Re: UnicodeChinese

2001-05-09 Thread Charlie Jolly
The PinYin IME with Windows 2000 allows you to input traditional caharacters. Charlie K International - Original Message - From: Dr. Christoph Kleine To: UnicodeList Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 5:24 PM Subject: UnicodeChinese Since this is my first message to the

Persian letters Kaf and Heh with Yeh above

2001-05-09 Thread Vladimir Ivanov
Persian letter Kaf 06A9 (entered from Persian keyboard in Word 2000 or Word XP under Windows 2000 or Whistler Beta 2 Build 2462) seems to be handled like a delimiter. If you try to select the whole word KETA:B (see Attachment, Line 1) by double clicking, only last three letters could be

Re: Persian letters Kaf and Heh with Yeh above

2001-05-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
This is probably better directed to Microsoft then to the Unicode List (since its really not a Unicode issue but it is obviously a Microsoft one!) but there are plenty of MS people who can take the ball and run with it. For fonts, neither Times New Roman nor Tahoma is all that stellar for

Re: UnicodeChinese

2001-05-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: Charlie Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] The PinYin IME with Windows 2000 allows you to input traditional caharacters. And of course, this suggests the real answer here if you want full multilingual support and you are on a platform that does not support this (such as Windows ME) -- upgrade. :-)

Farsi issues (was Re: Persian letters Kaf and Heh with Yeh above)

2001-05-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: Roozbeh Pournader [EMAIL PROTECTED] I really hope that all the problems of Microsoft Persian keyboard gets fixed in the shipping version of XP. Well, good luck on this one. With Beta 2 out, its really unlikely that you will see a change at this point in Windows, if it has not already

Re: Characters used in programming languages (was: Re: Word, Asian characters, ...)

2001-05-09 Thread Antoine Leca
I agree with what Doug said. However, there is a point where I can nit pick! Doug Ewell wrote: platform's character set support, and you have to backslash-escape one of the question marks in a literal string that contains ?? if you don't want any surprises. Well, there is no choice here:

Re: Characters used in programming languages (was: Re: Word, Asian characters, ...)

2001-05-09 Thread Antoine Leca
#1. Commonly used symbols *must* be directly available on virtually all #Latin-script keyboards, not just by typing convoluted dead-key or #Alt-sequences. # We need more shift and shift lock keys so that more than ASCII can be done from a keyboard. Well, OTOH I highly dislike when a

Re: Farsi issues

2001-05-09 Thread Edward Cherlin
At 5:47 AM -0700 5/9/01, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: [snip] I don't know the official MS story on Farsi support for XP and beyond, but I have to believe that the unavailability of Farsi's single most compelling market has to have a negative impact on priorities. Wouldn't you agree? The