RE: Latin Script

From: Erkki I Kolehmainen (eik@iki.fi)
Date: Wed Jul 14 2010 - 03:13:51 CDT

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    Tulasi,

    I cannot even imagine the level of misunderstandings you seem to have on how the process works. New characters are proposed to either ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 or the Unicode Technical Committee or simultaneously to both (like I have done). In all cases they will be included in ISO/IEC 10646 and The Unicode Standard only after an agreement has been worked out on the need to encode them and on their names by both committees. Sometimes this is a very long process, and it would be wrong to state that some characters are "discovered" by either organization.

    Incidentally, the character names in the various ISO/IEC 8859 parts were aligned with those in the 10646/Unicode when those parts were last updated some ten years ago.

    I can only agree with Mark on his suggestion. Also, you have already been pointed out several times where to find the relevant information.

    Sincerely,

    Erkki I. Kolehmainen

    -----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
    Lähettäjä: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] Puolesta Tulasi
    Lähetetty: 14. heinäkuuta 2010 1:25
    Vastaanottaja: Mark Davis ☕
    Kopio: Unicode Mailing List; Doug Ewell; Edward Cherlin
    Aihe: Re: Latin Script

    Link is working, thanks! I spent some times with no luck on link as
    well as unicode.org, because I wanted to find:

    The list of Latin letters/symbols that Unicode has discovered.

    Here, a letter/symbol with LATIN in its name in Unicode/ISO is a Latin
    letter/symbol. And I call a "Latin letter/symbol" discovered by
    Unicode if it created the name before ISO in the standard otherwise
    discovered by ISO.

    Can you email the list of Latin letters/symbols that Unicode discovered?

    Can you also email list of letters/symbols that are not Latin but each
    has LATIN in its name?

    > The merger between Unicode and ISO 10646 caused a few character names in
    > Unicode to be changed to match the 10646 names.

    Can you email the list of these letters/symbols as well, including names?

    Thanks,
    Tulasi

    From: Mark Davis ☕ <mark@macchiato.com>
    Date: Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:37 PM
    Subject: Re: Latin Script
    To: Tulasi <tulasird@gmail.com>
    Cc: Unicode Mailing List <unicode@unicode.org>, Doug Ewell
    <doug@ewellic.org>, Edward Cherlin <echerlin@gmail.com>

    See the following for the (many) differences between characters with
    the Latin script, and those with LATIN in their names.

    http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/unicodeset.jsp?a=\p{script:latin}&b=\p{name:/LATIN/}

    I'd suggest taking a more focused approach to learning about the
    standard, rather than trying relatively scattershot questions to this
    list. You might read through at least the first 3 chapters of the
    Unicode Standard, plus the Scripts UAX. These are all online for free
    at unicode.org.

    Mark

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