Re: Web Form: Other Question: Etruscan,Sanscrit & Linear B on ibo ok G4

2004-01-28 Thread John Jenkins
On Jan 28, 2004, at 12:09 PM, Marco Cimarosti wrote: John Jenkins wrote: Anybody understand what he means by there is "unicode gamma of characters but it is not complete"? I guess "unicode gamma of characters" is Italinglish for "Unicode character set". (Italian "gamma" means "repertoire", "rang

Re: Unwanted publicity?

2004-01-28 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Tim Partridge wrote: > I was somewhat surprised to see the word Unicode on page 8 of the Metro > newspaper (London, UK) today (January 28, 2004). > > Unfortunately it was in the middle of an article about Mydoom, where it says > "The message may read 'The message contains Unicode characters and h

Re: Latin Theta?

2004-01-28 Thread Thomas Widmann
"Mark E. Shoulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was playing around with making my very own IPA keyboard, and I > discovered to my surprise that Unicode has no Latin Small Theta (for > IPA). We have LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA (U+0251), LATIN SMALL LETTER > GAMMA (U+0263), LATIN SMALL LETTER EPSIL

Re: Latin Theta?

2004-01-28 Thread jcowan
Mark E. Shoulson scripsit: > I was playing around with making my very own IPA keyboard, and I > discovered to my surprise that Unicode has no Latin Small Theta (for > IPA). We have LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA (U+0251), LATIN SMALL LETTER > GAMMA (U+0263), LATIN SMALL LETTER EPSILON (U+052B, thoug

Re: Latin Theta?

2004-01-28 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
Oh yeah, and Chi also. ~mark Mark E. Shoulson wrote: I was playing around with making my very own IPA keyboard, and I discovered to my surprise that Unicode has no Latin Small Theta (for IPA). We have LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA (U+0251), LATIN SMALL LETTER GAMMA (U+0263), LATIN SMALL LETTER EP

Re: Web Form: Other Question: Etruscan,Sanscrit & Linear B on ibo ok G4

2004-01-28 Thread Christopher Vance
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:09:28PM +0100, Marco Cimarosti wrote: John Jenkins wrote: Anybody understand what he means by there is "unicode gamma of characters but it is not complete"? I guess "unicode gamma of characters" is Italinglish for "Unicode character set". (Italian "gamma" means "repertoi

Re: Unwanted publicity?

2004-01-28 Thread Adam Twardoch
> The name Unicode is now in mailboxes around the world - is this a good or > bad thing? I guess neither good nor bad. Most people don't know what Unicode is and most people don't English anyway, so I guess they won't really care what the message says. Adam

Re: Latin Theta?

2004-01-28 Thread D. Starner
"Mark E. Shoulson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If IPA deserves Latin versions of ÏÏ, then it needs them for ÎÎ too. IPA is a mixture of Latin and Greek characters. discusses why there's no Latin Î or Î; basically all

Latin Theta?

2004-01-28 Thread Mark E. Shoulson
I was playing around with making my very own IPA keyboard, and I discovered to my surprise that Unicode has no Latin Small Theta (for IPA). We have LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA (U+0251), LATIN SMALL LETTER GAMMA (U+0263), LATIN SMALL LETTER EPSILON (U+052B, though that's its old name), LATIN SMALL

Unwanted publicity?

2004-01-28 Thread Timothy Partridge
I was somewhat surprised to see the word Unicode on page 8 of the Metro newspaper (London, UK) today (January 28, 2004). Unfortunately it was in the middle of an article about Mydoom, where it says "The message may read 'The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachm

RE: Web Form: Other Question: Etruscan,Sanscrit & Linear B on ibo ok G4

2004-01-28 Thread Marco Cimarosti
John Jenkins wrote: > Anybody understand what he means by there is "unicode gamma of > characters but it is not complete"? I guess "unicode gamma of characters" is Italinglish for "Unicode character set". (Italian "gamma" means "repertoire", "range", "scale", "set".) _ Marco

RE: Web Form: Other Question: Etruscan,Sanscrit & Linear B on ibo ok G4

2004-01-28 Thread Mike Ayers
Title: RE: Web Form: Other Question: Etruscan,Sanscrit & Linear B on ibook G4 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of John Jenkins > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 9:32 AM > Anybody understand what he means by there is "unicode gamma of > characters but it is

IPA Contour Tones (was: U+02C1 and U+02E4)

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Kirk
On 28/01/2004 08:22, Doug Ewell wrote: Peter Kirk wrote: Thank you, Doug. This is a useful test page for IPA support. It would be even more useful if it attempted to display 02E5-02E9, perhaps with a suitable note about limited support. Just to clarify for the list: The page does displa

Re: Web Form: Other Question: Etruscan,Sanscrit & Linear B on ibook G4

2004-01-28 Thread John Jenkins
Anybody understand what he means by there is "unicode gamma of characters but it is not complete"? Basically, they need to be running OS X with a Unicode-savvy program like TextEdit or Mellel. On Jan 28, 2004, at 10:13 AM, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote: Giovanni, I am posting your request to th

FW: Web Form: Other Question: Etruscan,Sanscrit & Linear B on ibook G4

2004-01-28 Thread Magda Danish \(Unicode\)
Giovanni, I am posting your request to the Unicode list http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html for a possible answer to your query from the Unicode community. Maga Danish Administrative Director Unicode, Inc. Date/Time:Wed Jan 28 08:14:14 EST 200

Re: U+02C1 and U+02E4

2004-01-28 Thread Doug Ewell
Peter Kirk wrote: > Thank you, Doug. This is a useful test page for IPA support. It would > be even more useful if it attempted to display 02E5-02E9, perhaps with > a suitable note about limited support. Just to clarify for the list: The page does display the tone letters U+02E5 through U+02E9

Re: U+02C1 and U+02E4

2004-01-28 Thread Peter Kirk
On 27/01/2004 20:18, Doug Ewell wrote: Peter Kirk wrote: Well, I was thinking that it should be specified in the Unicode standard or character charts cf. the notes in the IPA extensions block and on 0346-034E. Maybe it is IPA's responsibility, but the link "IPA and Unicode" at their p

Re: U+02C1 and U+02E4

2004-01-28 Thread Doug Ewell
Peter Kirk wrote: > Well, I was thinking that it should be specified in the Unicode standard > or character charts cf. the notes in the IPA extensions block and on > 0346-034E. Maybe it is IPA's responsibility, but the link "IPA and > Unicode" at their page http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html