Re: Sanskrit Transliteration Characters

2001-02-19 Thread Valeriy E. Ushakov
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 19:47:43 -0800, Krishna Desikachary wrote: > a) There is an internationally accepted set of extra chars that are > included in Roman (Latin) script to transacribe Sanskrit texts in > Roman script. Does a Unicode standard exist for these characters? > Were these ever standa

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in

2001-02-19 Thread Tex Texin
Guys, Can we put this thread on a constructive footing? I am sure there is lots of outdated and/or incorrect information out there and I would like to preempt its being identified via numerous emails here. If the belief is there are misperceptions that need to be corrected, how should the proble

Sanskrit Transliteration Characters

2001-02-19 Thread Krishna Desikachary
Hello,   I have a two-fold question:   a) There is an internationally accepted set of extra chars that are included in Roman (Latin) script to transacribe Sanskrit texts in Roman script. Does a Unicode standard exist for these characters? Were these ever standardises even outside the realm of

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-19 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:42:41PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A few days ago I said there was a "widespread belief" that Unicode is a > 16-bit-only character set that ends at U+. A corollary is that the > supplementary characters ranging from U+1 to U+10 are either > little-

Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-19 Thread DougEwell2
A few days ago I said there was a "widespread belief" that Unicode is a 16-bit-only character set that ends at U+. A corollary is that the supplementary characters ranging from U+1 to U+10 are either little-known or perceived to belong to ISO/IEC 10646 only, not to Unicode. At lea

Re: Unicode collation algorithm - interpretation]

2001-02-19 Thread Jim Melton
Mike, Thanks for your response. I find myself disappointed that there isn't more participation in this discussion (from others than you and I), but it will undoubtedly come ;^) At 05:05 PM 02/11/2001 + Sunday, J M Sykes wrote: >I think you misunderstand me. The "maximum level" I was refer

Internationalization meeting

2001-02-19 Thread Beth Kaseman
Hi, I'm Beth Kaseman. I work with the Localization Institute. We are putting together a Roundtable for people in Internationalization on 7-9 March 2001 near San Diego, CA. The Advisory Board includes Asmus Freytag, Ken Lunde, Bill Hall, and others in the Unicode community. The agenda includes Unic

Re: Hebrew (was RE: Unicode Transcriptions)

2001-02-19 Thread David Gallardo
Netscape currently (version 6.01) does not support bidi on any platform. - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Rosenne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:24 AM Subject: RE: Hebrew (was RE: Unicode Transcri

RE: Hebrew (was RE: Unicode Transcriptions)

2001-02-19 Thread Jonathan Rosenne
IE for MAC does not include bidi. Jony > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 3:46 PM > To: Unicode List > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Hebrew (was RE: Unicode Transcriptions) > > > > On 02/15/2001 10:49:00 AM RO

Hebrew (was RE: Unicode Transcriptions)

2001-02-19 Thread Peter_Constable
On 02/15/2001 10:49:00 AM ROBERT HODGSON wrote: >I would very much appreciate being in touch with other colleagues who have >had experience in displaying Hebrew characters with Unicode. Of interest to >us would be experiences in >1) browser selection >2) operating systems selection The

Re: remapping devanagari

2001-02-19 Thread Peter_Constable
On 02/15/2001 01:43:40 PM Pam Lothspeich wrote: >I am a new user of unicode for devanagari (Hindi) in Microsoft Word. I am >very impressed with this font, but I'm wondering if there is a way to remap >the keyboard, so that I don't have to use shortcut keys which require >multiple keystrokes in

RE: New BMP characters (was Re: [very OT] Documentation: beyon

2001-02-19 Thread Marco Cimarosti
I wrote: > Can you anticipate what these new BMP characters will be? > Entire scripts or just additions to existing scripts? Joel Rees replied: > Hmm. > Deseret is a script, isn't it? (although not necessarily of very broad > application.) > And I would say the 42,710 points for additional Han

Re: Arabic MySQL Perl

2001-02-19 Thread Marco Cimarosti
George Zeigler wrote: > my company is creating sites in multiple languages with pages being created > dynamically. The words are pulled into the pages from a MySQL database. The > programs are written in Perl. Our programmers cannot figure out how to get > Arabic and Hebrew working (right ->

Re: New BMP characters (was Re: [very OT] Documentation: beyond 65

2001-02-19 Thread Joel Rees
Hi! I just signed up today after receiving a note from a fellow macperler that 3.1 (extension B) included 40,000+ new Kanji. I checked unicode.org and noted that 3.1 was in beta at last update, but that the conference period for errata had ended. (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/ver

Re: Unicode to Greek translation of Euro sign

2001-02-19 Thread Antoine Leca
Carl W. Brown wrote: > > I think that it is an issue since Greece is on of the > 12 countries that is switching to the Euro in less than 10 months. This is not really on-topic here, but Greece switched to the Euro a month and half _ago_ (on January 1st, 2001). What will happen in 10 months 1/2

Re: Myanmar questions

2001-02-19 Thread Antoine Leca
Hi William, Many thanks for your valuable help. William W.L.K wrote: > >> 1) for the "au" dependent vowel, I believe (extrapolating from the one for "o") >> the correct encoding is U+1031 U+102C U+1039. However the use of the virama >> inside of a "matra" part looks surprising to me (and it cre

Re: Arabic MySQL Perl

2001-02-19 Thread Steve Cushion
Dear George I know this is not what you asked, but if all else fails and you can find no other solution, I have found that it is quite easy to get Arabic and Hebrew letters to display in the correct fashion using the JAVA programming language. If the worst came to the worst, you could always u

New BMP characters (was Re: [very OT] Documentation: beyond 65

2001-02-19 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Kenneth Whistler wrote: > No. Unicode 3.1 has already been approved, and is in the > last stages of publication. After that, Unicode 3.2 will > appear, adding over 1000 more characters to the BMP. Can you anticipate what these new BMP characters will be? Entire scripts or just additions to existi