. Do people use Latin script for Tatar? Evidence indicates that they do. Should Unicode support it, then? Certainly. Does Unicode support it? Yes, Unicode supports the Latin script, with gobs of extensions. So what's

Re[2]: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-27 Thread Alexander Savenkov
is this sentence related to the discussion described in the header? and more likely to follow their local leaders than the linguistic imperialists in Moscow, it is highly likely that at least some of them use the published Latin script even if it is not permitted to have official status. True again. No one

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-27 Thread Peter Kirk
into Latin before publishing. This is true, and proves my point. Cyrillic script is not the official script in Azerbaijan, and may not be used in publications, signs etc. Nevertheless, it is in widespread use. Therefore, Unicode needs to support it. The same applies to the Tatar Latin script

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-27 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
of the Latin script for spelling Tatar language I witnessed was indeed in media sponsored by, or under the responsability of the Tatarstan Government. --. António MARTINS-Tuválkin | ()| [EMAIL

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-27 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
What's all the fuss, then? Unicode exists to support what people use. Do people use Latin script for Tatar? Evidence indicates that they do. Should Unicode support it, then? Certainly. Does Unicode support it? Yes, Unicode supports the Latin script, with gobs of extensions. So what's

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-27 Thread Eric Muller
Mark E. Shoulson wrote: Unicode exists to support what people use. Do people use Latin script for Tatar? Evidence indicates that they do. Should Unicode support it, then? Certainly. Does Unicode support it? Yes, Unicode supports the Latin script, with gobs of extensions. So what's

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-27 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
Eric Muller wrote: Mark E. Shoulson wrote: Unicode exists to support what people use. Do people use Latin script for Tatar? Evidence indicates that they do. Should Unicode support it, then? Certainly. Does Unicode support it? Yes, Unicode supports the Latin script, with gobs of extensions

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-27 Thread Peter Kirk
people use. Do people use Latin script for Tatar? Evidence indicates that they do. Should Unicode support it, then? Certainly. Does Unicode support it? Yes, Unicode supports the Latin script, with gobs of extensions. So what's the problem? Are there any characters in Latin transcription

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-27 Thread Peter Kirk
On 27/07/2004 18:29, Eric Muller wrote: Mark E. Shoulson wrote: Unicode exists to support what people use. Do people use Latin script for Tatar? Evidence indicates that they do. Should Unicode support it, then? Certainly. Does Unicode support it? Yes, Unicode supports the Latin script

Re[2]: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-18 Thread Alexander Savenkov
for this? You don't want to tell everyone on the net about his or her wrong assumptions. There's one sentence in the page you mentioned that gives a good description of this resource: The conversion from Cyrillic to Latin script is planned within years 2001-2011. This is false. 3. The case

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-18 Thread Peter Kirk
about these? There is legal wrangling over wether Tatarstan can make the change back to Latin script official for Tatar as it is used there, but no final decision has been reached and there is probably at least several more years of legal shenanigans before it is reached. You're wrong

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-07-18 Thread Doug Ewell
other places where Tatars live. This alphabet therefore needs to be supported by Unicode. But fortunately this is not a problem as all the characters are already defined. Peter is absolutely right. Whether the Russian government has banned the Latin script for writing Tatar is irrelevant. It has

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-05-12 Thread Doug Ewell
Kenneth Whistler kenw at sybase dot com wrote: And Eki should be notified that the statement on the site about the barred o's is incorrect. They've got an interesting little site there, with lots of information pertaining to both Unicode and 8-bit encodings, but some misinformation as well.

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-05-12 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2004.05.12, 00:08, Eric Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: less-than-perfect but annotated name for U+019F, and from the usage remark African. Can we authoritatively tell them that those two characters are the ones they want? Can we add a Tatar usage remark to both? As easily as we can

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-05-12 Thread Alexander Savenkov
a good description of this resource: The conversion from Cyrillic to Latin script is planned within years 2001-2011. This is false. 3. The case pair n with descender is definitely not encoded, and from my memory of the discussion of ghe with descender, we would want to encode them as separate

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-05-12 Thread Ernest Cline
. There's one sentence in the page you mentioned that gives a good description of this resource: The conversion from Cyrillic to Latin script is planned within years 2001-2011. This is false. 3. The case pair n with descender is definitely not encoded, and from my memory of the discussion of ghe

RE: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-05-12 Thread Peter Constable
2. The case pair for barred o is encoded (U+019F and U+0275), and it seems that their confusion comes from less-than-perfect but annotated name for U+019F, and from the usage remark African. Can we authoritatively tell them that those two characters are the ones they want? IMO, yes. Can we

Re: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-05-12 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Eric Muller wrote: According to www.eki.ee, there is a currently an effort to convert the writing of Tatar from Cyrillic to Latin. Alexander Savenkov said: There's no Latin Tatar script. It's the law. Full stop. Ernest Cline said: They are numerous sites on the web about the change from

Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-05-11 Thread Eric Muller
According to www.eki.ee, there is a currently an effort to convert the writing of Tatar from Cyrillic to Latin. 1. Does somebody have more information about that effort? Eki lists four characters as needed but missing in Unicode (see

Special Casing (Was: Writing Tatar using the Latin script; new characters to encode?

2004-05-11 Thread Carl W. Brown
Eric, 1. Does somebody have more information about that effort? Eki lists four characters as needed but missing in Unicode (see http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?lang=tt+Tatarscript=latin). I had suggested earlier that Tartar be added to the special case rules for dotted and dotless I