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On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:17:15PM -0700, Yung-Fong Tang wrote:
> Sure Unicode defined those planes, but defining planes without defining the
>characters in it mean not too much to people. How can
> you implement case conversion, property mapping without knowing what is inside.
How do you do th
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:19:51PM -0700, Yung-Fong Tang wrote:
> how can you implement tolower(U+4ff3a) without knowing what U+4ff3a is ?
How do you support tolower (U+0220) without knowing what U+0220 is?
But conforming to the Unicode Standard still means that you don't
mess with the character
From: "Geoffrey Waigh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It shouldn't require honest-to-goodness we-were't-kidding
> see-here's-one-defined-now characters
In many cases, it did.
> for developers to slap themselves on the head
They did -- and they are slapping others around them, too.
> and start devel
Frank,
> Sure Unicode defined those planes, but defining planes
> without defining the characters in it mean not too much
> to people.
Which is exactly the complacency that Doug Ewell was warning
about. Too many people assumed that even though UTF-16 was
defined in Unicode 2.0 they could ignor
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Yung-Fong Tang wrote:
> how can you implement tolower(U+4ff3a) without knowing what U+4ff3a is ?
With a data table. One set of debugged code that handles surrogates,
composing characters, bidirectionality etc. coupled with a datafile that
gets upgraded with each release of
David Starner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:18:19PM -0700, Yung-Fong Tang wrote:
> > Markus Scherer wrote:
> >
> > > Correction: "to encode _all_ of Unicode", not just "all Unicode BMP" - GB 18030
>covers all 17 planes, not just the BMP.
> >
> > Does GB18030 DEFINED the mapping between G
Do you know where I can get the mapping table between GB18030 and Planes 1 to
16? I can only get the mapping between Plane 0 and GB18030.
Tom Emerson wrote:
> Yung-Fong Tang writes:
> > Does GB18030 DEFINED the mapping between GB18030 and the rest of 11
> > planes? I don't think so, since Unico
how can you implement tolower(U+4ff3a) without knowing what U+4ff3a is ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 2001-09-24 20:50:25 Pacific Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >> Does GB18030 DEFINED the mapping between GB18030 and the rest of 11 planes?
> >> I don't think so,
> >At the request of someone working with ICU, I regenerated a derived file
> that shows the "age" of Unicode characters -- when they came into Unicode.
> Does anyone think this might be useful to have in the UCD?<
It is definitely useful information that could go into UNIDATA. Here is a
good use
> From: Kenneth Whistler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:34 AM
> > Actually, if he's half Jamaican, I think you have to
> say "Go mon",
> > which is also the Japanese for 50,000, yes?
>
> No, actually, it is Japanese for "5th question", although
> that
Is this the same Unicode that encodes characters and not glyphs?
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Hi Rick,
RM> The hyphen & minus with umlaut exemples below look GREAT on the system I'm
RM> running right now. The umlauts are not too high, not too low, but just
RM> right. And they are perfectly centered. Unicode didn't do that; the
RM> software
Here we go again... Before everyone goes off and starts blaming Unicode
for bad rendering...
When you render a combining character sequence and it "doesn't look right"
that is not the fault of the Unicode Standard, it is the fault of your
font and/or rendering software (and the people who d
Mike,
> > $B:9=P?M(J: Kenneth Whistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> > >
> > >Go man!
> > >
>
> Actually, if he's half Jamaican, I think you have to say "Go mon",
> which is also the Japanese for 50,000, yes?
No, actually, it is Japanese for "5th question", although
that seems to be only your
Tex,
>
> ok i'll quit
>
I figured that you would drag some GIFTS (Poison) from your MIST (Manure)
ridden mind.
Carl
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Sent: den 26 september 2001 17:20
Subject: Re: Egyptian Transliteration Characters
> In a message dated 2001-09-26 8:09:18 Pacific Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >> The problem
> $B:9=P?M(J: Kenneth Whistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> $BF|;~(J: 01/09/26 2:23
> >
> >Go man!
> >
Actually, if he's half Jamaican, I think you have to say "Go mon",
which is also the Japanese for 50,000, yes?
/|/|ike
For
1. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL YOD
LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL YOD
2. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL AYIN
LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL AYIN
I strongly suspect that current diacritics (for 1) and modifier letters (for
2) are similar enough in shape to what is required that
Not if they RENDER him senseless first.
Of course, if they get caught, they might have trouble getting a lawyer
to take their CASE. (YA YA, they need a SENSITIVE one, no need to go for
the really cheap shots...) Hey, (not the hebrew letter) if they get
tried in one of the lower courts, is it a LO
In a message dated 2001-09-26 8:09:18 Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> The problem is, I have a couple of German texts that I plan to
>> transcribe, where all I need is HYPHEN WITH DIARESIS.
>
> So, you type HYPHEN or EN DASH and then COMBINING DIAERESIS ABOVE.
I think that w
At 09:13 -0500 2001-09-26, David Starner wrote:
>The problem is, I have a couple of German texts that I plan to
>transcribe, where all I need is HYPHEN WITH DIARESIS.
So, you type HYPHEN or EN DASH and then COMBINING DIAERESIS ABOVE.
--
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.ever
At 07:20 -0700 2001-09-26, Mark Davis wrote:
>2. something that looks like a right half ring with a tail egyptologists
>have represented it with something that looks like two right half rings
>stacked on top of each other.
>
>3. a capital and small glottal stop and reversed glottal stop
>
>For (2
Of your three issues:
1. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW
2. something that looks like a right half ring with a tail egyptologists
have represented it with something that looks like two right half rings
stacked on top of each other.
3. a capital and small glottal stop and reversed glottal
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:42:32AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The missing characters can be characterised as follows:
>
> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW
> LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH LINE BELOW
>
> I model these descriptions on those of 1E0E, 1E6E, 1E2A, 1E24 (at least
> insofar as
Hello One and All,
Before setting off down the path of submitting a couple of new characters I
would like to run them past you for your consideration. If I have ben blind
as a bat and these characters already exist please correct me in my error.
But first, a little context...
I am an Egyptologis
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