Character properties

2002-07-15 Thread Suzanne M. Topping
Is there a place on unicode.org which describes the concept of properties in greater detail? -Original Message- From: Kenneth Whistler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Other properties accrue more directly to characters, per se. They attach to the abstract character, and get associated

Re: Common input methods for IPA

2002-07-15 Thread Doug Ewell
Marc Wilhelm Küster kuester at saphor dot net wrote: Lukas' German-based phonetic keyboard is something I'll definitely take a deeper look into -- what I saw so far on the quoted URL is promising. It comes closest to a turn-key solution for Germany for the time being. At the same time I'll

Re: Proposal: Ligatures w/ ZWJ in OpenType

2002-07-15 Thread Doug Ewell
Concerning the use of ZWJ to request ligation in the Latin script (and, less contentiously, the use of ZWNJ to prevent it), many -- including some experts and UTC members -- have stated that ZWJ should only be used in exceptional circumstances, or when the requested ligature is necessary

Is UniCode's Thai character representation is acceptable by TISI or not?

2002-07-15 Thread Sreedhar M
Hi Samphan, Thank U for Your kind response.Please let me know whether Unicode's Thai character represation is acceptable by TISI or not? It is very essential to our project. Thanks in Advance. Regards, Sreedhar M. - Original Message - From: Samphan Raruenrom [EMAIL

Re: Proposal: Ligatures w/ ZWJ in OpenType

2002-07-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 09:58 AM, Doug Ewell wrote: No, what bothers me is that the ZWJ/ZWNJ ligation scheme is starting to look just like the DOA (deprecated on arrival) Plane 14 language tags. In each case, Unicode has created a mechanism to solve a genuine (if limited) need, but then

General question

2002-07-15 Thread Rick McGowan
Good morning Unicadets -- This one came in to the Unicode office. If anyone has any hints, please reply to the sender directly. Thanks, Rick Date/Time:Mon Jul 15 05:48:43 EDT 2002 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report Type: General question where can I get the free tool to

Re: Common input methods for IPA

2002-07-15 Thread Michael Everson
Doug, Let's take this IPA keylayout discussion to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. I'll be posting a comparison chart of four different layouts there shortly. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

Re: Common input methods for IPA

2002-07-15 Thread Michael Everson
At 08:24 -0700 2002-07-15, Doug Ewell wrote: Also, I haven't made my IPA keyboard for UniPad available yet, for the reasons I mentioned: it's based on the images at gy.com (which are somewhat difficult to interpret and which can hardly be said to depict a standard IPA keyboard), plus there are

Re: Proposal: Ligatures w/ ZWJ in OpenType

2002-07-15 Thread John Hudson
At 08:58 AM 15-07-02, Doug Ewell wrote: No, what bothers me is that the ZWJ/ZWNJ ligation scheme is starting to look just like the DOA (deprecated on arrival) Plane 14 language tags. In each case, Unicode has created a mechanism to solve a genuine (if limited) need, but then told us --

Re: TrueType signature bits

2002-07-15 Thread Raymond Mercier
Thanks for the confirmation. Do you know what role the unicode bits play in the use of the font - in MS Word, for example ? As far as I can see, even if the bits are set carelessly, or not set at all, the font seems to work in Word. Raymond

C++ unicode

2002-07-15 Thread Raymond Mercier
I am sure there is no tool, free or otherwise, for making C++ code unicode compliant If you are talking of Windows code, you could make a start by just putting #define UNICODE before the windows headers. Then, you will have a lot of editing to do. I have just finished that sort of project, so as

Re: TrueType signature bits

2002-07-15 Thread David Starner
At 10:11 PM 7/15/02 +0100, Raymond Mercier wrote: Do you know what role the unicode bits play in the use of the font Among other things, the new X font architecture will try to use them to pick a font in a culturely acceptable typeface.

Re: TrueType signature bits

2002-07-15 Thread John Hudson
At 02:11 PM 15-07-02, Raymond Mercier wrote: Do you know what role the unicode bits play in the use of the font - in MS Word, for example ? As far as I can see, even if the bits are set carelessly, or not set at all, the font seems to work in Word. At the moment, they are mainly of use when

Re: Is UniCode's Thai character representation is acceptable by TISI or not?

2002-07-15 Thread Samphan Raruenrom
Sreedhar M wrote: Thank U for Your kind response.Please let me know whether Unicode's Thai character represation is acceptable by TISI or not? It is very essential to our project. Yes. TISI had taken part in the representation of Thai char. in ISO 10646 (and Unicode indirectly). Unicode has