Re: Unicode 3.2: BETA files updated

From: David Hopwood (david.hopwood@zetnet.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 01:29:24 EST


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Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> And StandardizedVariants.html has been updated again, with more
> of the missing glyphs provided.

I can't see any difference between plain U+2278 (either in the draft
code chart or StandardizedVariants.html) and U+2278 with VS1.
Is plain U+2278 supposed to have an oblique stroke?

Same for U+2279.

For U+2A9D, the tilde-like part of the glyph is reversed left-to-right
relative to what it should be (compare U+2272 and U+2273, and look at
the code chart for plain U+2A9D). This is more important than it sounds!

Less importantly, U+2268 and U+2269 with VS1 should use the same style
of glyph (i.e. opening angle) for the less than/greater than sign, as
the other characters.

The Mongolian descriptions say "second form", "third form", and "fourth form".
Unless these are already defined somewhere, I suggest "variation one",
"variation two", and "variation three" instead.

Is "variant" or "variation" the preferred term? If "variant" is preferred,
then why "VARIATION SELECTOR ONE", etc.? If not, why "StandardizedVariants"?

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