Re: [OT] Meaning of U+24560?

2003-10-11 Thread Chris Jacobs
I don't know. I do know of course what http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=24650 tells about it. But just maybe there is more? "The worst thing about censorship is " Right now I don't know if the relevant item is 24560 or 24650 or both. - Original Message - Fro

[OT] Meaning of U+24560?

2003-10-11 Thread Patrick Andries
Would anyone know what U+24650 means? Many thanks Patrick Andries

Re: Web Form: Other Question: CJK

2003-10-11 Thread John Jenkins
On 2003年10月10日, at 下午2:48, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote: My problem is to recognize from the 32 bit value of unicode character if this is a chinese character or korean or japanese. How can do this? It's basically impossible and largely meaningless. It's the equivalent of asking if "a" is an Engl

Re: Tai Xuan Jing Symbols, any background information ?

2003-10-11 Thread Richard Cook
The English TXJ names come from Michael Nylan's book. You'll have to find that book to learn what she meant. Or better, get a copy of the Chinese original. -Richard On Saturday, Oct 11, 2003, at 13:28 US/Pacific, Patrick Andries wrote: Would anyone know where I could find some background in

Re: Tai Xuan Jing Symbols, any background information ?

2003-10-11 Thread Patrick Andries
Okay, I found what I was looking for, http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2416.pdf has the Chinese names. P. A.

Tai Xuan Jing Symbols, any background information ?

2003-10-11 Thread Patrick Andries
Would anyone know where I could find some background information on the Tai Xuan Symbols (U+1D300-U+1D356)? Any JTC1/SC2 document? The Chinese names? I'm having problem understanding a lot of names in this block. For instance : What does "watch" mean in U+1D344? Timepiece? Peri

Re: FW: Web Form: Other Question: CJK

2003-10-11 Thread John Delacour
> Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback > > My problem is to recognize from the 32 bit value of unicode > character if this is a chinese character or korean or japanese. How can do this? You can tell if it is NOT from a legacy character set

Re: FW: Web Form: Other Question: CJK

2003-10-11 Thread Edward H. Trager
On Friday 2003.10.10 14:48:58 -0700, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote: > Roberto, > > I am forwarding your question to the Unicode mailing list for possible > answers from the list's subscribers. > > Regards, > > Magda Danish > Administrative Director > The Unicode Consortium > 650-693-3921 > > >

Re: DEC-MCS mapping, anyone?

2003-10-11 Thread Frank da Cruz
I've added a DEC MCS table to the character tables at: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/csettables.html - Frank

Re: Bangla: [ZWJ], [VIRAMA] and CV sequences

2003-10-11 Thread Peter Kirk
On 11/10/2003 05:37, Gautam Sengupta wrote: ... [Gautam]: I did hedge my claim by saying that I was going to cite a rather minor example. But why would I want to do this extra bit of computing - however trivial - when I could have avoided it by adopting a more "appropriate" encoding in the first

Re: Bangla: [ZWJ], [VIRAMA] and CV sequences

2003-10-11 Thread Gautam Sengupta
--- Peter Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09/10/2003 21:22, Gautam Sengupta wrote: > > > ... > > > > Yes, but not just programmers who are concerned > with how a Unicode > > text should be encoded, but also those who are > going to have to > > process these texts for various purposes. Let

RE: Bangla: [ZWJ], [VIRAMA] and CV sequences

2003-10-11 Thread Gautam Sengupta
--- Marco Cimarosti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo, Mr. Sengupta. > > > Now let's consider the same pair of inputs in *my* > > representation. They would be K+R+VIRAMA+I and > > J+VIRAMA+AA+I. All that the morphological analyzer > would > > have to do is chop off the rightmost . The > leftover