RE: Filenames with non-Ascii characters

u can open the filename with non ascii characters with char * or wchar_t when u use wchar_t it is independent of locale settings when using char * ur system locale must be that particular language ( for eg japan in ur case) DC -Original Message- From: Dipti Srivastava [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Filenames with non-Ascii characters

What if the filename contains contains Japanese characters e.g. the Japanese file separator. Dipti -Original Message- From: Kenneth Whistler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 6:33 PM To: Dipti Srivastava Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Filenames with non-Ascii ch

Re: Filenames with non-Ascii characters

Dipti Srivastava asked: > If I set my LC_TYPE to en_US.UTF8 do I need to convert the non-Ascii > characters like > '\' in the filename for functions like open, etc. '\' *is* an ASCII character. 0x5C in ASCII to be exact. It is also 0x5C in UTF-8, so no (other) conversion is required. UTF-8 is de

Sinhala Numbers

What is the current status of the archaic Sinhala numbers found in N 1473R? [1] Is there any attempt being made to add them to the either the Sinhala block or a new two row Sinhala Numbers block? (Yes, I know that there are enough empty spaces in the Sinhala block for them, but not if all twenty

Filenames with non-Ascii characters

Hi, If I set my LC_TYPE to en_US.UTF8 do I need to convert the non-Ascii characters like '\' in the filename for functions like open, etc. Thanks, Dipti

Re: websites

I have noticed a lot of Japanese sites use shift-jis, why is this? Because it's like ASCII for Japanese characters. It seems the number of utf-8 encoded Japanese and English sites are increasing as defaults for some (or most?) blog systems / hosting services are utf-8. - kida On 2004/02/23, at

Re: Archives

: "Rick McGowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Yahoo "Unicode" group seems to have gone away. It disappeared a while > ago. I went looking for it a few weeks ago and can't find it. I have no > furtehr information. It's probably a good thing the Yahoo "Unicode" group went away. Last time I lo

New Public Review Issue

The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page: http://www.unicode.org/review/ Review periods for the new item closes on June 8, 2004. Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents. Brie

RE: Mother Language Day

Title: RE: Mother Language Day > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Frank Yung-Fong Tang > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:00 PM > joe wrote: > >  > >  > (Hmm, in Russian "mother language" (maternij jazik) means something >  > *verry* different. >  > >  > Wa

RE: Mother Language Day

joe wrote: > > (Hmm, in Russian "mother language" (maternij jazik) means something > *verry* different. > > Watch your language! ;-) He write this in English not Russian, right? How can I "watch Chinese (my language)" ? > > Joe

Re: websites

- Original Message - From: "Jon Hanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 7:05 PM Subject: Re: websites > Quoting Chris Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > In any case, browsers that don't support UTF-8 and UTF-16 are now a very > > > small minor

Re: Archives

John Snow asked: > I went to have a look at the archives on Yahoo Groups and can't seem to > find them! Can anybody give me the exact URL The Yahoo "Unicode" group seems to have gone away. It disappeared a while ago. I went looking for it a few weeks ago and can't find it. I have no furtehr i

Re: websites

Quoting Chris Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In any case, browsers that don't support UTF-8 and UTF-16 are now a very > > small minority. > > In the browser I use I can change the charset if the browser had it wrong. > The charsets I can choose from don't include UTF-16. > > Maybe this browser

Re: Archives

- Original Message - From: "John Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:34 PM Subject: Archives > I went to have a look at the archives on Yahoo Groups and can't seem to > find them! Can anybody give me the exact URL I am pretty sure this _w

Re: websites

> In any case, browsers that don't support UTF-8 and UTF-16 are now a very > small minority. In the browser I use I can change the charset if the browser had it wrong. The charsets I can choose from don't include UTF-16. Maybe this browser is one of this very small minority which don't support U

RE: unicode format

Mark, Markus did a good job of describing that advantages of each. The problem that I see is that there are applications that are not enabled to do BOM processing and convert from little-endian to big-endian and the other way around. Are there any browsers that support Unicode but will not do

Small boxes (was: Re: websites)

Mayamin Dhall wrote: > We have to use a CMS called Red Dot (browser based) to manage the > organization's website. I cut and pasted some text in Gujarati into > the HTML text Editor, but all I got was small boxes. Could anyone > please tell me what is going wrong here? Assuming the text in quest

RE: websites

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Mayamin Dhall > We have to use a CMS called Red Dot (browser based) to manage the organization's > website. I cut and pasted some text in Gujarati into the HTML text Editor, but all I got > was small boxes. Could anyone please tel

Re: unicode format

It is important to distinguish two cases: (a) which UTF one should emit in web pages , (b) which UTF one should use for internal processing. There is a tech note about this at http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn12/ Mark __ http://www.macchiato.com â

Re: unicode format

John Cowan wrote: > steve scripsit: > > > Could someone please clarify the difference between UTF8 and UFT16 > > please? If it is possible to encode everything in UTF8 and it is more > > efficient what is the need for UTF16? It is more efficient to PROCESS in UTF16.

Re: websites

Hi all, We have to use a CMS called Red Dot (browser based) to manage the organization's website. I cut and pasted some text in Gujarati into the HTML text Editor, but all I got was small boxes. Could anyone please tell me what is going wrong here? Thanks, Mayamin Mayamin Dhall Tel.No 020 77

Re: unicode format

steve scripsit: > Could someone please clarify the difference between UTF8 and UFT16 > please? If it is possible to encode everything in UTF8 and it is more > efficient what is the need for UTF16? The short version is that in UTF-8, characters can occupy 1, 2, 3, or (very rarely) 4 bytes; in UTF

Re: websites

Quoting steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > To create a multilingual webiste would it be best to use UFT8 encoding? Using UTF-8 or UTF-16 would make a lot of things easier, given that they can handle the entire repetoire of Unicode directly (without the need for escape sequences). UTF-16

Archives

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unicode format

Hello, Could someone please clarify the difference between UTF8 and UFT16 please? If it is possible to encode everything in UTF8 and it is more efficient what is the need for UTF16? Thak you, Steve. Steve Bartwhistle Technology Director http://www.appliedlanguage.com Translation services

websites

Hello, To create a multilingual webiste would it be best to use UFT8 encoding? I have noticed a lot of Japanese sites use shift-jis, why is this? Do all browsers support unicode now? Thank you for your help, Steve. Steve Bartwhistle Technology Director http://www.appliedlanguage.com Tran

Re: [OT?] Modifying (Unicode) sorting of languages using diacritics in MS Word and MS SQL Server

From: "Patrick Andries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have the same question for MS SQL Server 2000... Similar answer to the one Chris gave for Word, though with a slightly older version of the Windows sort tables > Finally, I would like to know if it is possible for a user to add > an ad