FW: Web Form: Other Question: Unicode Conversion in MySQL database

2004-02-09 Thread Magda Danish \(Unicode\)
Hello, I am posting your problem to the Unicode mailing list http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html. I hope someone on the list will have a suggestion for your problem. Regards, Magda Danish Administrative Director The Unicode Consortium +1 650-693-3921 -Original Message-

Public Review Issue #27

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Kirk
Was any decision made at the UTC meeting concerning Public Review Issue #27? I ask because I am waiting to encode a text which needs to use ZWJ and ZWNJ within combining character sequences (and for which there is already publicly available font support!), but I don't want to do anything which

Re: Web Form: Other Question: Unicode Conversion in MySQL database

2004-02-09 Thread Tim Greenwood
text-content into the system, the characters are automatically converted into a unicode format by the Database, something like _#_1_2_4_6_4_; This can happen (and is the correct action) when the character is not part of the repertoire of the character encoding of the web page. Ensure

Re: Public Review Issue #27

2004-02-09 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Was any decision made at the UTC meeting concerning Public Review Issue #27? I ask because I am waiting to encode a text which needs to use ZWJ and ZWNJ within combining character sequences (and for which there is already publicly available font support!), but I don't want to do anything

Re: Public Review Issue #27

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Kirk
On 09/02/2004 14:25, Kenneth Whistler wrote: Was any decision made at the UTC meeting concerning Public Review Issue #27? I ask because I am waiting to encode a text which needs to use ZWJ and ZWNJ within combining character sequences (and for which there is already publicly available font

RE: Public Review Issue #27

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Constable
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk The UTC decided to allow ZWJ/ZWNJ to occur in combining character sequences. Thank you. So I can do what I was wanting to do (Hebrew meteg combining sequences) with a clear conscience! Well, perhaps there is a step

Re: Public Review Issue #27

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Kirk
On 09/02/2004 14:37, Peter Constable wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk The UTC decided to allow ZWJ/ZWNJ to occur in combining character sequences. Thank you. So I can do what I was wanting to do (Hebrew meteg

Unified Canadian Syllabics

2004-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello I think I posted this to the list last week, but I haven't seen it come up. I would like to present to the Unicode community some suggestions for missing and mis-named characters related to the UCAS range. To properly describe the kinds of characters missing etc., many graphics are

Re: Public Review Issue #27

2004-02-09 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Peter C opined: Well, perhaps there is a step that's needed to propose representations for the alternate positions of meteg, one of these making use of ZWJ or ZWNJ (whichever) and to get UTC to approve that so that it's formally a part of the standard and, hence, an interoperable

Re: Unified Canadian Syllabics

2004-02-09 Thread Rick McGowan
Chris -- Note: I am not speaking officially, just giving my opinions. > http://www.languagegeek.com/issues/ucas_unicode.html Sorry I have no opinions at all about the major questions you are asking on the above page, and we probably need to involve some experts. The source documents for the

Re: Public Review Issue #27

2004-02-09 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 04:12 PM 2/9/2004, Kenneth Whistler wrote: That leaves item A. And it is mostly a matter of determining what is the best mechanism for getting people to know how they should spell the metegs with the minimum of confusion. Putting something in the Unicode Standard might be appropriate, or there

Re: Unified Canadian Syllabics

2004-02-09 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Chris Harvey wrote: I think I posted this to the list last week, but I haven't seen it come up. You may have run up against the size of message constraints currently imposed on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] email list because of the MyDoom virus. Some comments on particular issues: Misnamed