Characters for Cakchiquel

I've found these characters in a book called "The Annals of the Cakchiquels", by Daniel G. Brinton. They have a little history, as noted by the tag in the picture. The tz is for a tz sound, and is probably just a glyph variant of that character. The 4 is called a cuatrillo, the reversed three is ca

Re: Annotation

At 10:48 -0800 26/03/2003, Kenneth Whistler wrote: And the reason why U+2030 PER MILLE SIGN is the right answer is that salinity is measured in grams per 1 kg of solution. > The question :-) Yes, what is the question? Shall Ken add "salinity" to the PER MILLE SIGN? -- Michael Everson * * Eve

Re: Annotation

Michael, > According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English > Language, page 1303, in the list of symbols and signs, it indicates > that a symbol similar to the per-mille sign can be used to indicate > "salinity". Nice annotation. > > Having said that, the etymology of the percent

Annotation

According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, page 1303, in the list of symbols and signs, it indicates that a symbol similar to the per-mille sign can be used to indicate "salinity". Nice annotation. Having said that, the etymology of the percent sign given on page 449

Re: Detecting UTF-8 Locale Question

Edward H Trager wrote: (1) Is examination of the LC_CTYPE environment variable on UNIX-like environments a sufficient way of detecting locale? No, see . See also: - -

Re: Detecting UTF-8 Locale Question

Muhammad Asif wrote: My initial plan for finding out about the current locale is that the program will, at start up, look at the LC_CTYPE environment variable. If that variable is defined and contains the substring "UTF-8" or regex-able After calling setlocale(LC_ALL, ""), you should use nl_lan

Re: Several BOMs in the same file

Marco Cimarosti wrote: Kent Karlsson wrote: I'm not going into the implementation part; just pointing out that this issue is not something an operating system can ignore. "cat" and "cp" can and shall ignore it. They are octet-level file operations, attaching no semantics to the octets.