Old Persian

2001-04-02 Thread Vladimir Ivanov
In James Kass' Plane One font Code2001.ttf (built according to Unicode 3.1 standard and given for testing at http://home.att.net/~jameskass/code2001.htm) one can find surrogates for Old Persian Cuneiform signs. Surrogate U+D800DF90, that must represent sound "di", has 3 short horizontal and

Re: Old Persian

2001-04-02 Thread James Kass
Vladimir Ivanov wrote: In James Kass' Plane One font Code2001.ttf (built according to Unicode 3.1 standard and given for testing at ... one can find surrogates for Old Persian Cuneiform signs. Old Persian Cuneiform is not part of Unicode 3.1 The code points were extrapolated from

Re: Word and Version 3.1 characters

2001-04-02 Thread Peter_Constable
On 03/31/2001 05:31:59 PM unicode-bounce wrote: I, too, have been playing with the new Plane 1 characters of Unicode 3.1. I can use WordPad, per the instructions people have given here, and things work as advertised. When I try it in Word 2000 under Win2000, however, I find the following: a.

RE: Word and Version 3.1 characters

2001-04-02 Thread Chris Pratley
Word2000 (designed in 1997-98) was not designed to handle surrogate pairs. The two surrogates combine to display correctly when running under Win2000, but Word2000 believes there are two characters there, so it advances two character widths. I believe we may have tweaked the spacing in the SR1 or

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-04-02 Thread Peter_Constable
On 03/30/2001 10:10:22 PM unicode-bounce wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The historic notion of Unicode as a uniformly 16-bit encoding has been in principle obsolete for a while, but now it is also obsolete in practical terms. Actually, I think *that* statement is a bit premature, still. It

Re: Unicode in PDF files

2001-04-02 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
-- "David J. Perry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rumored to have mumbled on Freitag, 30. Mrz 2001 17:13 Uhr -0500 regarding Unicoode in PDF files: But, as best I can tell, Acrobat actually creates a Type 3 font from my TrueType outline, rather than using the TT font. This prints OK but looks