Re: UTF-8 can be used for more than it is given credit

From: James Kass (jameskass@att.net)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 03:04:04 CDT

Next message: Richard Wordingham: "Greek Uppercasing"

Previous message: Simon Montagu: "Re: Vietnamese (Re: Unicode, SMS, PDA/cellphones)"
Maybe in reply to: Richard Wordingham: "Re: UTF-8 can be used for more than it is given credit"
Next in thread: Richard Wordingham: "Re: UTF-8 can be used for more than it is given credit"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

Doug Ewell replied to Theodore H. Smith,

> > 3) Each unique glyph, has one and only sequence of codepoints in NFD.
>
> I give up trying to explain why "glyph" is wrong in this context.
> Others are welcome to try. Good luck.

Please see John Hudson's post regarding terminology on another list to
understand why Doug Ewell calls "glyph" an inappropriate choice here,
specifically the end of the diacritic section:

http://lists.kabissa.org/lists/archives/public/a12n-collaboration/msg00144.html

Rather than (mis)using the term "glyph" in this context, it might be
better to call it a "grapheme/typeform" or even spell it out as "letter
or letter-with-mark combination".

Best regards,

James Kass

Next message: Richard Wordingham: "Greek Uppercasing"
Previous message: Simon Montagu: "Re: Vietnamese (Re: Unicode, SMS, PDA/cellphones)"
Maybe in reply to: Richard Wordingham: "Re: UTF-8 can be used for more than it is given credit"
Next in thread: Richard Wordingham: "Re: UTF-8 can be used for more than it is given credit"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Jun 06 2006 - 03:21:49 CDT