On Monday, July 21, 2003 2:01 AM, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 19:56 -0400 2003-07-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
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> > Yahoo's title is obviously overblown ("sexed up" like the BBC says).
>
> And isn't *that* the meme of the moment. One idiot said it and it
> spread like a virus.
Philippe Verdy wrote on July 21, 2003 at 1:48 AM
> This one decision of the official terminology group is not stupid: it
adopts a term that is now spread among French and Canadian natives,
Best avoid the phrase 'Canadian natives'. Even though it might theoretically
embrace all of us who were born
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> At 19:56 -0400 2003-07-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
>
> >Obviously, the AP has found someone to say it is artificial.
>
> Of course, all language is artificial.
Well, at least all new words that can be traced to someone ca
At 10:59 -0400 2003-07-21, Patrick Andries wrote:
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At 19:56 -0400 2003-07-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
>Obviously, the AP has found someone to say it is artificial.
Of course, all language is artificial.
Well, at least all n
On 21/07/2003 09:00, Michael Everson wrote:
At 10:59 -0400 2003-07-21, Patrick Andries wrote:
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At 19:56 -0400 2003-07-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
>Obviously, the AP has found someone to say it is artificial.
Of course, al
Michael Everson wrote on July 21, 2003 at 12:00 > *All* words must be traced
to someone. They do not grow on trees.
They do so: in computer data structures , at least! ;-)
K
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't know what the "i" in
> the iLifestyle suite (iChat, iPhoto, iBook,
> iThis, iThat) means.
For developers, a capital "I" usually means interface -- in code certainly
but then often applied in life as only geeks can do. I have fond memories of
n
> eBook, e-mail, eBay, e-money, and all that gunk.
> I suppose we could do without them. Even Apple's
> gone weird about it. I don't know what the "i" in
> the iLifestyle suite (iChat, iPhoto, iBook,
> iThis, iThat) means.
e-jit, iDiot, iMbecile.
Michael (michka) Kaplan scripsit:
> For developers, a capital "I" usually means interface -- in code certainly
> but then often applied in life as only geeks can do.
For "developers" read "thralls of Microsoft". Us Java folks know that
the names of interfaces properly end in "-able" or "-ible";
On Monday, July 21, 2003 7:16 PM, Jon Hanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > eBook, e-mail, eBay, e-money, and all that gunk.
> > I suppose we could do without them. Even Apple's
> > gone weird about it. I don't know what the "i" in
> > the iLifestyle suite (iChat, iPhoto, iBook,
> > iThis, iThat) m
Philippe Verdy schreef:
> I'm not sure that even all English users appreciate the computer
> related jargon and acronyms that their geek developers want to
> force them to learn and use.
Hm... Personally I feel just the opposite. I think the computer
industry has taken too many normal words and f
Scríobh "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I always assumed the lowercase "i" was either meant to be something similar
>to devs but mean something like "information" to normal (i.e.,
>non-developer) types. Then, like any concept is has to be [over]used
>everywhere. Maybe someone from
Philippe Verdy wrote on 07/20/2003 08:37:19 AM:
> > What would be the purpose of encoding these? I can't think of any.
> > They certainly don't need to be encoded as distinct characters to use
> > in a Last Resort font.
>
> Mostly for documentation purpose
Since Unicode is not a glyph encoding s
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From: "Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] French Government Bans the Term 'E-Mail'
> On Monday, July 21, 2003 7:16 PM, Jon Hanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > eBook, e-mail, eBay, e-m
Hi,
I have a few questions about the properties and categories of some
punctuation characters. A few things seem counter-intuitive so
hopefully there is a clear explanation.
The property set Bidi_Mirrored includes pairs of parentheses that have
left and right glyphs because their meaning changes
> Where am I going with this? Basically what I'm after is a clean/clear
> way to tell if quotation marks and parentheses (plus the other
> bracketing characters such as '[' or '{' are opening or closing
> punctuation. That's the real question here! How would you do that
> using properties and ca
It has been claimed that some errors were made in specifying the combining
classes of some of the characters in the Hebrew Points and Punctuation
section (U+05B0 to U+05C4) of the Hebrew block of the Unicode standard.
Could someone please present a list of these errors.
Jony
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