Hello,
2003-11-09T21:41:25Z Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 19:30 +0100 2003-11-09, Philippe Verdy wrote:
So my question is, once again: would a font that would display pointed Latin
glyphs from Tifinagh script code points really break the Unicode model?
Yes, Philippe. It is the
At 17:36 +0300 2003-11-10, Alexander Savenkov wrote:
The Wrong Thing To Do can be seen everywhere in the newspapers when
the names and some other words originally written in Cyrillic and
other scripts are letter-by-letter (mapped?) transliterated to the
resulting script.
That's transliteration,
At 06:36 AM 11/10/2003, Alexander Savenkov wrote:
Yes, Philippe. It is the same thing as mapping Cyrillic to ASCII
letters. It is a hack. It is to be avoided. It is the Wrong Thing To
Do.
I'm not sure I'm not taking your words out of the context, Michael.
The Wrong Thing To Do can be seen
From: Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 17:36 +0300 2003-11-10, Alexander Savenkov wrote:
The Wrong Thing To Do can be seen everywhere in the newspapers when
the names and some other words originally written in Cyrillic and
other scripts are letter-by-letter (mapped?) transliterated to the
From: John Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 06:36 AM 11/10/2003, Alexander Savenkov wrote:
Yes, Philippe. It is the same thing as mapping Cyrillic to ASCII
letters. It is a hack. It is to be avoided. It is the Wrong Thing To
Do.
I'm not sure I'm not taking your words out of the context,
At 02:22 PM 11/10/2003, Philippe Verdy wrote:
The the case of Berber this is not true: it is the same language written
with 2 scripts (actually 3 as Arabic is also used). The mapping is not perfect
for now, but there are works to correct this and adopt a single convention in
each script (but with
I am not going to argue with you about Tifinagh, Philippe.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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