Re: TLG and Beta code

From: Raymond Mercier ([email protected])
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 16:32:24 EDT

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    John,
    I am glad to hear from you. I shall do what I can to get a proposal
    together.

    Raymond

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "John Hudson" <[email protected]>
    To: "Raymond Mercier" <[email protected]>
    Cc: <[email protected]>
    Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 7:20 PM
    Subject: Re: TLG and Beta code

    >
    > At 05:37 AM 8/27/2003, Raymond Mercier wrote:
    >
    > >I know this is common in the TLG, but as you say, they assume it is just
    > >omicron (an assumption repeated in a message just received from them).
    > >But, I am trying to get across that that is wrong: it represents neither
    > >papyri nor Byzantine MSS.
    >
    > ...
    >
    > >So is there not a good reason to treat this as a distinct character, to
    be
    > >assigned to a Unicode codepoint ?
    >
    > Raymond, based on what you have said, I would agree. A variety of visual
    > representations, clearly distinct from the omicron as formed in the same
    > documents, suggests a separate character. Would you be able to write up a
    > proposal to encode such a character, or at least an informational document
    > including illustrations of different forms of the Greek zero, preferably
    in
    > proximity to differently formed omicrons? Nothing is going to happen
    unless
    > the UTC receive such a document, and you sound like the best person to
    > prepare one.
    >
    > John Hudson
    >
    > Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
    > Vancouver, BC [email protected]
    >
    > You need a good operator to make type. If it were a
    > DIY affair the caster would only run for about five
    > minutes before the DIYer burned his butt off.
    > - Jim Rimmer
    >

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "John Hudson" <[email protected]>
    To: "Raymond Mercier" <[email protected]>
    Cc: <[email protected]>
    Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 7:20 PM
    Subject: Re: TLG and Beta code

    >
    > At 05:37 AM 8/27/2003, Raymond Mercier wrote:
    >
    > >I know this is common in the TLG, but as you say, they assume it is just
    > >omicron (an assumption repeated in a message just received from them).
    > >But, I am trying to get across that that is wrong: it represents neither
    > >papyri nor Byzantine MSS.
    >
    > ...
    >
    > >So is there not a good reason to treat this as a distinct character, to
    be
    > >assigned to a Unicode codepoint ?
    >
    > Raymond, based on what you have said, I would agree. A variety of visual
    > representations, clearly distinct from the omicron as formed in the same
    > documents, suggests a separate character. Would you be able to write up a
    > proposal to encode such a character, or at least an informational document
    > including illustrations of different forms of the Greek zero, preferably
    in
    > proximity to differently formed omicrons? Nothing is going to happen
    unless
    > the UTC receive such a document, and you sound like the best person to
    > prepare one.
    >
    > John Hudson
    >
    > Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
    > Vancouver, BC [email protected]
    >
    > You need a good operator to make type. If it were a
    > DIY affair the caster would only run for about five
    > minutes before the DIYer burned his butt off.
    > - Jim Rimmer
    >

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