Re: per-character "stories" in a database (derives from Re: geometric shapes)

2003-03-15 Thread William Overington
Michael Everson wrote as follows. quote Having said that, you could probably commission someone like me to provide such a list. end quote I read that late last night and I realized that that had not occurred to me. I had a long, quiet, late night think. Yes, I had been thinking that I needed t

Re: per-character "stories" in a database (derives from Re: geometric shapes)

2003-03-14 Thread John Hudson
At 08:08 AM 3/14/2003, William Overington wrote: I find it strange that the Unicode Standard does not codify the ligatures which can be produced with the languages of the Indian subcontinent at display time using specific sequences of regular Unicode characters so that someone skilled in the art o

Re: per-character "stories" in a database (derives from Re: geometric shapes)

2003-03-14 Thread William Overington
Markus Scherer wrote as follows. quote It has been suggested many times to build a database (list, document, XML, ...) where each designated/assigned code point and each character gets its "story": Comments on the glyphs, from what codepage it was inherited, usage comments and examples, alternate