Hi, William,
I have to admit that I really haven't looked carefully at your
transformation techniques and their intended purpose. But it strikes me that
you might be re-inventing the wheel. A number of schemes exist for squeezing
wide bit patterns into narrow bit streams. UTF-8 has been adopted
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The following statements have been made by participants in this thread.
1.
A few days ago I said there was a "widespread belief" that Unicode is a
extensive
reading on the website (or in the book).
Patrick Rourke
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In a message dated 2001-02-20 06:18:34 Pacific Standard Time,
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With the Unicode-related functions in Prague growing out of size, I moved
them
into a new library called 'Babylon'. It will provide all the functionality
defined in the Unicode standard (it is not
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On Tuesday 20 February 2001 17:03, you wrote:
In a message dated 2001-02-20 06:18:34 Pacific Standard Time,
into a new library called 'Babylon'. It will provide all the
functionality defined in the Unicode standard (it is not Unicode but
The following statements have been made by participants in this thread.
1.
A few days ago I said there was a "widespread belief" that Unicode is a
16-bit-only character set that ends at U+. A corollary is that the
supplementary characters ranging from U+1 to U+10 are either
On 02/20/2001 11:18:40 AM Tobias Hunger wrote:
Looks like David was quoting me. I am working on Babylon and wanted to
make
clear that it is not unicode conformant as its API uses 32bit wide
characters
which violates clause 1 of Section 3.1.
This is something that UTC should clean up because C1
Paul Keinänen said:
[86-M8] Motion: Amend Unicode 3.1 to change the Chapter 3, C1 conformance
clause to read "A process shall interpret Unicode code units (values) in
accordance with the Unicode transformation format used." (passed)
While this wording makes it possible to handle any 32 bit
A few days ago I said there was a "widespread belief" that Unicode is a
16-bit-only character set that ends at U+. A corollary is that the
supplementary characters ranging from U+1 to U+10 are either
little-known or perceived to belong to ISO/IEC 10646 only, not to Unicode.
At
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:42:41PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A few days ago I said there was a "widespread belief" that Unicode is a
16-bit-only character set that ends at U+. A corollary is that the
supplementary characters ranging from U+1 to U+10 are either
Because of the widespread belief that Unicode stops at U+,
many fonts and applications that claim to support Unicode can
only handle basic characters, not supplementary characters.
Right. (Is it really a widespread belief? That's something I've
been wondering.)
So
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In a message dated 2001-02-15 15:26:55 Pacific Standard Time,
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At 2001-0
In a message dated 2001-02-16 0:19:01 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Because of the widespread belief that Unicode stops at U+,
many fonts and applications that claim to support Unicode can
only handle basic characters, not supplementary characters.
Right.
Tom Lord asked:
It has proven difficult to come up with convenient terms for
the Unicode characters encoded at U+1 and beyond.
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2. A 'basic' code point, which may represent a 'basic
character', can range from U+ through U+.
For what purpose is such a
At 2001-02-06 07:48:29 -0800 Mark Davis wrote:
At 2001-02-06 01:51 "nikita k" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is surrogate space in unicode?
It is the set of code points that can be addressed using
surrogate code points. For more information, see the
glossary at www.u
In a message dated 2001-02-15 15:26:55 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
At 2001-02-06 07:48:29 -0800 Mark Davis wrote:
At 2001-02-06 01:51 "nikita k" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is surrogate space in unicode?
(Mark defines various terms relating to 'sup
It has proven difficult to come up with convenient terms for
the Unicode characters encoded at U+1 and beyond.
[]
2. A 'basic' code point, which may represent a 'basic
character', can range from U+ through U+.
For what purpose is such a
In a message dated 2001-02-15 23:15:23 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
It has proven difficult to come up with convenient terms for
the Unicode characters encoded at U+1 and beyond.
[]
2. A 'basic' code point, which may represent a 'basic
character', can
Hi,
What is surrogate space in unicode?
Thanks,
Nikita K
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Hi,
What is surrogate space in unicode?
Thanks,
Nikita K
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