Re: Character list for European and Canadian use in the revised keyboard standard ISO/IEC 9995-3, supplementing MES-1

From: Karl Pentzlin (karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2008 - 08:10:07 CDT

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    Am Donnerstag, 18. September 2008 um 13:57 schrieb António MARTINS-Tuválkin:

    AMT> On 2008.09.17, 23:46, Karl Pentzlin <karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de> wrote:

    >> U+204A TIRONIAN SIGN ET
    >> (besides common Gaelic use, also used in Fraktur for the
    >> "et" in the abbreviation "etc."; then commonly misnomed as
    >> "r rotunda" because its similarity to that medieval glyph
    >> variant of "r")

    AMT> You mean its similarity to U+A75B LATIN SMALL LETTER R ROTUNDA?

    Yes. [1] shows that the Tironian Et really can accept that shape.

    >> C. "Nice to have" (if there are gaps left):
    >> ========================================
    AMT> <...>
    >> Special hyphens and spaces:
    >> U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE
    >> U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
    >> U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN

    AMT> U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN, in conjuction with U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN, are
    AMT> *absolutely mandatory* to spell / typeset correct Portuguese. Users rely
    AMT> costumarily on specific software shortcuts (in MS Word: Shift-Ctrl-hyphen
    AMT> and Ctrl-hyphen, in InDesign: Shift-Alt-Ctrl-hyphen and Shift-Ctrl-hyphen,
    AMT> etc.).

    Thank you for your hint; it will be considered.

    - Karl Pentzlin

    [1] Jan Tschichold, Formenwandlungen der Et-Zeichen, 1953
        reprinted in: Signa 2, Grimma (Germany) 2001 (ISBN 3-933629-06-3),
        p.5-26 (in German language), referring to p.13 e.g. fig.81

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