- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:37:05 -0700
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On 04/15/2011 06:00 PM, Mark Davis ☕ wrote: > 1. Many of the references to Unicode specifications are outdated, both links and names. For example, > > [UAX24] > Mark Davis. Script Names. <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr24/tr24-7.html> 28 March 2005. Unicode Standard Annex #24. > URL: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr24/tr24-7.html > > <http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr24/tr24-7.html>Should use at least the current name /Unicode Script Property/ and > link: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/tr24-15.html. Or even better is to use the unversioned link > http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/. Thanks. I'll ask Bert to update the references file with the undated versions, if possible. (The bibliography is auto-generated, so I can't fix it myself. ;) > 2. There is a problem with any general categorization of scripts, because the categorization tends to vary according to the > purpose. You'd be far better off, rather than having the categorization that you list, using labels that are directly > associated with the function that you intend. > > For example, if the purpose is to define the scripts affected by text-justify, for example, it would be better remove Section > 1.1, and retarget your Appendix E: Categorization of Scripts by having something like: > > Appendix E: Scripts and Justification > > The style values for text-justify affect the following scripts: > > inter-ideograph > Bopomofo, Han, Hangul, Hiragana, Katakana, Yi... > > inter-cluster > Khmer, Lao, Myanmar, Thai... Well, the style values all affect all scripts, just in different ways depending on the values. I used to have the script categorization under the Justification section, but pulled it up front since I reused somewhere else... I'll shuffle things around using some of your suggestions and see where we get. :) > FYI, http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/utc/script-metadata That's wonderful, thanks. Is there a unicode.org index of handy Unicode-info sites like this? fileformat.info and some of Richard Ishida's tools come to mind as similarly useful. ~fantasai
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