Re: Ethiopian Time Locale Demonstrator

2000-11-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I discovered the wonderful "FreeType" tools this last weekend that > convert TT strings to images (PNG in this case) on the fly. Which tools are you talking about? Werner

Re: Data entry in chosen language

2000-11-20 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Ah, I see. It was your mention of "HTML textfield element" that made me think browser. Well, if you have a Unicode application, then your app can either support any language the user switches to themselves, or APIs like ActivateKeyboardLayout and LoadKeyboardLayout can be used by your app to do t

Re: Data entry in chosen language

2000-11-20 Thread nikita k
The appplcation is for windows 9x/nt platforms and is a client-server application. s the browser issues are not present. Thanx, Nikita K --- "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The answer to this question would literally be > different for every single > browser and every sing

Re: History of Kazakh characters in Unicode

2000-11-20 Thread Kairat A. Rakhim
Carl, Latin script are used for Turkish, Azeri, Uzbek, Turkmen and Crimean Tatars languages. Tatars will adopt Latin during 2001-2011. In Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, discussions about transition to Latin have taken place but without real decisions. As far as I know, only Turkish and new Azeri alph

Re: Data entry in chosen language

2000-11-20 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
The answer to this question would literally be different for every single browser and every single target platform. Can you be a little more specific about where you would be wanting it to run? michka a new book on internationalization in VB at http://www.i18nWithVB.com/ - Original Message

Data entry in chosen language

2000-11-20 Thread nikita k
Hi, I have to develop a client-server application in which the user can enter data in a language depending on his profile. The user can change to any other language supported by the system while using the application. 1. Is the method by which depending on the language chosen, the keyboard driver

Re: Chinese : Pin Yin characters

2000-11-20 Thread Thomas Chan
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tom Emerson wrote: > > Is there any set of characters for writing chinese's Pin Yin with > > the = differents tone ? I suppose so, I have the Unibook program and > > I have some difficulties to determine this set of characters. > > The tone marks themselves can be found at >

Re: Chinese : Pin Yin characters

2000-11-20 Thread Tom Emerson
> Is there any set of characters for writing chinese's Pin Yin with > the = differents tone ? I suppose so, I have the Unibook program and > I have some difficulties to determine this set of characters. The tone marks themselves can be found at U+02C9 MODIFIER LETTER MACRON (1st tone) U+02CA MOD

Re: FW: Using Unicode with e-mail

2000-11-20 Thread Ričardas Čepas
.. > > Am I right to be pessimistic, or is there some great secret that will allow > me to use Unicode in e-mail and have my characters look the same when they > arrive as when I sent them? There is no problem using Unicode (UTF-8) in e-mail as long as program used to read message at rec

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:36:08AM -0800, Mark Davis wrote: > The UTC will be using the terms "supplementary code points", "supplementary > characters" and "supplementary planes". The term it is "deprecating with > extreme prejudice" is "surrogate characters". > > See http://www.unicode.org/gloss

Re: FW: Using Unicode with e-mail

2000-11-20 Thread R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein]
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote: >For example, here are some Croatian letters that look correct as I compose >this e-mail (using Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Arial CE font): >Cc (upper and lower case C with / accent above) >Cc (upper and lower case C with v accent above) >Dd (uppe

Chinese : Pin Yin characters

2000-11-20 Thread Bailly Manoël
Is there any set of characters for writing chinese's Pin Yin with the differents tone ? I suppose so, I have the Unibook program and I have some difficulties to determine this set of characters. Thanks a lot for your answers

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Antoine Leca
Please keep in mind my sidepoint: > Antoine Leca wrote: > > > Please note that I left aside UTF-16, because I am not clear > > if 16-bit are adequate or not to code UTF-16 in wchar_t (in other words, if > > wchar_t can be a multiwide encoding). Marco Cimarosti wrote [with minor editing to keep i

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Mark Davis
The UTC will be using the terms "supplementary code points", "supplementary characters" and "supplementary planes". The term it is "deprecating with extreme prejudice" is "surrogate characters". See http://www.unicode.org/glossary/ for more information. Mark - Original Message - From: "

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread addison
Hi Jani, I dunno. I oversimplified in that statement about exposing vs. hiding. ICU "hides" the facts about the Unicode implementation in macros, specifically a next and previous character macro and various other fillips. If you look very closely at the function (method) prototypes you can see t

FW: Using Unicode with e-mail

2000-11-20 Thread Magda Danish (Unicode)
-Original Message- From: Scott, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 12:16 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Using Unicode with e-mail Is there any hope for using Unicode in e-mail? Here's an example to illustrate. (I know you aren't going to solve my part

[totally OT] Unicode terminology (was Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode])

2000-11-20 Thread Marco Cimarosti
David Starner wrote: > Sent: 20 Nov 2000, Mon 16.18 > To: Unicode List > Subject: Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode] > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:54:27AM -0800, Michael (michka) > Kaplan wrote: > > From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > the Surrograte (aka "Astral") Pl

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread John Cowan
David Starner wrote: > I chose Astral Planes for perceived grace > and beauty. Thank you! -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~c

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
I think the issue is more one of the semantic meaning that terms like astral, imaginary, irrational, or other such terms bring to the table? Refusing to potentially insult the people who place importance on the characters that will be encoded on places on than the BMP is a thing of grace and beau

Ethiopian Time Locale Demonstrator

2000-11-20 Thread Daniel Yacob
Greetings, I discovered the wonderful "FreeType" tools this last weekend that convert TT strings to images (PNG in this case) on the fly. I didn't expect it to work with UTF8 but whoah and behold it does! I've applied it to the LibEth Perl bindings to demonstrate time formatting options under Et

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:54:27AM -0800, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > the Surrograte (aka "Astral") Planes. > > I believe the UTC has deprecated the term Astral planes with extreme > prejudice. HTH! The UTC has chosen not use the term Astra

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > the Surrograte (aka "Astral") Planes. I believe the UTC has deprecated the term Astral planes with extreme prejudice. HTH! michka a new book on internationalization in VB at http://www.i18nWithVB.com/

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Antoine Leca wrote: > Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > Actually, C does have different types for characters within > strings and for > > characters in isolation. > > That is not my point of view. > There is a special case for 'H', that holds int type rather > than char, for > backward compatibility reas

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread Antoine Leca
Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > Actually, C does have different types for characters within strings and for > characters in isolation. That is not my point of view. There is a special case for 'H', that holds int type rather than char, for backward compatibility reasons (such as because the first ver