Re: Tags and the Private Use Area

2001-04-28 Thread John Cowan
James Kass scripsit: > This file uses characters assigned > to the Private Use Area of Unicode according to the > PUA scheme published at (URL). In order to view this > document, it will be necessary to obtain and install > the (font-name) font from (URL of font provider). > Well, this is

Re: Tags and the Private Use Area

2001-04-28 Thread James Kass
William Overington wrote: > However, there is something that I feel that the Unicode > Consortium could do, if it so wished, without violating > that rule. I suggest that the Unicode Consortium could, > if it so chooses, encode one or more regular unicode > characters together with a protoc

Re: Provenance of the Unicode Standard and of statements

2001-04-28 Thread Wm Seán Glen
I'm going to de-lurk here to respond to William. (1) Private Use Area is just that; private. I work for Boeing and we might use very technical glyphs that would only apply to the business we do. We could make a font, assign them codepoints in the PUA and use them on the Boeing intraweb and fe

Cutting to the chase (was Re: Tags and the Private Use Area)

2001-04-28 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "William Overington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 7:44 AM Subject: Re: Tags and the Private Use Area > The quote is an excerpt from a sentence. Well, you did manage to go on for quite a bit. Since you were able to pick

Re: Provenance of the Unicode Standard and of statements

2001-04-28 Thread Rick McGowan
William Overington wrote... > So, when Ken states the sentence above, is that Ken writing as a private > individual ... or Ken writing as a Technical Director > ... > ... there exists scope for considerable confusion as to the > provenance of a statement made on this list where members of the uni

RE: Invalid char display (was: Using hex numbers considered a geek attitude)

2001-04-28 Thread Carl W. Brown
Frank, I had forgotten about the H19. My son & I built one. When I no longer needed it, I put it by my youngest son's crib to play with. Could have something to do with his current technical bent. The Fujitsu format would have been better for to but it requires a sophisticated font

IDS question

2001-04-28 Thread Thomas Chan
Hi all, I've recently been using Ideographic Description Sequences to describe some Han characters that are not in Unicode 3.1, and I noticed that U+3007 is not included in the set of "UnifiedIdeographs", despite having the "ideographic" property (TUS3.0, p. 269; UAX #27, section 10.1). I unders

Re: Tags and the Private Use Area

2001-04-28 Thread William Overington
Michael Kaplan wrote: Lets consider the fact that what you are looking for is summarized at the end of your message: "I hope to gain fairly widespread agreement within the unicode user community." end quote The quote is an excerpt from a sentence. The whole sentence is as follows. The suggest

Provenance of the Unicode Standard and of statements (derives from Re: Tags and the Private Use Area)

2001-04-28 Thread William Overington
Kenneth Whistler, wrote: And there have been a couple of no-doubt frustrating responses already. end quote No, not frustrating at all. I have found it fascinating. I am seeking to participate in world class leading edge research work and the number of contributions to this thread, the variety