Re: preliminary proposal: New Unicode characters for Arabic music half-flat and half-sharp symbols

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:41 AM Hans Åberg <haberg-1_at_telia.com> wrote:

>
> > On 17 May 2018, at 08:47, Garth Wallace via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:42 AM, Hans Åberg via Unicode <
> unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> It would be best to encode the SMuFL symbols, which is rather
> comprehensive and include those:
> >> https://www.smufl what should be unified.org
> >> http://www.smufl.org/version/latest/
> >> ...
> >>
> >> These are otherwise originally the same, but has since drifted. So
> whether to unify them or having them separate might be best to see what
> SMuFL does, as they are experts on the issue.
> >>
> > SMuFL's standards on unification are not the same as Unicode's. For one
> thing, they re-encode Latin letters and Arabic digits multiple times for
> various different uses (such as numbers used in tuplets and those used in
> time signatures).
>
> The reason is probably because it is intended for use with music
> engraving, and they should then be rendered differently.

Exactly. But Unicode would consider these a matter for font switching in
rich text.

> There are duplicates all over the place, like how the half-sharp symbol
> is encoded at U+E282 as "accidentalQuarterToneSharpStein", at U+E422 as
> "accidentalWyschnegradsky3TwelfthsSharp", at U+ED35 as
> "accidentalQuarterToneSharpArabic", and at U+E444 as "accidentalKomaSharp".
> They are graphically identical, and the first three even all mean the same
> thing, a quarter tone sharp!
>
> But the tuning system is different, E24 and Pythagorean. Some Latin and
> Greek uppercase letters are exactly the same but have different encodings.

Tuning systems are not scripts.
Received on Thu May 17 2018 - 09:48:02 CDT