Wachstube

2004-04-04 Thread Chris Jacobs
I propose nothing. I don't even mention the possibility of anything to make a full phonetic representation, merely something which could be used, by those who want to mark up text in that way (although many will choose not to), to distinguish between words with the same spelling but different

Re: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying DependentVowels)

2004-04-04 Thread Michael Everson
Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] write: But the good screen reader would still need to distinguish their pronunciations. Is there any type of character which could be defined, in Unicode, to preserve this distinction, but to be completely hidden in display? Perhaps some kind of zero width

[ot] Re: Wachstube

2004-04-04 Thread Thomas Kuehne
Am Sonntag, 4. April 2004 12:39 schrieb Chris Jacobs: By the way, am I correct in assuming that a Wachstube is a big transparant perspex tube used as a greenhouse? Wachs|tube: collapsible tube containing wax Wach|stube: guard parlour or a tiny police station with a single room

Re: Fixed Width Spaces

2004-04-04 Thread Philippe Verdy
- Original Message - From: Ernest Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Unicode Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 4:30 AM Subject: Re: Fixed Width Spaces [Original Message] From: Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is

Re: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying DependentVowels)

2004-04-04 Thread Eric Muller
Kenneth Whistler wrote: Uh, no. ZWNBSP, SPACE, ZWNBSP is equivalent to NBSP. I suspect that equivalent is only for some aspects. In particular, NBSP has a bidi category of CS, which means that A 0NBSP7 B (in bidi notation) displays as B 0 7 A, while A 0ZWNBSP, SPACE, ZWNBSP7 B displays as

Re: Newbie questions: 1) Surrogates in WinXP? 2) Unicode in PostScript?

2004-04-04 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Dan Smith said on Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 03:04:22PM -0500,: 1) The documentation we've found for Unicode support in Windows seems vague on how Unicode is implemented. A good deal of it seems to imply that a character is always represented by exactly two bytes, no more, no less, under all