Doug Ewell scripsit:
> > In 19th century California, it was common for things to cost 12.5
> > cents, although the U.S. has never made coins for this amount, nor for
> > 0.5 cents either.
>
> The U.S. did indeed make half-cent coins, from 1793 through 1857.
Well, I guess this is my version of a
John Cowan wrote:
> In 19th century California, it was common for things to cost 12.5
> cents, although the U.S. has never made coins for this amount, nor for
> 0.5 cents either.
The U.S. did indeed make half-cent coins, from 1793 through 1857.
However, they generally did not circulate outside o
Philippe Verdy scripsit:
> I thought it was in Iceland...
The Alþingi was founded in 930, shortly after Iceland was settled.
In 1262, after the reception of Norwegian authority, it became mostly
the Icelandic high court, and the last vestige of legislative function
vanished in 1662. In 1800 it w
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit:
> What's more, in the Isle of Man (which is situated between Britain and
> Ireland) they accept pretty much any currency under the sun. You can pay for
> things in a mixture of pounds sterling, euro, US dollars, whatever. They
> don't care. Shops will just take anything
On 15/08/2003 15:18, Jim Allan wrote:
Ah!
But I still see "LATIN" coming out perfectly as "LATIN" in small
capitals.
I lucked out.
Investigation shows that my system is picking up exactly the right
small capital characters from the PUA in the fonts Pigiarniq and
Pigiarniq Italic available fr
From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Agreed. But it's not a member or part of the EU, or of the UK, like
the
> Channel Islands - which makes them all convenient tax havens. It is
> self-governing, with the oldest Parliament in the world I understand.
I thought it was in Iceland...
Paul Kirk posted in regards to bad characters from the Unicode PDS files:
What seems to be happening, in Windows 2000, is that the text on the
clipboard is made up of PUA character codes U+F7XX, where the XX seems
to be the corresponding ASCII code. For example, small caps "LATIN"
comes out as F76
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Jill Ramonsky posted:
What I mean is, it seems (to me) that there is a HUGE semantic difference
between the hexadecimal digit thirteen, and the letter D.
Yes.
There is also a HUGE semantic difference between D meaning the letter D
and Roman numeral D meaning 500.
But see http://www.unicode.org
Jull Ramonsky asked:
> Thoughts anyone?
Well, yes...
> If the semantic difference between (for example) uppercase D and
> mathemematical bold uppercase D was considered sufficiently great so as to
> require a new codepoint, then I am tempted to wonder if the same might be
> considered true of he
At 08:08 AM 8/15/2003, Paul Nelson \(TYPOGRAPHY\) wrote:
>I understood that ZWJ/ZWNJ followed by a combining mark gives a
defective
>combining sequence, which is not illegal but whose rendering is
undefined
>- and which Uniscribe tends to render with a dotted circle.
This is not a correct underst
On 15/08/2003 07:57, Paul Nelson (TYPOGRAPHY) wrote:
This brings us back to the earlier quesion of whether it is
legitimate to use ZWJ or ZWNJ between combining marks
It sure better be. This is done in Khmer for controlling register shift
combinations for exception words. I have seen nothing
If the semantic
difference between (for example) uppercase D and mathemematical bold
uppercase D was considered sufficiently great so as to require a new
codepoint, then I am tempted to wonder if the same might be considered true of
hexadecimal digits.
What I mean is, it
seems (to me) tha
> > They aren’t really SI preficies in this context. Milli, centi, kilo,
> > mega and giga (at least) have part of the global lexicon; terra is
> ^
> > not far behind (especially if disk sizes continue to grow).
>
> Does that refer
Am I correct in understanding UAX #14 as specifying that there should be
no break between two category BA (break opportunity after) characters,
or between two hyphens? This is the desired behaviour (specifically for
Hebrew maqaf which probably should be in category BA, I expect to
propose a ch
On 15/08/2003 04:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's more, in the Isle of Man (which is situated between Britain and
Ireland) they accept pretty much any currency under the sun. You can pay for
things in a mixture of pounds sterling, euro, US dollars, whatever. They
don't care. Shops will just tak
What's more, in the Isle of Man (which is situated between Britain and
Ireland) they accept pretty much any currency under the sun. You can pay for
things in a mixture of pounds sterling, euro, US dollars, whatever. They
don't care. Shops will just take anything, and if necessary make up an
exchan
At 11:47 +0100 2003-08-15, Marion Gunn wrote:
Not pausing to wonder why on earth this list
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is currently discussing my
country's currencies, only to wonder if anyone
here knows whether Ireland is the only EU
country which has to use two - in Belfast we use
Pounds Sterling (£
Not pausing to wonder why on earth this list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is
currently discussing my country's currencies, only to wonder if anyone
here knows whether Ireland is the only EU country which has to use two -
in Belfast we use Pounds Sterling (£), and in Dublin euro ().
mg
ps.
To complicate/s
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