RE: Encoding????????????

2000-09-27 Thread Carl W. Brown
Sandeep,   Big5 is the DBCS encoding used for traditional Chinese characters (Taiwan Chinese).  It can not be used for Korean.  It uses code page 950.   UTF-8 is a Unicode encoding.   Carl   -Original Message-From: Sandeep Krishna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, Sept

RE: New Locale Proposal

2000-09-27 Thread Carl W. Brown
Erland, Originally I was concerned about script playing an important role in locale variants. However, if we assume that these are Unicode locales then a new rule comes into play. If the scripts don't overlap don't worry. Support both in the same locale. Carl -Original Message- From:

Encoding????????????

2000-09-27 Thread Sandeep Krishna
hi guys...   can someone tell me...what does the Encoding in the browser (IE5) imlpy. does it mean that the Encoding (say UTF-8 or Chinese Big5) shall be used for encoding/ decoding any data ..(page) to be displayed or sent   i mean if i use an encoding like Big5 how does it enc

Even further OT (was Re: [very OT] "Slavic")

2000-09-27 Thread Edward Cherlin
At 10:15 AM -0800 9/25/00, John Cowan wrote: >Michael Everson wrote: > >> A Swedish informant here says that "rotvälska" means 'gibberish, >> incomprehensible language'. > >Nicely parallel to the Greek use of "vlakhika" in the same sense. >There is also the word "fragkovlakhika", which I particu

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Re: New Locale Proposal

2000-09-27 Thread Erland Sommarskog
Antoine Leca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the last publication of new codes, there was "bs" for "Bosnian". > My understanding of the situation of the former Yugoslavia is that > the language which is intended to be tagged is a form of Serbo-Croatian > that is spoken in the country named Bosnia

Implementation of isLetter()

2000-09-27 Thread John O'Conner
Should an isLetter() implementation return true for "Nl" characters as well as the usual "L*"? Regards, John

RE: Implementation of Unicode

2000-09-27 Thread Carl W. Brown
Dear Sir, Since Unicode is a superset of codepage 850 you certainly can filter out any other characters. I suggest that you filter these out as close to the keying as possible. Since you are using codepage 850 data, you might want to look at using UTF-8 for storing your data since most characte

RE: [idn] nameprep forbidden characters

2000-09-27 Thread Jonathan Rosenne
See my comments inline. Jony > -Original Message- > From: Mark Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 10:40 PM > To: Jonathan Rosenne > Cc: Unicode List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Edmon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [idn] nameprep forbidden characters > > > I'm

RE: [idn] nameprep forbidden characters

2000-09-27 Thread Jonathan Rosenne
See my comments inline. Jony > -Original Message- > From: Mark Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 10:40 PM > To: Jonathan Rosenne > Cc: Unicode List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Edmon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [idn] nameprep forbidden characters > > > I'm

[FRENCH] [AAD 1] Creation de fr.comp.text.unicode (non modere)

2000-09-27 Thread Antoine Leca
This text is written in French. If you are not able to read French, this post will be of no interest to you, so you can hit Delete just now. I apologize for the annoyance. Si vous êtes arrivé ici, c'est que vous lisez le français... Une discussion s'est engagée en vue de la création d'un groupe

FW: Implementation of Unicode

2000-09-27 Thread Magda Danish (Unicode)
-Original Message- From: McGonigle, Laurence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 8:51 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Implementation of Unicode Hi, we are a large government organisation in Western Australia and require some advice on the use and implementa

Re: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

2000-09-27 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Sandeep, Can you explain exactly what you are doing to get the data from ASP into the Oracle database? Perhaps post the ASP code? Like most scriptoing languages, VBScript and JScript both support UCS-2, and it is really usually the Oracle ODBC or OLE DB driver that has the job of converting the t

RE: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

2000-09-27 Thread Kedar Moghe
Only registry entries on the database machine. Not any other entry. Regsrds, Kedar -Original Message- From: Sandeep Krishna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 6:21 PM To: Kedar Moghe Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unicode + oracle query... (suggestion

Re: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

2000-09-27 Thread Sandeep Krishna
i mean all the entries at both Web server machine's registry and Oracle Database server machine's registry or either one. in our setup... my machine is the Web Server and the Oracle Server is a separate machine please clarify regards, Sandeep - Original Message - From: Ke

RE: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

2000-09-27 Thread Kedar Moghe
Sandeep, I think you need to change at following three places, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ORACLE\NLS_LANG HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ORACLE\ALL_HOMES\ID0\NLS_LANG HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ORACLE\HOME0\NLS_LANG Best of luck Regards, Kedar -Original Message- From: Sandeep Krishna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] S

Re: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

2000-09-27 Thread Sandeep Krishna
hi... i m thoroughly confused. actually the registry entries for oracle shows 3 entries for NLS_LANG. and that too at the WEB SERVER end and at the DATABASE SERVER end. so that makes tooo many combinations... can someone indicate which of these NLS_LANG entries have to be set as "AME

Re: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

2000-09-27 Thread J%ORG KNAPPEN
Sandeep Krishna schrieb: > * some unicode characters(or rather code points.) like' F95F' when encoded > in UTF-8 was being encoded as EF A5 BF, when it should have been encoded as > EF A5 9F.. in fact many unicode charcters whose encoded form had to had a > byte in the range (80..9F) were bein

RE: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

2000-09-27 Thread Carl W. Brown
Sandeep,   what version of Oracle?  What API?   Carl -Original Message-From: Sandeep Krishna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 8:36 PMTo: Unicode ListSubject: unicode + oracle query... (suggestions needed...) hi   actually i have been

Re: unicode + oracle query....... (suggestions needed...)

2000-09-27 Thread Sandeep Krishna
hi, thankx for responding. but when u mention change in the registry.. could u elaborate about where exactly in reg and what changes are required my registry setting shows NLS = American_English.UTF8. is this the setting u indicated..or something to so with the charset entry : autodetect a