RE: origin of term caron

2001-10-25 Thread Alistair Vining
Asmus Freytag wrote: > > At 06:32 PM 10/24/01 -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > >The first time I encountered the term "caron" was in the eighties when > >studying the design of Adobe PostScript fonts. Not being a native English > >speaker, I simply took it for the English word for this diacritic

Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

2001-10-25 Thread Darren Morby
G. Adam Stanislav wrote on October 23: > Slovak texts always prefer > the "apostrophe" form for d, t, l, and L. We only use the other form > (the one that looks like a raised v) when we use typewriters that do not > have the "apostrophe" form but do have the caron, or when we write by > hand (it

RE: Character encoding at the prompt

2001-10-25 Thread Richard, Francois M
As a follow-up on this interesting issue, I did the following testing on Solaris 2.6: >setenv LC_ALL en_US >env LC_ALL=it.UTF-8 date giovedì, 25 ottobre 2001, 11:45:24 EDT This worked properly since Thursday is actually: giovedì in Italian and ì is U+00EC encoded as C3 AC (hexa) in Utf-8. These

Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

2001-10-25 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
At 11:40 2001-10-25 -0400, Darren Morby wrote: >Thank you; this is the clarification I was seeking. Now when our >testers complain that "this character looks wrong" I am justified >in saying "it's a typographical variant" ... at least for these >letters. You're welcome. I also have a page about

RE: Character encoding at the prompt

2001-10-25 Thread Yves Arrouye
> But: > >setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8 > >env LC_ALL=it echo > giovedì, 25 ottobre 2001, 11:45:24 EDT > > I could not understand why I get the display of the letter ì in the > en_US.UTF-8 Locale. My understanding was that the date command was > generating the message in the Italian locale (default e

Re: Character encoding at the prompt

2001-10-25 Thread Markus Scherer
On the DOS prompt of Windows NT4/2000/XP, you should be able to get 16-bit Unicode with "chcp 1". markus

Re: Character encoding at the prompt

2001-10-25 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:34:12PM -0400, Richard, Francois M wrote: > I could not understand why I get the display of the letter ì in the > en_US.UTF-8 Locale. My understanding was that the date command was > generating the message in the Italian locale (default encoding iso-8859-1) > and as a re

Re: Character encoding at the prompt

2001-10-25 Thread Jungshik Shin
Richard, Francois M wrote: > As a follow-up on this interesting issue, I did the following testing on > Solaris 2.6: > >>setenv LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8 >>env LC_ALL=it echo >> > giovedì, 25 ottobre 2001, 11:45:24 EDT > > I could not understand why I get the display of the letter ì in the > en_US.UT