Re: OT: Unicode 5.0

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:07:49 -0500, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:

> Paul Bennett wrote:
>> Am I alone in being rather excited by Unicode 5.0?
>>  In particular, I'm personally excited by Latin Extended-C & -D on the
>> BMP,  and Cuneiform on the SMP.
>
> Hmm.... I can't seem to find the specifics about what's new in 5.0.
See the Roadmaps at http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/

> What sorts of characters are included in Latin Extended C & D?
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:36:46 -0500, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:

> When is it due?
I have no earthly idea. The closest thing I can get to a firm date is the
following cryptic line:

Target Dates (completion):
PDAM: 2006-02-15, FPDAM: 2006-09-15, FDAM 2007-02

Whether this means an announcement in a few weeks, a little over a year,
or something in between is a question to take up with your local ISO
representative. You might be better then me at deciphering
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/ though.

> A good suggestion -- I should check the Extended-C & D you mention,
> I think I missed those until now.
In Latin Extended-C and Latin Extended-D are going to have a lot of
medievalist and related glyphs (including a whole bunch of insular
characters, and plenty of ligatures and abbreviations), as well as a
selection of characters for some South American and African languages.

The PDFs are at http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n2847.pdf and
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2957.pdf

The PDF for Cuneiform is at http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n2664.pdf




Paul

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