On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Luke Dashjr <l...@dashjr.org> wrote: > On Saturday, March 14, 2015 9:27:56 PM David Starner wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Luke Dashjr <l...@dashjr.org> wrote: >> > Does Unicode give any relevance to non-visual rendering, or do TTS >> > just need to settle for environmental hints (eg, the user explicitly >> > telling it tonal numbers are in use)? >> >> How do you tell a chemist from the general populace? Ask them to >> pronounce "unionized" (that is, is it "un-ion-ized" or "union-ized")? >> Is 700-9000 pronounced "seven hundred minus nine thousand" or "seven >> oh oh dash nine oh oh oh"? > > These are mere pronunciation/linguistic differences, though. The cases I am > talking about are entirely different meanings/words.
Un-ion-ized and union-ized are two completely different words. Different meanings, different pronunciations, different etymologies. > That is, 100 decimal is "one hundred" with a binary value of 110 0100. > But the same "100" in tonal would be "san" with a binary value of 1 0000 0000. And -6300 is the same thing as a phone number? And as I said, there are a number of characters that look similar in Unicode, and the one found on a keyboard is commonly used for the less common one. Adding new characters doesn't magically add support for them, and even very popular characters suffer from the fact that a keyboard supports about 100 characters easily, with typists learning a handful of necessary multikey characters. There is no reason to assume that anyone would use your new digits even if they were encoded. > And in the other example, one is "B with double lines" vs "bitcoins". And ! is "exclamation point" and "not" and "factorial". Currency symbols are not usually unified with other symbols, and combining overlays are usually discouraged, so LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B + COMBINING DOUBLE VERTICAL STROKE OVERLAY will probably not block the encoding of a bitcoin symbol. Being unifiable with ฿, on the other hand, will. A lack of actual use will as well. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode