RE: Microsoft Office 2001 Mac

2000-10-13 Thread Alan Wood
Edward Cherlin asked what does use the Mac OS 9 Extended Roman and Unicode Hex keyboard drivers. There are two experimental text editors that use them: MLTE Demo: http://www.merzwaren.com/snippets/index.html#mltedemo SUE: http://members.tripod.com/%7Etomaszek/sue.html Does anything else use

Re: A binary that runs on Win9X and WinNT

2000-10-13 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Lars Marius Garshol | | This white paper describes the solution that we have already | considered and are hoping to avoid. Such a set of hand-written | wrapper functions around the Win32 API functions must have been | written dozens of times already? Doesn't someone offer this as a | product

RE: lag time in Unicode implementations in OS, etc?

2000-10-13 Thread Murray Sargent
It would be great if things were that easy. But users typically don't want to worry about fonts. They enter a character, maybe by pasting plain text, and want it magically to appear as something other than the "missing-character" glyph. They probably don't even know if it's a

Re: do all browsers support UTF-8 encoding???

2000-10-13 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Alan Wood | | Opera 4 (a Windows browser) does not support Unicode. True. It does decode UTF-8 correctly, but this is not of much use for non-Latin1 characters. It is possible that version 4.1 for Windows will handle UTF-8 correctly for the platform default encoding, even if that happens

Re: SGML (or XML) Unicode-enabled publishing tools

2000-10-13 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Tony Graham | | Try 3B2 (http://www.3b2.com/). I've seen 3B2 do Arabic, and I've seen | 3B2 do Japanese, but I don't know whether it's Unicode-enabled. What I heard some months ago was that they were working on a Unicode-enabled version. Whether it is out now or not I don't know. --Lars

Re: SGML (or XML) Unicode-enabled publishing tools

2000-10-13 Thread Patrick Andries
Lars Marius Garshol schrieb: * Tony Graham | | Try 3B2 (http://www.3b2.com/). I've seen 3B2 do Arabic, and I've seen | 3B2 do Japanese, but I don't know whether it's Unicode-enabled. What I heard some months ago was that they were working on a Unicode-enabled version. Whether it is

Re: SGML (or XML) Unicode-enabled publishing tools

2000-10-13 Thread Mark Leisher
Patrick As an alternative, we are looking into using FrameMaker+SGML Patrick which I believe does not support Unicode nor Arabic. If someone Patrick has some experience using FrameMaker+SGML in a multilingal Patrick set-up, I would love to hear from him. More specifically,

Re: unihan.txt kJHJ field

2000-10-13 Thread John Jenkins
On Thursday, October 12, 2000, at 06:22 PM, Thomas Chan wrote: In the version of the unihan.txt file distributed with Unicode 3.0, there is an undocumented field called "kJHJ" with a few thousand records. What does this refer to? Oops. That should have been filtered out. It's an internal,

Mail list archive

2000-10-13 Thread Doug Ewell
O great Sarasvati, I come humbly before Your Excellency to inquire whether (and when) an updated mail archive file might be forthcoming. The last time we were graced with such a file was last June. I realize there have been great FTP problems since that time that may have thwarted your

Re: Giga Character Set: Anything besides noise

2000-10-13 Thread Doug Ewell
Frank da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have the book ["The Black Hole"] any more, so I can't check this myself, but I wonder if (unlike "Hamlet" :-) that book could be completely encoded in Unicode... Have we figured out yet what part of "Hamlet" the Giga people claim cannot be

Re: Giga Character Set: Anything besides noise

2000-10-13 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Thats okay. Even if it could be. most Klingon speakers would not understand it anyway. :-) michka Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Michael Everson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: Mail list archive

2000-10-13 Thread John Cowan
Mark Davis wrote: It is described on http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/distlist.html BTW, O Divine and Radiant Effulgency, there is an error on that page. Rules are breached. It is babies who are breeched. -- There is / one art || John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] no

Re: ISO 10646-1:2000 now available

2000-10-13 Thread Ken Lunde
All, I ordered two paper copies and one PDF copy (on a CD-ROM), and when my order arrived yesterday, I received three CD-ROMs. When I inquired to ISO about this error, they replied by telling me that ISO 10646-1:2000 is available only in PDF. But, their ordering system makes a distinction

[OT] Mumbles of Earth

2000-10-13 Thread Becker, Joseph
Perhaps you remember that the Voyager spacecraft carried a gold phonograph record with greetings in 55 languages for the spacepersons out there. The individual audio clips of those "Murmurs of Earth" are nicely posted on the "Languages" link under:

utf-8 != latin-1

2000-10-13 Thread Steven R. Loomis
Here's a gotcha story .. Someone was working on documentation files in XML. The PDF generator all of a sudden started choking, complaining that there was "Illegal character U+DC73" somewhere in the late stages of PDF generation. Well, the low surrogate certainly didn't belong there. Software

Re: utf-8 != latin-1

2000-10-13 Thread Doug Ewell
"Steven R. Loomis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happened was that the sequence AD 63 61 73 was interpreted as U+E54E U+DC73.. Why? As an illegal UTF-8 sequence, it shouldn't be interpreted as anything. John Cowan's "utf" perl script (which carries the appropriate disclaimers about no

Re: Giga Character Set: Nothing but noise

2000-10-13 Thread Doug Ewell
John Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have we figured out yet what part of "Hamlet" the Giga people claim cannot be encoded in Unicode? I had to do some head scratching on that one. I finally figured out that it was meant rhetorically. Would the inability to encode Hamlet be acceptable?