Re: h in Greek epigraphy

2002-12-15 Thread Doug Ewell
David J. Perry wrote: > My first answer to my correspondent was "just use Roman h." Then I > got to thinking: are there any situations in Unicode where actual > letters of the alphabet are unified across scripts? There are lots of > punctuation marks and symbols that can be used with multiple s

Re: h in Greek epigraphy

2002-12-15 Thread Peter_Constable
On 12/15/2002 06:59:33 AM "David J. Perry" wrote: >My first answer to my correspondent was "just use Roman h." Then I got to >thinking: are there any situations in Unicode where actual letters of the >alphabet are unified across scripts? There are lots of punctuation marks and >symbols that ca

Re: Documenting in Tamil Computing

2002-12-15 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Avarangal wrote: > If you are preparing a Tamil document, intended for long term use you must > use Unicode Encoding. Any other approach you take can be considered a Absolutely. > Unfortunately Windows 95 and Windows 98 can only read Unicode pages. > You can write in Un

Documenting in Tamil Computing

2002-12-15 Thread Avarangal
fwd: fyi: Below is a copy of a mail I circulated on the subject of Documenting in Tamil Computing << From: "sisrivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun Dec 15, 2002 11:24pm Subject: Documenting in Tamil Computing    We need to be clear as to the direction that Tamil is going

Searching for CJK etc characters on electronic media

2002-12-15 Thread Smith, Mike
Hello I frequently need to search computer storage media for words in languages such as chinese, japanese, korean, russian etc. Currently I have been using tools that primarily display the computer values as ASCII or hex. The search tool has no display capability for unicode values (or glyphs).

Re: IPA for "hard g"

2002-12-15 Thread Eric Muller
Doug Ewell wrote: I didn't know (and had not checked) whether the Handbook was available to non-members of the Association. ISBN 0-521-63751-1. Cambridge University Press. List price is $18 in the US. Available through Amazon and such. Eric.

h in Greek epigraphy

2002-12-15 Thread David J. Perry
I had a question about how to handle the use of lowercase h in Greek epigraphy. For example, the word spelled ἡγεμών in modern standardized texts might be found on a stone written in one of the archaic Greek alphabets as ΗΕΓΕΜΟΝ, where the capital Eta represents the "h" sound. This would be tr