Re: Unicode characters unification

2018-05-29 Thread Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode
On 5/29/2018 1:08 AM, Richard Wordingham wrote: On Mon, 28 May 2018 21:40:49 -0700 Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: But such exceptions prove the rule, which leads back to where we started: the default position is that Unicode encodes a character identity that is not the same as encoding the

Re: Unicode characters unification

2018-05-29 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Mon, 28 May 2018 21:40:49 -0700 Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: > But such exceptions prove the rule, which leads back to where we > started: the default position is that Unicode encodes a character > identity that is not the same as encoding the concept that said > character is used to

Re: Unicode characters unification

2018-05-28 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
In the discussion leading up to this it has been implied that Unicode encodes / should encode concepts or pure shape. And there's been some confusion as to were concerns about sorting or legacy encodings fit in. Time to step back a bit: Primarily the Unicode Standard encodes by character

Re: Unicode characters unification

2018-05-28 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Mon, 28 May 2018 21:14:58 +0200 Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote: > > On 28 May 2018, at 21:01, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 28 May 2018 20:19:09 +0200 > > Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote: > > > >> Indistinguishable math styles Latin and Greek uppercase letters >

Re: Unicode characters unification

2018-05-28 Thread Hans Åberg via Unicode
> On 28 May 2018, at 21:38, Richard Wordingham > wrote: > > On Mon, 28 May 2018 21:14:58 +0200 > Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote: > >>> On 28 May 2018, at 21:01, Richard Wordingham via Unicode >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 28 May 2018 20:19:09 +0200 >>> Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote: >>>

Re: Unicode characters unification

2018-05-28 Thread Hans Åberg via Unicode
> On 28 May 2018, at 21:01, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > wrote: > > On Mon, 28 May 2018 20:19:09 +0200 > Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote: > >> Indistinguishable math styles Latin and Greek uppercase letters have >> been added, even though that was not so in for example TeX, and thus >> no

Re: Unicode characters unification

2018-05-28 Thread Hans Åberg via Unicode
> On 28 May 2018, at 19:18, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > wrote: > > On Mon, 28 May 2018 17:54:47 +0200 > Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote: > >>> On 28 May 2018, at 17:00, Richard Wordingham via Unicode >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 28 May 2018 15:30:55 +0200 >>> Hans Åberg via Unicode

Re: Unicode characters unification

2018-05-28 Thread Hans Åberg via Unicode
> On 28 May 2018, at 17:00, Richard Wordingham via Unicode > wrote: > > On Mon, 28 May 2018 15:30:55 +0200 > Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote: > >>> On 28 May 2018, at 15:10, Richard Wordingham via Unicode >>> wrote: >>> >>> On