The virus

2001-12-11 Thread Arjun Aggarwal
Hi Everybody   I am extremely sorry for the virus story.I myself did not know that there was a virus lurking in my e-mails. It was actually a Worm by the name W32/BadTrans@MM which i just yesterday cleared from my computer. It was an embeded Worm with an extended .scr extension. This particul

Unicode 3.2 BETA

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Davis
The next version of the Unicode Standard will be Version 3.2.0, due for release in March, 2002. The beta period for this version will be until January XXX, 2001. During this beta period, updated Unicode Character Database files are available for public comment. We strongly encourage implementers

Re: Unicode 3.2 BETA

2001-12-11 Thread Kenneth Whistler
> The beta period for this version will be until January XXX, 2001. What Mark meant was until: January 25, 2002. --Ken

Re: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
At 18:34 2001-12-11 +0100, Stefan Persson wrote: >Hi! > >A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing a virus. >Has anyone else received the same virus? Yes, but I just deleted it. Adam --- http://EasyDomain.com/ Domains for less

RE: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Everson
At 14:51 -0600 2001-12-11, Hohberger, Clive wrote: >Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express are everybody's favorite virus target. >That's because its the biggest and most symbolic target around, the World >Trade Center of E-mail programs. To the hacker community, writing a virus >for Eudora or fo

Re: Lao Unicode Text Test Pages

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Leisher
James> Are there any? (Besides charts or lists.) Best regards, Try http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/lao-test.html. It should look like the image at http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/cu/cu-lao.html. Another option is to write a converter for the Lao Light font encoding at http://www.laogate.com,

RE: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Hohberger, Clive
>>Stefan Persson wrote: > >> > >> A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing > >> > >>a virus. Has anyone else received the same virus? > >Michael Everson wrote in reponse: >Nope. I use a Macintosh. [Hohberger, Clive] writes: And this

Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-11 Thread James Kass
Michael Everson wrote, > > Re: Phaistos, it's been thought that until a second document comes to > light, there's not much to say. > A bilingual would be nice. > Didn't I say I was going to put Phaistos in the ConScript registry? I forgot. Cool. Is the BMP PUA big enough for all the ConS

Lao Unicode Text Test Pages

2001-12-11 Thread James Kass
Are there any? (Besides charts or lists.) Best regards, James Kass.

Re: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread James Kass
Yes! I took a moment to advise Arjun that his system was infected with the BADTRANS virus, but he has not yet responded. Hopefully he is cleaning his system. There's been a rash of computer viruses rec'd here over the past few weeks, and Arjun's wasn't the first to purportedly come from a list

Re: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Everson
At 20:03 +0100 2001-12-11, Otto Stolz wrote: >Stefan Persson wrote: > >>A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing > >>a virus. Has anyone else received the same virus? Nope. I use a Macintosh. Cheerily, -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.

RE: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Stefan Persson wrote: > A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message > containing a virus. > Has anyone else received the same virus? How can we know? How does it manifest itself? Is it an attached file or something like that? (I could't resist:-) And does it look like a half conson

Re: Undeciphered scripts (Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk))

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Everson
At 19:50 +0100 2001-12-11, Stefan Persson wrote: >And how would you be able to know if character x is a different character >than character y, or just a glyph variant? The Phaistos repertoire anyway is pretty small. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

Undeciphered scripts (Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk))

2001-12-11 Thread Stefan Persson
- Original Message - From: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: den 11 december 2001 19:18 Subject: Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk) > I'm curious about the range in the Roadmap reserved for undeciphered

Re: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Otto Stolz
Stefan Persson wrote: > A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing > a virus. Has anyone else received the same virus? Yes, and I sent him/her the letter quoted below. That letter was not delivered (due to mail quota, if I remeber cor- rectly), so I wrote to the postma

Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-11 Thread Rick McGowan
Isn't "accretion disk" something that forms around a black hole?

Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Everson
At 10:18 -0800 2001-12-11, James Kass wrote: >A standardized encoding for the symbols might do much to help >researchers and aficionados in their deciphering attempts. But, >since nothing is really known for certain about the symbols, there >would be no way to assign properties to the "character

Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Stefan Persson
Hi! A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing a virus. Has anyone else received the same virus? Stefan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Unification and space Question

2001-12-11 Thread Bill Kurmey
Since the list seems to be a bit slow on substantive issues, may I ask a few questions for clarification please. Q1 on unification of abstract characters. If abstract character x is unified with abstract character y, and the use of abstract character x is thereby deprecated or discouraged, am

Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-11 Thread James Kass
Marco Cimarosti wrote, > > Lots of people have solved the mystery: > > http://users.otenet.gr/~svoronan/phaistos.htm > Exactly. No endorsement of either the Massey's efforts or Schomburg's work was intended. The Schomburg link was offered because of the site's superior graphics (and because t