Re: NUKTA

2000-08-23 Thread Jaap Pranger
At 18:05 +0200 2000.08.23, James E. Agenbroad wrote: >In a list of Devanagari conjuncts if compiled a while ago there are at >least two cases of conjuncts in which both consonants have a nukta: >1. Ka + nukta + halant + ka + nukta = qqa >2. Ka + nukta + hanant + pha + nukta = qfa > >I think:

Re: NUKTA

2000-08-23 Thread Jaap Pranger
At 19:57 +0200 2000.08.23, Antoine Leca wrote: >As a sidepoint (not really relevant, but it may matter), ISCII-91 >does use the combination of vowel with nukta, in both standalone >and vowel sign form. > short ri + nukta gives long rii > short i + nukta gives short vocalic li (and issues a co

Re: NUKTA

2000-08-23 Thread Jaap Pranger
At 01:18 +0200 2000.08.23, Kenneth Whistler wrote: >I think the valid way to bracket this is: > >[{( Ka + Nukta ) + Virama} + {( Ta + Nukta ) + Virama} + Sa] Is Ta+Nukta a valid/existing character? [...] >The only real question here is what typographical practice in Devanagari >would be i

My pedometer is stuck at zero.

2000-08-23 Thread Sarasvati
Good evening Eleven Digit Boy! Profuse thanks for the sparkling new pedometer, which arrived upon my black box by a very long and circuitous route that took a good long time. I regret to inform you that since I still do not walk, the pedometer remains stuck at zero. Even upon the occasion of th

Re: Mac/PC interoperability

2000-08-23 Thread RenE J.V. Bertin
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Deborah Goldsmith wrote: 8-) In Mac OS 8.5, the definition of 0xDB in the MacRoman character set changed from U+00A4 (currency sign) to U+20AC (Euro). Mac OS 8.5 and later treat 0xDB as the Euro. 8-) 8-) If you are omitting characters that don't translate, then perhaps you

Re: Mac/PC interoperability

2000-08-23 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
On Saturday, August 19, 2000, at 08:50 AM, RenE J.V. Bertin wrote: > I have a preliminary version of the fonts ready. It works, but there seems to be an > issue with the conversion of the "currency" character and the character replacing >it, > in documents coming from Mac. All other character

Re: NUKTA

2000-08-23 Thread Antoine Leca
James E. Agenbroad wrote: > > Whether a vowel or vowel sign can have a nukta I do not know. As a sidepoint (not really relevant, but it may matter), ISCII-91 does use the combination of vowel with nukta, in both standalone and vowel sign form. short ri + nukta gives long rii short i + nukta

Re: CVTUTF.C bug & question

2000-08-23 Thread Mark Davis
Thanks. That code does need to be fixed, once we get the time. Oliver Steinau wrote: > I have a question concerning the CVTUTF.C file that is on the CD in the > Unicode 3.0 book. There's a piece of code which I don't think is correct... > > Function ConvertUTF8toUTF16 contains the following piec

Re: NUKTA

2000-08-23 Thread James E. Agenbroad
{snip} > ] The only real question here is what typographical practice in Devanagari > ] would be if two nuktated consonants came together in a halfform/fullform > ] juxtaposition or in a conjunct form involving two nuktated consonants > ] (do such conjunct forms even exist? -- I wo

FYI: URL for Online ISO Standards

2000-08-23 Thread Hart, Edwin F.
http://isotc.iso.ch/livelink/livelink/fetch/2000/2489/Ittf_Home/PubliclyAvai lableStandards.htm TR 15285 is now there. Ed Edwin F. Hart The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 11100 Johns Hopkins Road Laurel, MD 20723-6099 +1-443-778-6926 (Baltimore) +1-240-228-6926 (DC Area

Round-trip compatibility

2000-08-23 Thread Lacoursiere, Guy
Hi, The following are excerpts from the mapping tables contained on the Unicode 3.0 CD for CNS-11643 and BIG5. The mapping tables are 7 years old. However since they are on the Unicode 3.0 CD I am assuming that they are still valid... CNS-11643 # WARNING! It is currently impossible to provide r

RE: (OT) ISO 3166-2 online?

2000-08-23 Thread Hart, Edwin F.
You can obtain copies of ISO standards from your national standards organization. I do not know if the prices will be different. In the US, it is ANSI Attn: Customer Service American National Standards Institute 1 W. 42nd St. New York, NY 10026 1-212-642-4900 1-212-302-1286 (fax) http://www.a

CVTUTF.C bug & question

2000-08-23 Thread Oliver Steinau
I have a question concerning the CVTUTF.C file that is on the CD in the Unicode 3.0 book. There's a piece of code which I don't think is correct... Function ConvertUTF8toUTF16 contains the following piece of code (line 210): [ch is the result of the conversion so far]: if (ch <=