Unicode various Indian font styles

2000-07-24 Thread Magda Danish (Unicode)
-Original Message-From: AGARWAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 7:43 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: information Dear Sir/Madam, Hello! We are a translation agency by the name MULTI-LINGUIST, operating from India. We are interested in incorporating the

RE: Unicode various Indian font styles

2000-07-24 Thread Apurva Joshi
Hello Mr. Paresh Agarwal, Yes, it is certainly possible to make your fonts based on Unicode. The fonts would need to contain glyphs mapped to the corresponding code-points in the Indic blocks. If the fonts contain a number of consonant conjuncts, and glyph variants for vowel signs whose use is

RE: What is Unicode in Chinese?

2000-07-24 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Ed asked: Would it be appropriate to look at the title of GB-13000, which is ISO/IEC 10646-1 in China? Probably not, since it is a national version of 10646, and not of Unicode. It is, at any rate: Xinxi jishu -- Tongyong duobawei bianma zifuji (UCS), i.e. "Information technology --

Re: Abnormal Bytes and Unicode: (was Re: Unicode FAQ addendum)

2000-07-24 Thread Torsten Mohrin
Kenneth Whistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the first step to interoperability in big, interconnected system software using C is to set up fundamental header files containing well-defined datatypes of fixed sizes, to make up for the lack of same in the definition of C itself. The lack of

Oracle and Surrogate Pairs

2000-07-24 Thread Mikko Lahti
Title: Oracle and Surrogate Pairs What is the correct way of supporting surrogate pairs in Oracle 8? Anything wrong with approach of making fields 3 times longer from ASCII or should fields be 4 times ASCII as per UTF-8 spec? Later, Mikko Globalization Specialist Onyx Software [EMAIL

Re: Oracle and Surrogate Pairs

2000-07-24 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Does the field in question need to support literally any possible character in Unicode 3.0 and beyond (since 3.0 does not have any surrogates assigned!)? If not, then you can actually consider how big the field needs to be by the characters being used and what is the largest per character byte

Re: Oracle and Surrogate Pairs

2000-07-24 Thread Jianping Yang
Mikko, As there is no character defined in surrogate range in Unicode 3.0, the maximum width for Oracle UTF8 character set is 3 bytes. Here I recommend you to use 3 times for the number of characters you intend to store in a column. Regards, Jianping.. Mikko Lahti wrote: What is the correct way

RE: Oracle and Surrogate Pairs

2000-07-24 Thread Mikko Lahti
What is the recommendation what comes dealing surrogate pairs and supporting CJK Unified Ideographs, Extension B (especially HKSCS) which will be in next version of the Unicode standard? Mikko -Original Message- From: Jianping Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday,

Re: Oracle and Surrogate Pairs

2000-07-24 Thread John H. Jenkins
Does the field in question need to support literally any possible character in Unicode 3.0 and beyond (since 3.0 does not have any surrogates assigned!)? True, but within a year or so, there *will* be surrogates assigned in Unicode. One cannot be premature in supporting them at