Error in definition of "compatibility character"?

2001-10-26 Thread David Hopwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Clauses D20 and D21 of the Unicode Standard (3.0 or 3.1) read: # D20 Compatibility decomposition: the decomposition of a character that # results from recursively applying /both/ the compatibility /and/ the # canonical mappings found in the names list o

Re: origin of term caron

2001-10-26 Thread Marion Gunn
An (inebriated) American in Paris? mg Arsa 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 Engl

Re: Ext-B fonts updated

2001-10-26 Thread James Kass
Asmus Freytag wrote (2001-10-17): > > Even with a number of errata not yet corrected, the current font is a vast > improvement over the previously used TTF font (which did not contain any > glyphs at all for several hundred positions). In the meantime, John said > it all when he wrote the the id

ANSI to UTF-8 conversion

2001-10-26 Thread Marek Mahdal \(marekk\)
Hi all, please excuse me for offtopic discussion, but I am helpless by solving a problem with Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. I am developing a multi-lingual website and want to implement japanese, russian, and many other languages, which are supported by UTF-8. The japanse translator sent me th

Re: ANSI to UTF-8 conversion

2001-10-26 Thread Thierry Sourbier
Marek, > Please can somebody give me instructions how to transfer the text form from > the Example 1 to Example 2 ? Here are some tools that can help you. Read their respective documentation to get the intructions. * Uniconv from Basis Technology (http://demos.basistech.com/unicode/) * C-Kermi

Re: Error in definition of "compatibility character"?

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Davis
Yes, that is correct. A compatibility character (in the sense of D21) is a character that has a different compatibility decomposition (different than the chracter itself). We should fix the definition. Note: there are two different senses of "compatibility character": a "decomposible compatibilit

RE: converting Unicode text into Unicode codes

2001-10-26 Thread Richard Kunst
If, as Doug suggests, Vadim wants to do something like represent "'Hi' as 'U+0048 U+0069'", then the current version 1.5 of our UniEdit text editor for Windows has a handy "Copy as" feature which automates this conversion and a number of others. It permits copying any amount of selected Unicode t

An enjoyable essay about symbols

2001-10-26 Thread Michael Everson
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FW: Display problem on Windows 98 & ME

2001-10-26 Thread Magda Danish (Unicode)
-Original Message- From: Anup Pandit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Display problem Dear Sir, I am developing softwares in JAVA. Platform : Windows Me, 98, 2000, NT I want to use unicodes \u250C \u2514 and \u2502

Re: Error in definition of "compatibility character"?

2001-10-26 Thread Kenneth Whistler
David Hopwood said: > I think the correct definition of a compatibility character is a > character with a compatibility decomposition that differs from its > canonical decomposition (i.e. NFKC(c) != NFC(c)). Am I right? Actually, what you mean here is NFKD(c) != NFD(c), which is implicitly what

Collation Charts

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Davis
I am regenerating the collation charts on www.unicode.org, with a somewhat different format than the old ones. New draft charts are on http://www.unicode.org/charts/uca/ Comments are welcome. Mark

Re: Error in definition of "compatibility character"?

2001-10-26 Thread David Hopwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Kenneth Whistler wrote: > David Hopwood said: > > > I think the correct definition of a compatibility character is a > > character with a compatibility decomposition that differs from its > > canonical decomposition (i.e. NFKC(c) != NFC(c)). Am I right? > > Ac

Re: Error in definition of "compatibility character"?

2001-10-26 Thread Kenneth Whistler
David Hopwood wrote: > > First of all, as Mark pointed out, there are two quite distinct > > usages of the term in the standard currently. > > > > 1. (decomposition) compatibility character > > > > That is what D21 is about, and is derived on the basis of > > the presence or absence of comp