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

2004-04-07 Thread Peter Constable
> > In the .Net Framework, the string class (System > > namespace) and the System.Globalization and System.Text > > namespaces *are* designed to be aware of supplementary plane > > characters. > IMHO, that's a bit misleading. The String class itself does not appear to > be > aware of SMP characte

Fin: names of the chars?

2004-04-07 Thread Tobias Stamm
Am 08.04.2004 um 06:32 schrieb Patrick Andries: * The valid English names of ISO 10646 are defined in Annex L of ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000(E) Rule 1 By convention, only Latin capital letters A to Z, space, and hyphen are used for writing the names of characters. NOTE – Names of characters may also

Re: names of the chars?

2004-04-07 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 09:11 PM 4/7/2004, Tobias Stamm wrote: Greetings to all standartisers! I'm new here so forgive me my stupidness. I just have one little question to which I didn't found the answer in the whole homepage: What is the standard of the characters names? You are looking for the character naming gu

Re: names of the chars?

2004-04-07 Thread Patrick Andries
Tobias Stamm a écrit : Greetings to all standartisers! I'm new here so forgive me my stupidness. I just have one little question to which I didn't found the answer in the whole homepage: What is the standard of the characters names? * The valid English names of ISO 10646 are defined in Annex

names of the chars?

2004-04-07 Thread Tobias Stamm
Greetings to all standartisers! I'm new here so forgive me my stupidness. I just have one little question to which I didn't found the answer in the whole homepage: What is the standard of the characters names? What I mean is: For example, the character A has the name "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A".

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

2004-04-07 Thread Michael Everson
At 13:29 -0700 2004-04-07, Richard Cook wrote: I see. I assumed the codepoint assignments were already firm. Never until the ballot is over. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

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

2004-04-07 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 01:29 PM 4/7/2004, Richard Cook wrote: On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Peter Constable wrote: > They were encoded that way some while before they were accepted in > Unicode. Also, until Unicode 4.1 is published, there is a possibility > that codepoints may change. I see. I assumed the codepoint assignments

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

2004-04-07 Thread Richard Cook
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Peter Constable wrote: > They were encoded that way some while before they were accepted in > Unicode. Also, until Unicode 4.1 is published, there is a possibility > that codepoints may change. I see. I assumed the codepoint assignments were already firm.

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

2004-04-07 Thread Peter Constable
They were encoded that way some while before they were accepted in Unicode. Also, until Unicode 4.1 is published, there is a possibility that codepoints may change. Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division > -Original Message-

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

2004-04-07 Thread Rick Cameron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Constable > Sent: April 7, 2004 0:52 > To: Unicode Mailing List > Subject: RE: Newbie questions: 1) Surrogates in WinXP? 2) > Unicode in PostScript? > > > In the .Net Framework, the string clas

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

2004-04-07 Thread Richard S Cook
On Apr 5, 2004, at 04:06 PM, Peter Constable wrote: 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, Why

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

2004-04-07 Thread Peter Constable
There's some discussion of support for supplementary-plane characters in WinXP at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/columns/018/default.mspx. There are also slide decks from some relevant presentations at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/presentations/23rd_Unicode_ Conf.mspx