Re: ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚴ input methods?

2001-11-12 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: Stefan Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any IME, keyboard, or any similar utility to typing in the letters of the ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚴ, the Runic alphabet? Sorry for not mentionning it. I am using Windows 98. Hmmm. certainly nothing from MS, even in the form of drivers one could write if

Re: Is 879,309 enough?

2001-11-12 Thread Michael Everson
John Jenkins said: Ah, but you should never underestimate the power of the Force. Remember that the IRG is *already* looking to adding some 60,000 ideographs for Extension C. Where do they find these things? -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com 15 Port

Re: visual bidi ?

2001-11-12 Thread Eric Muller
The unibook application (available from the Unicode website), tools-bidi is probably close to what you want. Eric.

Re: restricting the meaning of characters over time

2001-11-12 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 11:26 AM 11/7/01 -0800, Eric Muller wrote: Let's rewind to 1996. I encode a document, and I want a math less-than or equal character. The picture I want for it has the equal bar slanted. Looking throughout my Unicode 2.0 standard, I conclude that U+2264, LESS-THAN OR EQUAL is what I want (with

Re: ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚴ input methods?

2001-11-12 Thread Peter_Constable
Is there any IME, keyboard, or any similar utility to typing in the letters of the ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚴ, the Runic alphabet? On what platform? - Peter --- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International

RE: ISCII-Unicode Conversion

2001-11-12 Thread John McConnell
Title: Message The ISCII code pages is DLL-based, not table based. So if you have the file c_iscii.dll in your system32 folder, you have the support. The DLL ships with allconfigurations (I just confirmed that it was on the Windows 2000 CD) and will be installed if you install the Indic

RE: ISCII-Unicode Conversion

2001-11-12 Thread John McConnell
Title: Message Right, there is a section of intl.inf allows you to install optional code pages and that populates the list you see under Advanced Regional Options. Through an oversight, c_iscii.dll isn't in that section in Windows 2000--it's installed if and only if you install the

Re: What constitutes character?

2001-11-12 Thread James Kass
Gaspar Sinai wrote, 1. Not Simple to Use == There is no way to do the simplest operations without a huge library behind. Just think of a simple character search; if you want to seach for: Á character (U+00C1) you can not properly search without decomposing it.

Re: Monotype Hong Kong Extension mapping

2001-11-12 Thread Kevin Bracey
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Kevin Bracey wrote: I've been searching high and low for a Unicode mapping table for Monotype's Hong Kong extension (cf Lunde CJKV p568), without success. Can anyone help? I could do it

RE: ISCII-Unicode Conversion

2001-11-12 Thread Peter_Constable
John: In Windows 2000, you could not install the ISCII code page as an optional code page--only by installing the Indic language group. Strange. I have it (and all lg groups) installed, and the c_iscii.dll file is in my system32 folder, but the codepages mentioned don't show up in my Advanced

Re: Good Unicode fonts

2001-11-12 Thread David Starner
By Unicode fonts, what exactly do you mean? Most TrueType fonts use a Unicode encoding, and there are a decent number of fonts that contain a meaningful subset of Unicode - a number of fonts that approach MES-1 or MES-2, many fonts that cover legacy Asian character sets. There's no font that

ISCII-Unicode Conversion

2001-11-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Would anybody be able to point me to possible ISCII-Unicode conversion utilities/APIs? How reliable is the conversion? How well is Hindi supported by the UTF8-Internet Explorer combination? Your expertise is GREATLY appreciated. Best, Etienne

Re: What constitutes character?

2001-11-12 Thread Geoffrey Waigh
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Philipp Reichmuth wrote: What if it is a character where nobody knows for sure whether it is a character in its own right or a variant of some sort, in orthography, style or whatever? What is necessary for two signs to constitute different characters in cases such as

restricting the meaning of characters over time

2001-11-12 Thread Eric Muller
Let's rewind to 1996. I encode a document, and I want a math less-than or equal character. The picture I want for it has the equal bar slanted. Looking throughout my Unicode 2.0 standard, I conclude that U+2264, LESS-THAN OR EQUAL is what I want (with a font that happens to have a variant glyph

Re: What constitutes character?

2001-11-12 Thread James E. Agenbroad
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Philipp Reichmuth wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello folks, I've been wondering a little bit recently about the definition of character vs. glyph variant that is applied during decision whether or not a given proposed character should go into

RE: Is 879,309 enough?

2001-11-12 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Rick McGowan wrote: [...] John Jenkins says: the IRG is *already* looking to adding some 60,000 ideographs for Extension C. We have an obvious law of increasing inutility operating here... [...] If we have an extension that increases in size by even a mere 20,000 characters every 2

Removal from Mailing List.

2001-11-12 Thread Craig Ian Thomas
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Message problems

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