Stability problems with Arial Unicode MS Font

2001-03-13 Thread pierre vaures
Mrs. Mr. We use the Font "Arial Unicode MS" version 0.84 and version 0.86 with windows NT4 on PC Pentium 450 MHZ. Sometimes, usually when a locking screen occurs, the font is lost. Meaning, instead of characters, squares appear on the GUI. Any hint, clues about this problem will be very

RE: Arabic Script.

2001-03-13 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Nidhal Zarrad wrote: Dear Madam/Sir I hope you would help me with the following problem: I am trying to write a program that displays Arabic words in DOS mode (Win32 independent). To achieve this task I using C++ (non-visula). I converted Arabic TTF fonts into CHR fonts. When I run the

RE: Stability problems with Arial Unicode MS Font

2001-03-13 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Pierre Vaures wrote: We use the Font "Arial Unicode MS" version 0.84 and version 0.86 with windows NT4 on PC Pentium 450 MHZ. Sometimes, usually when a locking screen occurs, the font is lost. Meaning, instead of characters, squares appear on the GUI. I think I fixed this installing

RE: Stability problems with Arial Unicode MS Font

2001-03-13 Thread Hart, Edwin F.
NT 4.0, Service Pack 5 included fixes to provide better support for the larger fonts, like Arial Unicode, and several Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts. Service Pack 6a incorporates Service Pack 5. However, I understand that Windows 2000 Professional has better support for large fonts than

Re: Stability problems with Arial Unicode MS Font

2001-03-13 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Hart, Edwin F." [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I understand that Windows 2000 Professional has better support for large fonts than Windows NT SP 5 or SP 6a. Yes, they pretty much nailed the font cache corruption bugs pretty definitively. The NT4 service pack(s) just made the limit a

RE: Bidi/Hebrew Identifiers

2001-03-13 Thread Cathy Wissink
This information should go to the Nameprep group (there are 4 of us from the UTC who are also participating in this group) (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks in advance for your feedback. Cathy -Original Message- From: Jonathan Rosenne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March

Indic Scripts Page

2001-03-13 Thread James E. Agenbroad
Tuesday, March 13, 2001 Those interested in Indic and related scripts might want to consult: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.html [Thats a tilde before malaiya] Not all the links from it are operational but many are. Regards,

RE: Unicode market acceptance

2001-03-13 Thread Suzanne M. Topping
-Original Message- From: Tex Texin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] We have estimates for (human) language usages on the web, its too bad there isn't an estimate for when Unicode will dominate. You would think that you could project out some rough timeline for when Unicode crosses over

RE: Unicode market acceptance

2001-03-13 Thread Hart, Edwin F.
I believe that you are asking (1) when will most of the products be enabled for Unicode (I assume a fairly high implementation level, but not necessarily every script)? (2) when will most of the data that people use be encoded in Unicode? In 1993, I speculated that initial products would

NISO creates OpenURL standard committee

2001-03-13 Thread Mark Leisher
I don't have time to keep track of this, but it might be worth keeping a Unicode eye on the process. http://www.sfxit.com/OpenURL http://www.niso.org - Mark Leisher Times are bad. Children no

Re: Updates to Technical Reports

2001-03-13 Thread Jonathan Coxhead
UTR 19 paragraph D36c(a) contains a reference to 'UTF-32BE' that should read 'UTF-32', I think. /| o o o (_|/ /| (_/

RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code

2001-03-13 Thread Christopher John Fynn
John H. Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Some of the characters in Extension B are required for JIS X 0213 support, which is going to be a sine qua non in Japan within a few years. There was a push a little while ago to put these characters on the BMP for precisely this

Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-13 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Pentagrams? I haven't seen those... where are they? Hmmm... This is possibly an Italian word badly Anglicized. I just meant "musical notation". Okay. I thought perhaps there were additions to "Misc Symbols" U+2600 .. U+267F or elsewhere that I had missed. In Italian,

Re: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code

2001-03-13 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Keld surmised: On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:56:30AM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: Since the U in UTF stands for Unicode, UTF-32 cannot represent more than what Unicode encodes, which is is 1+ million code points. Otherwise, you're talking about UCS-4. But I thought that one of the latest

Re: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-13 Thread Pierpaolo BERNARDI
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Kenneth Whistler wrote: In Italian, "Pentagramma" is a musical term. Cf. "Pentagramma per voce sola", etc. Pentagramma = stave, staff (the five horizontal lines on which the notes are written) But in English, a pentagram is an occult symbol-- a pentacle (5-pointed

Re: Final letters in Hebrew and Arabic

2001-03-13 Thread Gregg Reynolds
Nick NICHOLAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: couple of questions on the final forms of letters in Hebrew and Arabic, just for the sake of comparison. (1) When a letter with a final variant appears alone --- say as a numeral, or in discussion of the letter or phoneme --- does it under any

Re: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-13 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2001-03-13 18:29:12 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But in English, a pentagram is an occult symbol-- a pentacle (5-pointed star), usually inscribed inside a circle, and associated with witchcraft, sorcery, and (by some) Satanism. See

Re: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-13 Thread Curtis Clark
At 07:50 PM 3/13/01, Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote: And no, the Unicode Standard hasn't encoded any pentagrams yet -- or hexagrams or baphomets, for that matter. Now that you mention them, someone will make a fuss over their absence. 8-) A lot of other religions managed to make it into