Re: charset=utf8 and Mac mailers

2003-11-03 Thread YTang0648
 At 5:36 pm +0100 2/11/03, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:   >> True. However, some software will ignore hyphens in charset names in >> order to make bad encoding declarations like "utf8" work properly. Web >> browsers are one example of this. First of all, a software which ignore the hyphens in one

Re: charset=utf8 and Mac mailers

2003-11-03 Thread YTang0648
  >Can someone tell me if "utf8" is valid in a charset declaration. I ask >because I notice that neither Mail.app nor Eudora on the Macintosh >(MacOS 10.2.8) will recognise it and decode text so sent and will >insist on "utf-8" or "UTF-8" in the Content-Type decalration, >presumably because the

Re: Collation contractions and reordering, was: Hebrew composition model, with cantillation marks

2003-11-03 Thread Markus Scherer
I suggest you try it out - http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/lx/en_US/utf-8/?_=he&EXPLORE_CollationElements= ICU implements the UCA, including discontiguous contractions. markus Peter Kirk wrote: On 03/11/2003 07:01, Kent Karlsson wrote: However, the UCA does ignore differences between or

Looking for 3 IUC25 Panelist for Tcl I18N

2003-11-03 Thread YTang0648
Folks on the Unicode mailing list:   I want to submit a Panel Presentation for IUC25 http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc25/submit-call.html topic "Let's Add More International Features to Tcl now!!!"   I need 3 panelists for this presentation. Anyone know Tcl want to join me? You can also join us if

Collation contractions and reordering, was: Hebrew composition model, with cantillation marks

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Kirk
On 03/11/2003 07:01, Kent Karlsson wrote: ... However, the UCA does ignore differences between order of *"non-blocking"* (**different** non-zero combining classes) combining marks **when processing contractions**. ... Kent, thanks for the hint. For the last few weeks I have been complaining l

Unicode Collation Algorithm, version 4.0.0

2003-11-03 Thread Rick McGowan
We are pleased to announce the release of the 4.0.0 version of Unicode Technical Standard #10: The Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA), which specifies a default sorting order and comparison mechanism for all Unicode characters. Major changes in this release include: - The version of the UCA is now

RE: Hebrew composition model, with cantillation marks

2003-11-03 Thread Kent Karlsson
[I'm not sure why this Hebrew thread has migrated back to the general Unicode list (from the Hebrew list); but my comments below aren't specific to Hebrew.] Jony Rosenne wrote: ... > > As they will share the same combining class 220, the > > canonical ordering will preserve their relative order

Re: Hebrew composition model, with cantillation marks

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Kirk
On 02/11/2003 21:55, Jony Rosenne wrote: I don't see any basis for saying "now generally considered misguided". Some people don't like them. Some of the reasons given were based on a misunderstanding. Jony Well, for example Ken Whistler wrote in http://www.unicode.org/faq/normalization.html: