Re: on proposed new Arab script characters for African lanugages (n3882)

2011-08-15 Thread mmarx
Ken, you do not answer my mails concerning marks called by the local communities "damma" and looking exactly like a damma are encoded a second time as arrowhead. It is as if some letters were encoded a second time accompanied by a nastaliq rendering because Pakistani have a "clear preference" for

Re: on proposed new Arab script characters for African lanugages (n3882)

2011-08-15 Thread mmarx
> At this point, regarding the dammas in question, it is a matter > ... of providing appropriate documentation of equivalence > (or non-equivalence) in use and explaining when one might want > to use one variant or another in text. > --Ken n3882> This character should be considered a variant of

Re: on proposed new Arab script characters for African lanugages (n3882)

2011-08-15 Thread Philippe Verdy
2011/8/13 Ken Whistler : > If a proposed character (or script or collection of symbols) is marked > in yellow or green in that table, there is still a chance to provide > feedback > and potentially influence an encoding decision. But once a proposed > character reaches ISO Stage 6 in that table (si

Re: on proposed new Arab script characters for African lanugages (n3882)

2011-08-15 Thread mmarx
> At this point, regarding the dammas in question, it is a matter > instead of providing appropriate documentation of equivalence > (or non-equivalence) in use and explaining when one might want > to use one variant or another in text. > --Ken Have I not shown clearly that there is not a normal

Re: on proposed new Arab script characters for African lanugages (n3882)

2011-08-13 Thread Arno Schmitt
Ken Whistler> ... The "Guinean Ken Whistler> damma with dot" is encoded as: Ken Whistler> U+08FD ARABIC RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE WITH DOT Ken Whistler> Importantly, however, the issue is moot at this point. These decisions were Ken Whistler> taken some time ago, and the technical ballots have passe

Re: on proposed new Arab script characters for African lanugages (n3882)

2011-08-12 Thread Ken Whistler
On 8/12/2011 3:19 PM, Lorna Priest wrote: Our original proposal had these unified, but for various reasons we were asked to disunify them. Lorna Original Message Subject: on proposed new Arab script characters for African lanugages (n3882) From: mmarx To: unicode

Re: on proposed new Arab script characters for African lanugages (n3882)

2011-08-12 Thread Lorna Priest
Our original proposal had these unified, but for various reasons we were asked to disunify them. Lorna Original Message Subject: on proposed new Arab script characters for African lanugages (n3882) From: mmarx To: unicode@unicode.org Date: 8/12/2011 11:21 AM I want to