Re: Urgent call for clarification of Armenian numbering rules

From: Kent Karlsson (kent.karlsson14@comhem.se)
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 03:37:06 CST

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    In that case, I would very much suggest that this issue is (again) brought
    to the attention of the UTC and WG2.

        /kent k

    Den 2009-01-30 01.01, skrev "Thomas Phinney" <thomas.phinney@gmail.com>:

    >
    > It seems that the patiw being spacing rather than combining is an
    > error in Unicode. :(
    >
    > Search for "patiw" here:
    > http://www.evertype.com/standards/hy/n1395tech.html
    > "This is a combining character."
    >
    > Hrant Papazian writes:
    > "The mistake has persisted probably because
    > nobody uses the patiw, because nobody puts
    > a -usable- patiw in a font, because pre-OpenType it
    > was impossible to render such a floating mark.
    > Not to mention that the patiw is a very archaic
    > character that always looks old-fashioned."
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > T
    >
    > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Kent Karlsson
    > <kent.karlsson14@comhem.se> wrote:
    >>
    >> Den 2009-01-29 21.35, skrev "Thomas Phinney" <thomas.phinney@gmail.com>:
    >>
    >>> More from Hrant Papazian on Armenuan numbering:
    >>
    >>>> 3. is the glyph that indicates values over 9,999 a circumflex or a line
    >>>
    >>> My educated guess is something like U+055F
    >>
    >> 055F;ARMENIAN ABBREVIATION MARK;Po;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
    >>
    >> This is a spacing punctuation character, not a mark above.
    >>
    >> /kent k
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >

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