Re: International IMEs for UNIX?

2000-07-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'm looking for ways to work with Unicode in UNIX. I've found > Yudit, and will try it soon. I'm also aware of Emacs LEIM, but > haven't found any instructions. Any pointers to those instructions > or anything else that might be useful would be appreciated. Try the following link. I

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-28 Thread Abdul Malik
- Original Message - From: Md Ziaur Rahman Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 9:38 PM Subject: Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing > Now I came to the conclusion that there is a way to represent khando-ta in Standard and that is quite satisfactory. > > However some indications are confusing. S

Farsi and SQL Server 2000

2000-07-28 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
I need to clarify something because I was partially wrong in my original discussions on Farsi and SQLS 2000. HISTORY: Windows 2000, SQL Server 2000, and Jet 4.0 all use the same codebase for string normalization (though the SQL 2000 case is missing some scripts in Unicode 3.0 and Jet 4.0 is missi

Re: Unicode has included the Inscriptions of Harappa/Mohenjadaro/Egypt...?

2000-07-28 Thread Christopher J. Fynn
"Padma kumar .R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am very much interested 2 know about whether the old inscriptions on > harappa, mohenjadaro, sumaria, egypt and like things are included in the > unicode list... if so, are there any document of how to use or pronounce > atleast some of the

Re: Unicode has included the Inscriptions of

2000-07-28 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 12:09 PM -0800 7/28/00, Curtis Clark wrote: >At the other extreme, the unique, undeciphered Phaistos disk script >was turned down for inclusion. Actually, to be strict about it, it wasn't turned down. Its status is "unapproved." -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Subject lines in UTF-8 mssgs? [was: Proposal to make ...]

2000-07-28 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 01:41 AM 07/13/2000 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >As far as I can understand, the choice of the outgoing charset is highly >automatic in MS Outlook 2000. I suspects it depends on the combination of >characters that I (or the system) used in the various fields of the e-mail. The problem is t

Re: SQL Server and Unicode

2000-07-28 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
There is no way to add collations, no. You care limited to the existing collations (though there are quite a few of those!). There are other implementation details that were less than perfect, as befits a version 1 feature. I stress that in the article (and it is in fact the reason I decided to w

Re: Euro

2000-07-28 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe this is how to settle the Euro glyph thing: > Instead of talking about it, write the Euro glyph > on a piece of paper with a pen, scan it in, and post > it. If we STILL can't agree on what it looks like, > very politely request that one of th

Re: Unicode has included the Inscriptions of

2000-07-28 Thread Curtis Clark
At 10:42 PM 7/27/00 -0800, Padma kumar .R wrote: I am very much interested 2 know about whether the old inscriptions on harappa, mohenjadaro, sumaria, egypt and like things are included in the unicode list... if so, are there any document of how to use or pronounce atleast some of the

Re: SQL Server and Unicode

2000-07-28 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > Oh well, the 3rd party (being me!) solution still works More than the real support, I'm interested in the customizablity thing. Are there any docs available from Microsoft about the way to add one, etc.? Have you reverse-engineered some

Re: Euro

2000-07-28 Thread 11digitboy
Maybe this is how to settle the Euro glyph thing: Instead of talking about it, write the Euro glyph on a piece of paper with a pen, scan it in, and post it. If we STILL can't agree on what it looks like, very politely request that one of the people in CHARGE of this Euro thing please write the Eur

Re: U+2121

2000-07-28 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 06:28 PM 7/25/00 -0800, Patrick Andries wrote: >Shoudl the telephone sign U+2121 be superscript, and therefore annotated > 0054 T 0045 E 004C L. > >The two only Unicode fonts I have show this character as a superscript glyph >(Andalé and Arial Unicode MS). We were unable to locate any supersc

Re: SQL Server and Unicode

2000-07-28 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Indeed, the choices are: Arabic_BIN Arabic_CI_AI Arabic_CI_AI_WS Arabic_CI_AI_KS Arabic_CI_AI_KS_WS Arabic_CI_AS Arabic_CI_AS_WS Arabic_CI_AS_KS Arabic_CI_AS_KS_WS Arabic_CS_AI Arabic_CS_AI_WS Arabic_CS_AI_KS Arabic_CS_AI_KS_WS Arabic_CS_AS Arabic_CS_AS_WS Arabic_CS_AS_KS Arabic_CS_AS_KS_WS And

International IMEs for UNIX?

2000-07-28 Thread Ayers, Mike
I'm looking for ways to work with Unicode in UNIX. I've found Yudit, and will try it soon. I'm also aware of Emacs LEIM, but haven't found any instructions. Any pointers to those instructions or anything else that might be useful would be appreciated. /|/|ike /+yers

Re: Euro

2000-07-28 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > [...] the origin of the Euro glyph is a Greek small epsilon. Any reference for this? I once heard that this is a curved E. It was Peter Flynn in TUGboat I think...

Re: SQL Server and Unicode

2000-07-28 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
It does indeed let them change the collation order to any that is on their "supported" list. I have to go to a meeting, but I will take a look later on the Persian (Farsi) question but I do not remember it on the list so I suspect you are right. I have helped at least one client with utilities th

Re: SQL Server and Unicode

2000-07-28 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > SQL Server 2000 supports a COLLATE keyword that allows you to specify a > collation at the database or field level and thus choose a different > language for such columns/indexes if you like (I discuss practical details > and implications o

Re: UTF-EBCDIC to UTF-8

2000-07-28 Thread Doug Ewell
Jeu George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is their any conversion routine that transforms UTF-EBCDIC > characters to UTF-8 characters. UTF-8 is defined in Chapter 3, page 47, definition D36 of The Unicode Standard, version 3.0. A table is given showing the conversion process. If you don't hav