Which cross is this?

2003-03-21 Thread David Starner
I'm working on Jenning's Sommerset Dialect for Project Gutenberg, and I came across the following paragraph: Criss-cross-lain. s. The alphabet; so called in consequence of its being formerly preceded in the horn-book by a ✠ to remind us of the cross of Christ; hence the term. Christ-Cross- line c

Re: WAS: Arabic country names NOW: link for learning arabic script

2003-03-21 Thread Edward H Trager
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Frank da Cruz wrote: > have what I hope are correct Arabic names for: > > Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, > Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, > Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirat

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2003-03-21 Thread Jain, Pankaj (MED, TCS)
Hi, sorry for confusion.I am using browser ie 5.50 and my application work fine(getting Pound symbol) when i host it to Windows operating server and but its not working when I host my application in Solaris.Its a simple java application which transform XML and XSLT. Thanks -Original Message--

RE: ANSI requires licence fees to use ISO language and country code?

2003-03-21 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 12:15 PM 3/21/03 -0800, Kenneth Whistler wrote: Let's try this one on for size: == However, if you load the list of ISO/IEC 10646 character codes in a commercial product, thus giving an added value to your product, we c

Re: Arabic country names

2003-03-21 Thread Frank da Cruz
Edward H Trager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (about how to find Arabic country names): > You need to download IBM's very thorough "International Components for > Unicode" library which is available under an Open Source license at: > > http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.4/index.html > > ...

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2003-03-21 Thread Yung-Fong Tang
Jain, Pankaj (MED, TCS) wrote: Hi, I am generating pound sign in html preview using XML XSLT transformation and its working fine in windows using £ in XML but same thing is not working in unix server. What do you mean "in unix server" ? display the text on the Unix Xterm ? or you are talking

RE: ANSI requires licence fees to use ISO language and country code?

2003-03-21 Thread Michael Everson
I wonder if I could get a royalty for every letter I have encoded in the standard. Har har har har har. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

Re: ANSI requires licence fees to use ISO language and country code?

2003-03-21 Thread Michael Everson
For what it is worth, TC46/WG2 resolved to request TC46 that the entire technical contents of ISO 3166-1 be made freely available on the web. Currently only the short country names and 2-letter codes are freely available from the official site. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http

RE: CJK question

2003-03-21 Thread Erik.Ostermueller
Have you tried the MS-Office Proofing Tools? It contains a font for GB 18030 characters as well as an updated version of the MS IME.   The install program forces you to have MS-Office XP installed. However, I've seen comments on the web suggesting that you can use it without XP.   --Erik

RE: ANSI requires licence fees to use ISO language and country code?

2003-03-21 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Michael, > A representative of ISO sent this to me today. > > >I do not know about ANSI but for ISO/CS the quote given below from > >http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/ind > >ex.html is certainly correct. > > > >We make a distinction between implementation an

Re: Help needed with Davanagari glyph

2003-03-21 Thread Pim Blokland
djinn schreef: > Does anyone know how to make the Devanagari glyph indicated here > http://www.hotpeachpages.net/lang/defn1.html#Hindi i.e. the glyph I have > drawn a rectangle around three samples of? If yes, please tell me. It looks like a Bengali letter. Could this be one of those notorious gl

RE: ANSI requires licence fees to use ISO language and country code?

2003-03-21 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Michael Everson wrote: > >However, if you load the list of country codes and names in a > >commercial product, thus giving an added value to your product, we > >consider it normal that ISO asks for the payment of a royalty fee. What about Open Source software like ICU (that i

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2003-03-21 Thread Jain, Pankaj (MED, TCS)
Hi, I am generating pound sign in html preview using XML XSLT transformation and its working fine in windows using £ in XML but same thing is not working in unix server. I am using utf-8 encoding for this. And the strange thing is that it works fine for PDF in both windows and unix which I am gener

CJK question

2003-03-21 Thread Allen Haaheim
Hello,   First my apologies if I have missed something already available on the Unicode website that I should have already known, as well as for my total lack of expertise in the fields commonly under discussion in this forum. If anyone knows of a more appropriate place towards which I shoul

Re: Help needed with Davanagari glyph

2003-03-21 Thread Kenneth Whistler
> Does anyone know how to make the Devanagari glyph indicated here > http://www.hotpeachpages.net/lang/defn1.html#Hindi i.e. the glyph I have > drawn a rectangle around three samples of? If yes, please tell me. U+0936 DEVANAGARI LETTER SHA (although you have just circled the left half of the cha

RE: Help needed with Davanagari glyph

2003-03-21 Thread Andy White
You have drawn a rectangle around the left part of the letter 'sha'. (U+0936) If you want to display it without its supporting 'aa matra sign (i.e.as a half letter) you would encode it as Sha+Virama+ZWJ. (u+0936 u+094D u+200d) Andy djinn wrote: > > Does anyone know how to make the Devanagari

Re: ANSI requires licence fees to use ISO language and country code?

2003-03-21 Thread Michael Yau
Also, I heard that the licensing is on a yearly basis. Michael Everson wrote: A representative of ISO sent this to me today. I do not know about ANSI but for ISO/CS the quote given below from http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/ind ex.html is certainly corr

Help needed with Davanagari glyph

2003-03-21 Thread djinn
Does anyone know how to make the Devanagari glyph indicated here http://www.hotpeachpages.net/lang/defn1.html#Hindi i.e. the glyph I have drawn a rectangle around three samples of? If yes, please tell me. -- djinn fissure Favourite Unicode page: http://www.hotpeachpages.net/lang/indexu.html

RE: ANSI requires licence fees to use ISO language and country code?

2003-03-21 Thread Michael Everson
A representative of ISO sent this to me today. I do not know about ANSI but for ISO/CS the quote given below from http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/ind ex.html is certainly correct. We make a distinction between implementation and commercial use. I have no id

Re: Arabic country names

2003-03-21 Thread Edward H Trager
OK, Frank, It took me a little while to remember where to find this kind of information, but now I've got it! You need to download IBM's very thorough "International Components for Unicode" library which is available under an Open Source license at: http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.4/

Zhongwen

2003-03-21 Thread jarkko.hietaniemi
This might of interest for people interested in Chinese characters: http://zhongwen.com/ Uses heavily image maps (not Unicode, I am afraid :-) and frames, but to rather cool results: http://zhongwen.com/dao.htm (Disclaimer: the people-press link in the Dao De Jing page has little to do with eit