Re: ISO pulls back

2003-10-01 Thread Pim Blokland
Christopher John Fynn schreef: http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/pressreleases/2003/Ref871.html There is no proposal currently being considered by ISO to impose charges for use of these codes, including on the World Wide Web and in software applications. This kind of leaves it open for

Re: Internal Representation of Unicode

2003-10-01 Thread jon
At 11:15 AM 9/30/03 -0400, John Cowan wrote: Isaac Newton spent an unconscionable amount of time, by our standards, messing about with astrology and numerology One of the aspects of character encoding and standardization that seems to have an unholy fascination for people is its

RE: Internal Representation of Unicode

2003-10-01 Thread Jill Ramonsky
Yeah, but dude, wasting time on stupid ideas goes with the territory if you happen to be a creative genius. Some of your ideas won't work. Others will be magnificent. I'd put good money on the notion that if Newton had been prevented from pursuing astrology or numerology, this restriction

Re: Internal Representation of Unicode

2003-10-01 Thread John Cowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit: First they'd want numeric value properties added to the Hebrew and Greek letters, then when they came to do the same for the Latin letters the ensuing flamewar would bring the whole effort to a standstill. Numeric values for Hebrew, Greek, and Cyrillic make a lot

Re: font creation software for Unicode Hebrew proposal ?

2003-10-01 Thread Elaine Keown
Elaine Keown central Texas Hello again, Please reply off-list--I'm mostly trying to become a 3-day weekend Fri-Sun Unicoder. For the Hebrew proposal, I'm mostly doing new vowels/diacritics since my beloved ligatures were outlawed. Is there somewhere a freely available glyph

Mac fonts

2003-10-01 Thread Raymond Mercier
I am looking for Mac versions of the fonts TitusCyberbitBasic and Code2000. Any suggestions ? I would like a serif font like Times, with the Latin Extended Additional block. Raymond Mercier

Re: Mac fonts

2003-10-01 Thread Peter Kirk
On 01/10/2003 09:19, Raymond Mercier wrote: I am looking for Mac versions of the fonts TitusCyberbitBasic and Code2000. Any suggestions ? I would like a serif font like Times, with the Latin Extended Additional block. Raymond Mercier Try Gentium, a free download from

Re: Mac fonts

2003-10-01 Thread John Delacour
At 5:19 pm +0100 1/10/03, Raymond Mercier wrote: I am looking for Mac versions of the fonts TitusCyberbitBasic and Code2000. Any suggestions ? Any true-type font can be used on the Mac. Here's one URL. I also have Code2000 installed but I cant remember where I got it. Do a Google search.

FW: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

2003-10-01 Thread Magda Danish \(Unicode\)
Jim, I am forwarding your email to the Unicode list http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html for possible answers from the list subscribers. Regards, Magda Danish Administrative Director The Unicode Consortium 650-693-3921 -Original Message- Date/Time:Wed Oct 1

Re: Mac fonts

2003-10-01 Thread John Jenkins
Yes. The Windows versions of Titus Cyberbit Basic and Code 2000 work fine on Mac OS X for Latin Extended Additional. On 2003101, at 10:19, Raymond Mercier wrote: I am looking for Mac versions of the fonts TitusCyberbitBasic and Code2000. Any suggestions ? I would like a serif font like Times,

Re: FW: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

2003-10-01 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 10:50 AM 10/1/03 -0700, Magda Danish \(Unicode\) wrote: Our problem is the representation of the £ sign (British pound sign - U+00A3). When we type this character into our pages and then set the character encoding in our pages to Unicode (UTF-8) (either by setting it directly in the HTTP

RE: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

2003-10-01 Thread Marco Cimarosti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (through Magda Danish): [...] Our problem is the representation of the £ sign (British pound sign - U+00A3). When we type this character into our pages and then set the character encoding in our pages to Unicode (UTF-8) (either by setting it directly in the HTTP

Re: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

2003-10-01 Thread Pim Blokland
Magda Danish (Unicode) schreef: -Original Message- Date/Time:Wed Oct 1 05:19:00 EDT 2003 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback (..) the Pound sign displays as an error. This happens when we use Netscape 7.02, and IE 6.0 (both

Re: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

2003-10-01 Thread Stefan Persson
Marco Cimarosti wrote: I think it should be charset=UTF-8, in capital letters. I was looking into the IANA charsets today, and I don't remember having seen a lowercase alias for that. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1945/rfc1945 tells: literal Quotation marks surround literal text.

Re: Mac fonts

2003-10-01 Thread Raymond Mercier
Thanks to all who reassure me that TitusCyberbitBasic and Code2000 as I use them on my PC can also be used on Mac with OS X. This is really for a colleague, who has tried without success to install the Titus font that I passed on to her. She tells me she has OS X, and I will just have to discuss

Re: FW: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

2003-10-01 Thread Peter Kirk
-Original Message- Date/Time:Wed Oct 1 05:19:00 EDT 2003 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback Hi, I'm a web developer at Oxford University in the UK, and we are considering encoding all our websites in Unicode to allow support of

Re: Mac fonts

2003-10-01 Thread John Delacour
At 8:32 pm +0100 1/10/03, Raymond Mercier wrote: Thanks to all who reassure me that TitusCyberbitBasic and Code2000 as I use them on my PC can also be used on Mac with OS X. This is really for a colleague, who has tried without success to install the Titus font that I passed on to her. She tells

RE: Web Form: Other Question: British pound sign - U+00A3

2003-10-01 Thread John Delacour
At 8:40 pm +0200 1/10/03, Marco Cimarosti wrote: http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 I think it should be charset=UTF-8, in capital letters. I was looking into the IANA charsets today, and I don't remember having seen a lowercase alias for that. It is the whole content

Re: Mac fonts

2003-10-01 Thread Raymond Mercier
Thanks - I have passed on your messages. Raymond

Re: font creation software for Unicode Hebrew proposal ?

2003-10-01 Thread John Hudson
At 05:46 AM 10/1/2003, Elaine Keown wrote: For the Hebrew proposal, I'm mostly doing new vowels/diacritics since my beloved ligatures were outlawed. Is there somewhere a freely available glyph that has that little dotted circle used to display diacritics in Unicode documentation? I can send you

Re: Possible error in the Unicode code charts

2003-10-01 Thread Dao Xuan Nam
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