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> I think maybe that encoding (on the Internet) does not much
> matter. As long as my browser knows that it is looking at
> Unicode, it knows which, say, SJIS, character to look up in the
> font to display. Must have table lookup or something.
Encoding on the Internet *does
I think maybe that encoding (on the Internet) does not much matter. As long as my
browser knows that it is looking at Unicode, it knows which, say, SJIS, character to
look up in the font to display. Must have table lookup or something.
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From: Daniel Yacob <[EMAIL PROT
Greetings,
A number of the Ethiopian language news services have tentatively planned
for a "Unicode Only" week during the first week of January. Service in all
other encoding systems would be suspended during the week. The intention
is to give users a gentle push to download and install a Unico
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> Handled this way, the abstract characters become something similar to the
> keystrokes of a CJK input method: you press many keys, and you get a single
> blob. Once this blob (an ideograph) is on your screen, you can keep it or
> delete it, but you ha
At 04:09 AM 11/28/01 -0800, James Kass wrote:
>Is the repha supposed to be a spacing mark? If not, doesn't a non-spacing
>mark need to be applied to a space or spacing mark to avoid display
>problems?
The Unicode standard states that if you *intend* to show it in isolation,
you should make it f
At 12:32 PM 11/28/01 +0100, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>I don't think that Unicode requires that a non spacing mark *has* to be
>placed on something in order to be displayable. However, some fonts may
>chose to represent a stand-alone non spacing mark as floating on some
>default glyph, for either te
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> -Original Message-
> From: VANDANA AGRAWAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I need to upload a .txt file having chinese characters
> to mainframes.
> Using windows2000 i am able to see the chinese
> characters in the notepad, but when i upload it to
> mainframes and see the same file in chi
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From: VANDANA AGRAWAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 8:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Query !!
Hello,
I need to upload a .txt file having chinese characters
to mainframes.
Using windows2000 i am able to see the chinese
characters
John Hudson wrote:
> Or prajnyenaatmanaasmaallokaadutkramyamusminsvarge !
OK, you win. I haven't a longer one.
> Marco, my comment was tangential to the overall discussion,
> and wasn't
> intended to divert your 'slow-motion' and very interesting analysis.
>
> >And Indian users too shouldn't
Hello,
I agree with Mr. Hudson and Mr. Banerjee. The discussion would be more interesting to
consider and also would have more convincing reasons to invite attentions if there had
been really any implementation available with editing level rendering. The glyph based
editing would certainly be
Michael Everson wrote:
> At 12:14 +0100 2001-11-28, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>
> >And Indian users too shouldn't be forced to process strings
> of *abstract*
> >characters into their heads!
>
> Indian users have been using the ISCII model for decades.
OK. I spent only a few days in India, so I t
Dhrubajyoti Banerjee wrote:
> >1.3: a | repha na
> >1.7: a l- | na
>
> Which should be,
> 1.3: a ra virama |na
> 1.7: a la virama | na
OK, this sounds better. The difference is that, in the second version, the
cursor itself is interpreted as if it was a ZWNJ. So the "virama" (halant)
reveals i
At 12:14 +0100 2001-11-28, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>And Indian users too shouldn't be forced to process strings of *abstract*
>characters into their heads!
Indian users have been using the ISCII model for decades.
Ever see a Hindi mechanical typewriter layout?
--
Michael Everson *** Everson Typ
Does anyone know the current e-mail addresses for either the Vietnamese
Standardization Group (Viet-Std) or their reputedly non-profit spinoff, the
TriChlor Group? The commonly referenced addresses based at haydn.stanford.edu
seem to be non-functional.
Viet-Std is responsible for codifying th
Hi,
I am sorry for the delay.
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 Marco Cimarosti wrote :
> > Or, in terms of backing store:
> > >a ra virama ja -u | na
> >a ra virama ja | na
> >a ra virama | na
> >a ra | na
> >a | na
> >a la | na
> >a la virama | na
> >
At 03:14 11/28/2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>Ken's and my discussion is a sort of slow-motion analysis of what goes on
>while typing text. We used a short word just in order to keep the example
>short. But feel free to apply the same concepts to cases such as
>"Bhagavadgitopanishad"
Or prajnyena
At 03:32 11/28/2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>James Kass wrote:
> > Is the repha supposed to be a spacing mark? If not, doesn't
> > a non-spacing mark need to be applied to a space or spacing
> > mark to avoid display problems?
>
>I don't think that Unicode requires that a non spacing mark *has*
John Hudson wrote:
> >Eight keystrokes to replace a single character isn't exactly
> what I would
> >call an efficient solution. [...] At this
> conditions, it would be
> >simpler to delete the whole words and type it from scratch.
>
> FWIW:
> This is exactly what a lot of people would do, even
James Kass wrote:
> Is the repha supposed to be a spacing mark? If not, doesn't
> a non-spacing mark need to be applied to a space or spacing
> mark to avoid display problems?
I don't think that Unicode requires that a non spacing mark *has* to be
placed on something in order to be displayable.
I just wrote,
> ...need to be applied to a space or spacing mark to avoid display...
should be "space or spacing *glyph*".
Best regards,
James Kass.
Asmus Freytag wrote,
> At 12:37 PM 11/27/01 -0800, James Kass wrote:
> >Isn't that where it belongs? Default display for isolated combining
> >marks shows them with the dotted circle.
>
> No it does not. That's an artifact of the Unicode code chart notation.
>
> 25CC in many fonts (and in the
At 12:37 PM 11/27/01 -0800, James Kass wrote:
>Isn't that where it belongs? Default display for isolated combining
>marks shows them with the dotted circle.
No it does not. That's an artifact of the Unicode code chart notation.
25CC in many fonts (and in the charts for that matter) looks differ
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