mailing lists or forums.

2001-05-21 Thread Sam Chapman
Does anyone have a list of other Unicode or textural programming mailing lists/forums. I think a clear indication of any related lists will be useful in targeting questions to the right audience. For instance currently I have a number of trivial programming questions concerning TrueType Fonts,

Fw: Call for contributions to new 1,000 Language Online Archive

2001-05-21 Thread James Partridge
I thought unicoders might be interested in the following announcement James -- James Partridge St Edmund Hall Oxford University -- - Original Message - From: Wladimir Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: BIDI: possible fix

2001-05-21 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Roozbeh Pournader wrote: Do you agree with me that rule W4 should be fixed to also change the type if there are NSMs over the separator? They should be counted as one I mean, so if I want to underline a separator, that underlined separator should count as one normal separator, not two.

Sarasvati/Saraswati

2001-05-21 Thread Dean A. Snyder
From: http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010520/nat21.html The Gulf of Cambay has, from time to time, revealed secret treasures in its oceanic womb. But antiquated ruins were certainly not among them. That was till two weeks ago, when a National Institute of Ocean Technology survey liner

Re: UTF-8 signature in web and email

2001-05-21 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2001-05-18 0:50:13 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People using this heuristic, who didn't really think it would work that well after the talk, have confirmed later that it actually works extremely well (and they were writing production code, not just

Re: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

2001-05-21 Thread John Jenkins
On Wednesday, April 18, 2001, at 08:10 AM, Marco Cimarosti wrote: James Kass wrote: No. The new cmap supports more than double-byte in order to access non-BMP encodings. The Glyph IDs (the number/order of the glyphs in a font) remain locked at 65536 max. Unfortunately this isn't

Re: Single Unicode Font

2001-05-21 Thread Tom Gewecke
On 04/18/2001 09:49:40 AM John Jenkins wrote: At the same time, none of the people involved in defining TrueType -- Adobe, Apple, and Microsoft -- believe that it is really a good idea to have a single font covering all of Unicode. Microsoft provides one because there has been a strong push

Re: search ignoring diacritics

2001-05-21 Thread Michael (michka) Kaplan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to specify a search option of ignore diacritics, would there be any reason not to do simply the following - normalise both data and search string - delete / ignore all characters with general category Mn Microsoft in its FoldString

RE: search ignoring diacritics

2001-05-21 Thread Yves Arrouye
Peter - normalise both data and search string - delete / ignore all Peter characters with general category Mn It worked well for us too. Someone mentionned to me once though that U+3099 and U+309A should be preserved in order not to change the meaning of words, and we do so. But

Re: mailing lists or forums.

2001-05-21 Thread Edward Cherlin
Title: Re: mailing lists or forums. At 11:19 AM +0100 5/21/01, Sam Chapman wrote: Does anyone have a list of other Unicode or textural programming mailing lists/forums. I think a clear indication of any related lists will be useful in targeting questions to the right audience. For instance

Re: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

2001-05-21 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "11 digit boy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] And look me in the eye and tell me it is not a great trick for Kanji. I mean, how many times are you going to keep making that water radical? Its not all that great of a trick as far as I am concerned, but I am glad you like it. The known world is going

Re: Single Unicode Font

2001-05-21 Thread John Jenkins
On Monday, May 21, 2001, at 03:38 PM, Tom Gewecke wrote: On 04/18/2001 09:49:40 AM John Jenkins wrote: At the same time, none of the people involved in defining TrueType -- Adobe, Apple, and Microsoft -- believe that it is really a good idea to have a single font covering all of Unicode.

Re: Unicode font

2001-05-21 Thread Rick McGowan
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Re: Single Unicode Font

2001-05-21 Thread N.R.Liwal
I think Fonts grouped by script will be more usefull and approperiate. N.R.Liwal Asiatype www.liwal.net - Original Message - From: John Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 6:40 AM Subject: Re: Single Unicode Font On Monday, May 21, 2001, at