From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \lgroup in mkIV
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:48:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110109184856.GB2552@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110108202917.GA23000@phare.normalesup.org>
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 08:29:17PM +0000, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> > There are, but context is looking for the wring character; it is looking
> > for U+3014 (which I think is a CJK bracket
>
> Indeed. It's one of the angle brackets that one finds in many CJK
> fonts.
>
> > while it should be looking for U+27EE (whose Unicode
> > annotation precisely says "lgroup"):
>
> Note that those annatations in the code charts are actually the
> Unicode 1.0 names of the characters, where they differ from the Unicode
> 1.1 names (when Unicode was unified with ISO 10646 and adopted some of
> its names). They should not, in general, be understood as the name of
> this character is some other standard, for example. But they are of
> course a good hint of what the character represents.
I usually look for long description, it can sometimes be very helpful on
what is the intended use of the characters (names are not very accurate,
especially early characters which are often misnamed).
Regards,
Khaled
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-09 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-08 15:09 Daniel Schopper
2011-01-08 17:52 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-08 19:35 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-01-08 19:47 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-01-08 19:59 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-08 20:08 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2011-01-09 0:45 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-08 20:25 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-01-08 23:30 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-09 1:13 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2011-01-09 18:44 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-01-09 18:59 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-09 19:58 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-01-09 19:58 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-01-09 21:15 ` Hans Hagen
2011-01-09 21:14 ` Hans Hagen
2011-01-08 20:29 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2011-01-09 18:48 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2011-01-09 3:24 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-01-10 18:28 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-01-10 23:43 ` Daniel Schopper
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