Re: casefold o NFC = NFC o casefold?

2001-10-30 Thread David Hopwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Mark Davis wrote: Sadly, case mapping does not preserve any normalization formats under a character-by-character transformation. The simplest example is the string \u1FB2\u0300. A character-by-character titlecase conversion produces: \u1FBA\u0345\u0300.

Re: Inuktitut, Cree, Ojibwe input methods?

2001-10-30 Thread Peter_Constable
On 10/29/2001 11:00:27 PM Andrew Cunningham wrote: I'd be interested in seeing they keyman file you generated for Eastern Cree. It's still a work in progress since I'm waiting to hear from the people at KNet who provided the layout to get some explanations (there were some ambiguities). At

Re: FW: Private Use Area - Building Combining Classes

2001-10-30 Thread Peter_Constable
-Original Message- From: Anbarasu R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Private Use Area - Building Combining Classes I had a problem in Glyph Substitution in using characters created in Private Use Area. I tried the

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Enabling and testing surrogates

2001-10-30 Thread Alan Wood
Carl Brown kindly provided a link with details of enabling surrogates, which has now moved to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/unicod e_192r.asp I don't have access to Windows 2000 or XP yet, but I have just added test pages for Old Italic, Gothic, Deseret,

Re: casefold o NFC = NFC o casefold?

2001-10-30 Thread Mark Davis
I did choose a bad example, but as you say, normalization is not preserved in the way you wanted. Yes, the reason the iota subscript has has a special value is to put it at the end. As to whether text should be normalized before or after casefolding (or other case transformations) or both: I'd

YO, ho ho, and a bottle of vodka

2001-10-30 Thread Michael Everson
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Re: FW: Private Use Area - Building Combining Classes

2001-10-30 Thread Peter_Constable
James: Uniscribe will provide glyph substitutions for glyphs encoded in the PUA under certain conditions. The Uniscribe looks for glyphs in a certain range based on the script, so if the first glyph ID in the GSUB or GPOS table is not within that script's range (i.e., it's in PUA or not

RE: Enabling and testing surrogates

2001-10-30 Thread John McConnell
Windows XP has some modest improvements for surrogate support. The info may not be on MSDN yet, so here's a summary: - there are just two optional language packs (one for East Asian and one for the rest). If either is installed, usp10.dll (Uniscribe) is installed and you'll get surrogate

Re: FW: Private Use Area - Building Combining Classes

2001-10-30 Thread James Kass
Peter Constable wrote: -Original Message- From: Anbarasu R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Private Use Area - Building Combining Classes I had a problem in Glyph Substitution in using characters created in

RE: YO, ho ho, and a bottle of vodka

2001-10-30 Thread Hietaniemi Jarkko (NRC/Boston)
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Re: YO, ho ho, and a bottle of vodka

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Re: FW: Private Use Area - Building Combining Classes

2001-10-30 Thread James Kass
Peter Constable wrote: It's not entirely clear to me what you are conveying, but I think you are talking in terms of OpenType lookups, in which case these are all operating on glyph IDs and not character codes. Uniscribe must first operate on character codes. In the process you're

Re: FW: Private Use Area - Building Combining Classes

2001-10-30 Thread Peter_Constable
On 10/30/2001 03:44:29 PM James Kass wrote: If you start with something like E001, 09CD, 09A4 , Uniscribe will not operate on E001, because the Glyph ID for E001 doesn't fall in any supported script range. No, it's because the *character code* doesn't fall in a supported script range. Glyph

Re: YO, ho ho, and a bottle of vodka

2001-10-30 Thread Wm Seán Glen
How about a monument to Spurious Rufus who came up with the letter G Seán - Original Message - From: Marco Cimarosti To: 'Michael Everson' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 October, 2001 10:39 Subject: RE: YO, ho ho, and a bottle of vodka Oh, well, we

Fwd: Re: Inuktitut, Cree, Ojibwe input methods?

2001-10-30 Thread Alain LaBonté
Relayed FYI. Alain Kona Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:52:54 -0500 Subject: Re: Inuktitut, Cree, Ojibwe input methods? From: Ray Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alain Labonté [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reality Check! It would be impossible to have a single

Thaana symbol identification

2001-10-30 Thread Mark Leisher
Working through the Thaana glyph set from the Haveeru (http://www.haveeru.com) Faseyha typeface, two extra symbols are available. Looking at a snapshot of some glyphs from the font (http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/faseyha.gif), the glyph at 0x6F appears to be a non-spacing version of RAA (U+0783),

Re: FW: Private Use Area - Building Combining Classes

2001-10-30 Thread James Kass
Peter Constable wrote: On 10/30/2001 03:44:29 PM James Kass wrote: If you start with something like E001, 09CD, 09A4 , Uniscribe will not operate on E001, because the Glyph ID for E001 doesn't fall in any supported script range. No, it's because the *character code* doesn't fall in a

Re: YO, ho ho, and a bottle of vodka

2001-10-30 Thread John H. Jenkins
Just to swerve the topic of conversation here, in the E for effort department, what about a statue to the Emperor Claudius for at least trying to add letters to the Latin alphabet? And does anybody know what the letters *were*? == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thaana symbol identification

2001-10-30 Thread Mark Leisher
James 0x40 appears to be U+0040 (@) in a Thaana style. 0x6F is OBOFILI, James U+07AE. Thanks! Time for new glasses and more caffeine :-) - Mark Leisher Rights surrendered are not

Re: YO, ho ho, and a bottle of vodka

2001-10-30 Thread John Cowan
John H. Jenkins scripsit: Just to swerve the topic of conversation here, in the E for effort department, what about a statue to the Emperor Claudius for at least trying to add letters to the Latin alphabet? And does anybody know what the letters *were*? No problem. There were three