RE: Fixed Width Spaces

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Title: RE: Fixed Width Spaces > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Peter Kirk > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 3:09 PM > Mike's nonsencical > statements that all legal texts are necessarily highly marked up.     Now I'm certain that you are trolling.  I ma

RE: Doulos SIL (was: French typographic thin space)

2004-04-05 Thread Peter Constable
> FYI, there is a new release (as of 1 April) of Doulos SIL at > http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSILfont, a free download, regular typeface > only. BTW, this font has most of the recently-approved phonetic symbols (encoded as PUA characters). Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure an

Re: Fixed Width Spaces

2004-04-05 Thread Peter Kirk
On 05/04/2004 13:47, Michael Everson wrote: At 13:35 -0700 2004-04-05, Peter Kirk wrote: The implication here is that plain text Unicode would be used for legal documents. Given that my lawyer would send me emails in highly marked up format, I find this very difficult to grasp. Is th

Re: Fixed Width Spaces

2004-04-05 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike Ayers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Unicode Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 10:35 PM Subject: Re: Fixed Width Spaces > On 05/04/2004 10:14, Mike Ayers wrote: > > The implication here is that plain text Unicode wou

RE: Fixed Width Spaces

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Title: RE: Fixed Width Spaces > From: Peter Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 1:36 PM > Evidence attached - one of many such legal texts on my > computer, nearly > all plain text only.     I'm really beginning to believe you're just trolling here. /|/

Re: Fixed Width Spaces

2004-04-05 Thread Michael Everson
At 13:35 -0700 2004-04-05, Peter Kirk wrote: The implication here is that plain text Unicode would be used for legal documents. Given that my lawyer would send me emails in highly marked up format, I find this very difficult to grasp. Is there any evidence that plain text is even bein

Re: Fixed Width Spaces

2004-04-05 Thread Peter Kirk
On 05/04/2004 10:14, Mike Ayers wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Philippe Verdy > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 7:56 AM > Yes but NBSP cannot be used in most books or in some legal > accounting documents, > due to its too large minimum width which allows a digi

Re: [ot] Re: Wachstube

2004-04-05 Thread Kenneth Whistler
> 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 Wax|tube: a. collapsible tube containing wax b. tube whose walls are co

RE: Fixed Width Spaces

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Title: RE: Fixed Width Spaces > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Philippe Verdy > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 7:56 AM > Yes but NBSP cannot be used in most books or in some legal > accounting documents, > due to its too large minimum width which allows a di

RE: Re[4]: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying Depen dentVowels)

2004-04-05 Thread Mike Ayers
Title: RE: Re[4]: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying Depen dentVowels) > From: Alexander Savenkov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 3:23 AM > >> That is arguable. An aural user agent could pronounce "1, > 2, 3" a bit > >> different from "1, 2, 3" if

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

2004-04-05 Thread Benjamin Peterson
The article shows how to enable OS support for surrogates in fonts and IMEs, but it is helpful to bear in mind that applications tend not to care. For instance SQL server does not correctly sort surrogates -- although it doesn't split or truncate them either (which is an improvement over the com

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

2004-04-05 Thread Carl W. Brown
Benjamin, > Versions up until Windows 2000 use UCS-2 internally. 2000 and XP use > UTF-16, although applications tend to have differing levels of awareness > about surrogates. You can enable Win2K surrogate support http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/unicod e_1

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

2004-04-05 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Versions up until Windows 2000 use UCS-2 internally. 2000 and XP use UTF-16, although applications tend to have differing levels of awareness about surrogates. Regardless of whether UCS-2 or UTF-16 is used, Microsoft documentation always refers to any unicode encoding as 'Unicode'. I attribu

RE: New Currency sign in Unicode

2004-04-05 Thread Kyekyeku.Opoku-Pong
Thank you all for your interest in our question about the cedi sign. Just as it has been noticed the cedi has been represented in many different ways in print but any Ghanaian knows that the original sign is a capital 'C' with a slash, see http://www.banknotes.com/GH5.JPG. Yes, the Ghanaian ce