Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-25 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/25/2015 12:07 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:54:29 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wrote: Richard Wordingham wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wrote: Looking at the document http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf that

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-25 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:54:29 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wrote: > Richard Wordingham wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) > William_J_G Overington wrote: > > >> Looking at the document > >> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf > >> that has been mentioned, the four

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-25 Thread William_J_G Overington
Richard Wordingham wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wrote: >> Looking at the document >> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf >> that has been mentioned, the four bracket characters are therein described >> as follows. >> 4X1F O LEFT BRACKET, REVER

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-24 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:00:32 +0100 (BST) William_J_G Overington wrote: > Looking at the document > http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf > that has been mentioned, the four bracket characters are therein > described as follows. > 4X1F O LEFT BRACKET, REVERSE SOLIDUS TOP CORNER > 4X20 C RIGH

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-24 Thread William_J_G Overington
Looking at the document http://www.unicode.org/L2/L1999/99159.pdf that has been mentioned, the four bracket characters are therein described as follows. 4X1F O LEFT BRACKET, REVERSE SOLIDUS TOP CORNER 4X20 C RIGHT BRACKET, REVERSE SOLIDUS BOTTOM CORNER 4X21 O LEFT BRACKET, SOLIDUS BOTTOM CORNER 4X

Aw: Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-24 Thread Jörg Knappen
rg Betreff: Re: Square Brackets with Tick On 2015-08-22, Nigel Small wrote: > 298D; 2990; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER > 298E; 298F; c # RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER > 298F; 298E; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER > 2990; 298D; c

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-23 Thread Nigel Small
Thanks to everyone for your responses so far. In terms of my comment on which brackets make intuitive pairs, I should perhaps have explained my thought process more clearly. If one is to consider the possible origins of these symbols, one likely idea is that they could be used to symbolise a bracke

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 8/22/2015 2:47 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: But codepoints are normally orderly until they enter the ISO approval process. Thereafter, disorder creeps in, and becomes ever more likely as blocks fill up Haha, good one. . The conce

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 10:32:45 -0700 "Asmus Freytag (t)" wrote: > On 8/22/2015 9:35 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: >> There is no inherent meaning to the >> order of codepoints, it's just convenience. > And for that reason, we have property files to explicitly give the > properties rather than askin

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 8/22/2015 9:35 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: There is no inherent meaning to the order of codepoints, it's just convenience. And for that reason, we have property files to explicitly give the properties rather than asking the user to "glean"

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2015-08-22, Nigel Small wrote: > 298D; 2990; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER > 298E; 298F; c # RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER > 298F; 298E; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER > 2990; 298D; c # RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER > with

Re: Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Nigel Small > Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 17:08:48 +0100 > > I am looking for clarification on an aspect of Unicode bracket pairing, > specifically in relation to the following four characters: > > 298D; 2990; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER > 298E; 298F; c # RIGHT SQUARE BRAC

Square Brackets with Tick

2015-08-22 Thread Nigel Small
Hi all I am looking for clarification on an aspect of Unicode bracket pairing, specifically in relation to the following four characters: 298D; 2990; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN TOP CORNER 298E; 298F; c # RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET WITH TICK IN BOTTOM CORNER 298F; 298E; o # LEFT SQUARE BRACKET