Re: combining: half, double, triple et cetera ad infinitum

On 11/14/2011 6:09 AM, Karl Pentzlin wrote:
> Am Montag, 14. November 2011 um 14:37 schrieb satai:
>
> s> E.g. if we take designation of number 123 in Cyrillic, it should be
> s> РКГ below the single titlo/tilde. How N4078 handles it? (I mean
> s> particular characters sequence)
>
> If you want РКГ with a tilde applied (as substitute for the
> not-yet-encoded multiple titlo), the character sequence is:
>
> Р
> U+FE22 COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE LEFT HALF
> К
> U+FE26 COMBINING CONJOINING MACRON
> Г
> U+FE23 COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE RIGHT HALF
>
> Please note that while all of these characters are contained in
> Unicode 6.1, the mechanism to generate a tilde spanning over three
> characters is not; this extended function of the "Combining Half Mark"
> characters for others than U+FE24...FE26 was only accepted recently
> together with the new characters in WG2 N4078. Thus, it will be available
> with the future Unicode version which will have incorporated these.

The interesting question is perhaps not when this gets incorporated into
Unicode, but when it gets added to implementations (and if so, which ones).
>
> As said in my previous mail, tilde is not titlo, thus you need to
> propose:
> U+FE2E COMBINING DOUBLE TITLO LEFT HALF
> U+FE2F COMBINING DOUBLE TITLO RIGHT HALF
> and substitute the "tilde" characters in the sequence above by them.
>
> Remark:
> I have no special knowledge on Cyrillic paleography, but I remember to
> have learned that the titlo may be applied to the last digit only to
> mark the whole letter group as a number, thus your group can be written:
>
> Р
> К
> Г
> U+0483 COMBINING TITLO
>
> Maybe I am simply in error, or a titlo spanning over more than one
> letter has a significantly different meaning from the titlo being
> applied to a single letter of that sequence in other contexts.
> A proposal for "combining double titlo" parts shouuld address such
> questions.
>
> - Karl
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Received on Mon Nov 14 2011 - 14:56:47 CST