[unicode] Re: Request for information - Subset of Unicode character set

2001-03-26 Thread Otto Stolz
Am 2001-03-18 um 21:50 h UCT hat Carl W. Brown geschrieben: Since you appear to be targeting the Windows platform, have you considered using the mlang font linking? Please, don't use a proprietary HTML extension! The idea of the WWW is that the offers can be properly interpreted on any

[unicode] Re: Helpful info

2001-03-26 Thread Otto Stolz
I had written: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:45:18 -0500 (EST), Listar [EMAIL PROTECTED] happily sent me a list of 686 subscribers to the Unicode list. On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:52:47 -0600, Mike Ayers wrote: Otto, could you try again, please? I have repeated the test, and I don't get the

[unicode] FW: Arabic display problems

2001-03-26 Thread Marco Cimarosti
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 08.37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Arabic display problems Dear Sir/Ms, We are one of Set Top Box manufacture in Korea. We have some problems in display Arabic fonts on TV via our

[unicode] Re: Persian Alphabet

2001-03-26 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Vladimir Ivanov wrote: The result of sorting is the same and it is incorrect: hich vAzhe yAd kArgar This looks like a *binary* sort. If you consider that "y" is probably U+06CC (ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH) and "k" is probably U+06AA (ARABIC LETTER SWASH KAF), whose code is greater than the

[unicode] Re: Request for information - Subset of Unicode character set

2001-03-26 Thread Carl W. Brown
Otto, The most flexible way to implement the feature is with a control. But that requires that browsers enable downloading of controls. This way you can support browsers like Netscape. On Unix you can also link fonts but the approach is very different. I suspect that there is probably some

[unicode] Re: removing compromises from unicode (WCode)

2001-03-26 Thread James E. Agenbroad
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jonathan Coxhead wrote: It would be very entertaining to do the same job with the ideographs (down to the radical level) and count the number of atoms. I suspect the resulting "character set" would contain less than 2000 atoms altogether. Please do feel free

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-26 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Mark Leisher wrote: Those whom can filter their mail also can alter the subject line easily with, for example, small perl script. Sean Since this is so easy, could you send me one? % perl -ne 's/\[unicode\]// if (/^Subject:/);' messagefile I'd really need a thing like that but,

[unicode] Re: removing compromises from unicode (WCode)

2001-03-26 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Jonathan Coxhead wrote: A while ago, I tried to perform a similar exercise: work out which characters in Unicode are "atomic", [...] The result is at http://www.doves.demon.co.uk/atomic.html. I find that it is a very interesting work. You are too humble if you consider it just a joke.

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Leisher
Marco I'd really need a thing like that but, unfortunately, I don't sit Marco in front of a powerful Linux box with Perl and all the rest. Marco Does anyone have a solution for MS Outlook under Windows NT? Indeed. The inability to do simple, obvious things in these programs is

[unicode] Re: removing compromises from unicode (WCode)

2001-03-26 Thread Marco Cimarosti
I wrote: I am afraid that it would be a very long work, as entertaining as cooking stuffed arms. Ooops! I meant "stuffed ants" ("fourmies farcis"?). The macabre image was totally unintentional. _ Marco

[unicode] Re: removing compromises from unicode (WCode)

2001-03-26 Thread Suzanne M. Topping
-Original Message- From: Marco Cimarosti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I wrote: I am afraid that it would be a very long work, as entertaining as cooking stuffed arms. Ooops! I meant "stuffed ants" ("fourmies farcis"?). The macabre image was totally unintentional. I didn't

[unicode] Re: Persian Alphabet

2001-03-26 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: hich vAzhe yAd kArgar This looks like a *binary* sort. If you consider that "y" is probably U+06CC (ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH) and "k" is probably U+06AA (ARABIC LETTER SWASH KAF), whose code is greater than the code of any "Basic

[unicode] Unicode 3.1 Standard Annexes

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Davis
The Unicode Standard Annexes that will be part of the Unicode Standard, Version 3.1 are now available in their final form. See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/ for a list of these annexes, including the new UAX #27 (which specifies the contents of Unicode 3.1). The final release of