Unicode Inc has copied some number of letters/symbols from Greek script, and then renamed as Latin script.
Upon asking in Unicode Inc forum < unicode @ unicode.org> how many Greek letters/symbols have been copied and renamed as Latin, following is an example how Unicode Inc exits its arrogance through one of its workers. "<sarcasm> +10000^1000000 to that. Unicode should not keep such information secret." Mark Davis ☕ (sıʌɐp ʞɹɐɯ) < mark @ macchiato.com > runs this industry as the president. Tulasi From: Mahesh T. Pai <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:43 PM Subject: Re: Latin Script To: [email protected] Tulasi said on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 03:25:01PM -0700,: > 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? > > Can you email the list of these letters/symbols as well, including names? <sarcasm> +10000^1000000 to that. Unicode should not keep such information secret. What do you guys at Unicode think? That such information is a state secret or what? Huh? C'mon, out with it!!!! </sarcasm> Sigh!! Some people never read replies. They just ask. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com Free Software - it is free as in FREEDOM From: Tulasi <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:25 PM Subject: Re: Latin Script To: Mark Davis ☕ <[email protected]> Cc: Unicode Mailing List <[email protected]>, Doug Ewell <[email protected]>, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> 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 ☕ <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:37 PM Subject: Re: Latin Script To: Tulasi <[email protected]> Cc: Unicode Mailing List <[email protected]>, Doug Ewell <[email protected]>, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> 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 From: Doug Ewell <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:09:41 -0600 Subject: Re: Latin Script To: Unicode Mailing List <[email protected]> Cc: Tulasi <[email protected]> "Tulasi" <tulasird at gmail dot com> wrote: >> U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR (which does not contain "LATIN") is >> considered part of the Latin script, while U+271D LATIN CROSS (which >> does) is considered common to all scripts. > > Can you post both symbols please, thanks? I can point you to http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf , which includes a glyph for U+00AA, and http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf , which includes a glyph for U+271D. I don't think it's necessary to post these glyphs to the public list. > Trying to know who among ISO and Unicode first created the names' list > for Latin-script is not an indication of obsession :-') > > So among Unicode and ISO/IEC, who first created ISO/IEC 8859-1 & > ISO/IEC 8859-2 letters/symbols names with each name with LATIN in it? Most of the characters in the various parts of ISO 8859 were originally standardized before Unicode or ISO 10646, so the names were probably either created by the ISO/IEC subcommittees responsible for those parts, or found in earlier standards and adopted as-is. The merger between Unicode and ISO 10646 caused a few character names in Unicode to be changed to match the 10646 names. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ is dot gd slash 2kf0s
