diacritics (combining characters) are a real mess in Unicode. with so
much space in the format why did they have to go this route, i wonder?
erik mentioned cyrillic. i did have an old church slavonic bible text
i was attempting to display correctly on Plan 9 sometime in 2003-4.
top is x11 with
erik quanstrom wrote:
yes. this is a problem. unfortunately the unicode guys
took the position that codepoint is divorced from glyphs
unfortunately, this case isn't as bad as it gets. e.g. archaic cryllic
letters have transliterations like ^^A in unicode. would
three hats on an A be
the crack support team were busy
brucee
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On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote:
Yes, apparently as far back as March/April of 2001.
don't ask me why I know
ak
Of course everybody is entitled to his opinion, though geoff wrote an
implicit question and if nobody answers, I suggest to kill this thread
and accept what geoff did. If you peek in the archives on unused
mechanisms, you can see that geoff's step makes the most sense in the
9fans context.
what is the total number of stealth characters like nsa?
if it'not too unreasonable, it might be good enough to steal part of
the operating system or application reserved areas.
Any consonant should be able to become a half-consonant,
but only when followed by another consonant. In the TTF
Geoff,
Please do not kill the floppy install option.
I have a few computers that are not able to
boot from CD, but can do so from floppy.
I think the few people that do like to run Plan 9
natively, like myself, perhaps do so on older
computers where this is likely the case.
do it for the
make
Please disregard the question, kbmap perhaps? in my
last post.
I quickly realised that kbmap is only for inputs, while
I'm discussing plain old output from every other source.
partying too much
ak
to be fair to the unicode people, this decoupling of glyphs and codepoints
is (i think) the most straightforward way to implement some languages like
arabic, where the glyphs for characters depend on their position within a
word. that is, a letter at the beginning of a word looks different
FWIW, there is the solution to bootstrap the install with another mean
on a floppy.
For example, using GRUB with serial line to load a plan9 install kernel
(not tested).
Or to use etherboot (gPXE) on a floppy to load a PXE version.
Just to say that the remove of the floppy mean doesn't render
On Sun Jul 26 02:12:21 EDT 2009, bval...@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest that you keep the floppy-install option. If Plan 9 is
installed, its normally on a virtual machine, or on an older computer
somewhere in the garage, often with floppy-drives only. But if its
time consuming to support it...
do
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:48:23AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
my opinion (not that i'm entitled to one here) is
that the unicode guys screwed up. unicode is not
consistant. explain why there are two code points sigma.
03c3 greek small letter sigma
03c2 greek small letter final sigma
On Sun Jul 26 10:14:51 EDT 2009, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:48:23AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
my opinion (not that i'm entitled to one here) is
that the unicode guys screwed up. unicode is not
consistant. explain why there are two code points sigma.
the real problem isn't in viewing them however, but comes when you
start searching for them: it's easy to search for ë (e-umlaut) for
example, but what if it's described as e+U+0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS?
the answer is the UTS#18 Regular Expressions technical standard which
probably contributes
All my floppy drives died and were thus disposed some years ago.
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:48:23AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
to be fair to the unicode people, this decoupling of glyphs and codepoints
is (i think) the most straightforward way to implement some languages like
arabic, where the glyphs for characters depend on their position within a
Fixed in http://code.swtch.com/plan9port/changeset/c9f799b3ad09/
Thanks.
If I'm reading you right, you're saying it might be easier if
everything were encoded as combining (or maybe more aptly
non-combining) codes, regardless of language?
So, we might encode 'Waffles' as w+upper a f f l e s and let the
renderer (if there is one) handle the presentation of the case
I forgot the obvious: Install a bootloader capable of booting CD-ROMs to a
floppy.
--
Ethan Grammatikidis
Those who are slower at parsing information must
necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:51:54PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
I forgot the obvious: Install a bootloader capable of booting CD-ROMs to a
floppy.
This won't help if the BIOS doesn't support El Torito, since a
bootloader has generally no drivers (except for ethernet perhaps), and
since
On Sun Jul 26 14:40:56 EDT 2009, knapj...@gmail.com wrote:
If I'm reading you right, you're saying it might be easier if
everything were encoded as combining (or maybe more aptly
non-combining) codes, regardless of language?
So, we might encode 'Waffles' as w+upper a f f l e s and let the
The following is being printed to the console non-stop:
err 2: arena arenas00 creation time after last write time
... and I saw this during bootup:
arena arenas00: header is out-of-date
Apparently my clock/date was set a day ahead when I installed the terminal.
How do I correct the
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