Re: browsers and unicode surrogates

2002-04-19 Thread jshin
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Tom Gewecke wrote: I have added a couple more variations of the Unicode supplementary characters example page, for utf-16 and utf-32. I had the impression that it was not really practical to use web pages with these encodings over the internet, because they do not

PS names for glyphs corresponding to non-BMP chars

2002-04-19 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
The latest docs I've seen indicate four hex chars in the uni names for glyphs corresponding to BMP chars. What should be done for glyphs corresponding to characters in the supplementary planes? Will using five or six hex chars break any software¹ out in the wild? Also, would setting up lig

RE: SCSU compression (WAS: RE: Thai word list)

2002-04-19 Thread Yves Arrouye
This looks like a nice endorsement of SCSU: :D It saves 59% just as a charset, and it saves almost 20% in a system with a real compression. I am all for SCSU as a charset (after my tools can view it properly), but that was not the use there. OTOH there is gzip encoding in HTTP 1.1 :)

LAST Call for Papers - 22nd Unicode Conference - Sep 2002 - San Jose,CA

2002-04-19 Thread Misha . Wolf
Twenty-second International Unicode Conference (IUC22) Unicode and the Web: Evolution or Revolution? http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc22 September 9-13, 2002 San Jose, California

Re: browsers and unicode surrogates

2002-04-19 Thread Steffen Kamp
I have added a couple more variations of the Unicode supplementary characters example page, for utf-16 and utf-32. I am not sure if your UTF-16 and UTF-32 test pages really conform to the HTML standard. The server states a content type of text/html without charset information. From the content

Re: PS names for glyphs corresponding to non-BMP chars

2002-04-19 Thread John Hudson
At 13:31 4/19/2002, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: The latest docs I've seen indicate four hex chars in the uni names for glyphs corresponding to BMP chars. What should be done for glyphs corresponding to characters in the supplementary planes? Adobe are supposed to have posted an update to

Re: What characters have baseline?

2002-04-19 Thread Vladimir Ivanov
Philipp Reichmuth wrote: I don't think it's fixed 27.5° in handwritten script, it varies quite considerably, partly depending on how much text has to fit in the line in calligraphy. In ordinary handwriting, the angle easily reaches 45° or more. I couldn't find any reference in books about