Re: Time Intervals

2001-01-25 Thread Mark Davis
Yes, some date calculations are easier that way. But in reference to what are you saying this? Mark - Original Message - From: "Carl W. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 07:35 Subject: RE: Time Intervals Mark, Date calcul

off-topic overview of standards

2001-01-25 Thread Tex Texin
Is anyone aware of good articles, documents, or books, that provide a good overview of standards for the software or IT industry and perhaps describes the (some?) relationship between all of the standards. It would be good if there was some discussion in the material of the benefits that standard

RE: Rational

2001-01-25 Thread Ted Peck
We're using Visual Test on one of our Unicode projects. I asked the QA engineers about it, and this is what I learned: We're currently working with Rational Visual Test 6.5 which indeed has multibyte character support. To confirm this, we wrote two short executables with a UI, one that was MBCS

OFF TOPIC Re: Sarasvati

2001-01-25 Thread Suzanne Topping
- Original Message - From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sarasvati does not receive 30 million hits this day. > > You must be thinking of someone else... > > Oh, not the *website*, the *river*. I heard an interesting story about this festival yesterday, which focused on the lost

Re: Radical Index online? (was Re: Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK))

2001-01-25 Thread rscook
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Doug Schiffer wrote: > Kenneth Whistler wrote: > > > > > > > I cannot check now if these characters are included in Unicode as I don't > > > > > have TUS handy in this moment. > > > > > > > > http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/u2.html (The Online Edition) > > > > > > >

Re: Sarasvati

2001-01-25 Thread John Cowan
> Sarasvati does not receive 30 million hits this day. > You must be thinking of someone else... Oh, not the *website*, the *river*. See http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/25/world/25INDI.html , specifically the sixth paragraph. (Free registration required.) -- There is / one art || J

RE: Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK)

2001-01-25 Thread Thomas Chan
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote: > The table I already mentioned (btw, the dictionary is the Xiandai Hanyu > Cidian) arrives at element 109. > > The reported pronunciations for elements 105-109 are: du4, xi3, bo1, hei1, > mai4. Those sound like they are based on the 1997 IUPAC rec

RE: Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK)

2001-01-25 Thread Vinit Bhatt
I appreciate the email list but i don't comprehend much and i don't need it now. How can i unscribe from this list. Thanks and regards, Vinit Bhatt     > -Original Message- > From: Ienup Sung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 4:17 PM > To: Unicode List

Re: Radical Index online? (was Re: Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK))

2001-01-25 Thread Doug Schiffer
Kenneth Whistler wrote: > > > > > I cannot check now if these characters are included in Unicode as I don't > > > > have TUS handy in this moment. > > > > > > http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/u2.html (The Online Edition) > > > > > > and > > > > > > http://www.unicode.org/charts/draftunico

Sarasvati

2001-01-25 Thread John Cowan
How is Her Divine Effulgency holding up today under the impact of thirty million visitors? -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / l

Re: Unicode 3.1: IDS and ZW(N)J

2001-01-25 Thread John Jenkins
On Thursday, January 25, 2001, at 08:55 AM, John Cowan wrote: > Certainly. But what if you want to display the content of Figure 10.8 > (p. 270) in such a font? In that case, you can use ZWNJ to break up the > ligature. The first example could be written as U+4E95,U+200C,U+86D9>, which canno

Re: Unicode 3.1: IDS and ZW(N)J

2001-01-25 Thread John Cowan
Mark Davis wrote: > It doesn't add any value to insert joiners. Just add the IDS itself to the > font table. Certainly. But what if you want to display the content of Figure 10.8 (p. 270) in such a font? In that case, you can use ZWNJ to break up the ligature. The first example could be writt

Re: Radical Index online? (was Re: Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK))

2001-01-25 Thread Richard Cook
John Jenkins wrote: > > On Thursday, January 25, 2001, at 03:14 AM, Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote: > > > I was talking about the index for the hanzi's ordered by radical+strokes > > which can be found at the end of the book, since I wanted to check > > whether > > high numbered elements were there. I

Re: Radical Index online? (was Re: Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK))

2001-01-25 Thread John Jenkins
On Thursday, January 25, 2001, at 03:14 AM, Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote: > I was talking about the index for the hanzi's ordered by radical+strokes > which can be found at the end of the book, since I wanted to check > whether > high numbered elements were there. I know the look and pronunciations

Rational

2001-01-25 Thread Peter_Constable
I've been asked by our testers to find out about Unicode support in Rational's Visual Test. Can anyone tell me about its ability to enter / read Unicode strings in text fields of an app? (I see that Rational is an Associate member, so I'm assuming there must be somebody from Rational subscribed t

RE: Time Intervals

2001-01-25 Thread Carl W. Brown
Mark, Date calculations are much easier if you start on a March 1 date such as March 1 1900. This is becase the months are 31,30,31,30,31 31,30,31,30,31 31,xx Putting February last makes leap year calculations easier. Carl -Original Message- From: Mark Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK)

2001-01-25 Thread Antoine Leca
Erik Garre's wrote: > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >There is no reason the Chinese or anyone else cannot write this [chemical > >elements] with LATIN > >CAPITAL LETTER O and SUBSCRIPT TWO. > > If this is true, why was aproved the U+338E? Because it

Re: Radical Index online? (was Re: Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK))

2001-01-25 Thread Pierpaolo BERNARDI
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Richard Cook wrote: > > > > > I could not find the radical index. Has this been put online too? > > > > > > > > No. The CJK radical index was generated and printed with custom > > > > > > > > Um, I think I misunderstood. What Radical index are you talking about? > The one fo