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

2004-04-08 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 characters. It

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

2004-04-08 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 10:49 PM 4/7/2004, Peter Constable wrote: , and the length it reports is the number of code units, not the number of characters or graphemes in the string. True; that is documented. However, that's very common; many APIs relating to UTF-8 would report the number of bytes, not the number of

CJK U+3ADA and U+66F6

2004-04-08 Thread jameskass
Is there a difference between U+66F6 and U+3ADA? The newest UNIHAN.TXT file doesn't have a definition field for U+66F6. The glyphs in the Unicode 4.0 book appear identical for these two characters. One is placed with radical 72, the other with radical 73, although UNIHAN.TXT gives both as

Re: CJK U+3ADA and U+66F6

2004-04-08 Thread Asmus Freytag
James, this is the kind of thing that you should report via our error reporting form. Here on the open list, it's liable to get lost (no-one owns excerpting issues from this forum). The contact form can be found on our home page under contact us. A./ At 12:03 PM 4/8/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CJK U+3ADA and U+66F6

2004-04-08 Thread John Jenkins
On Apr 8, 2004, at 1:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a difference between U+66F6 and U+3ADA? The newest UNIHAN.TXT file doesn't have a definition field for U+66F6. The glyphs in the Unicode 4.0 book appear identical for these two characters. One is placed with radical 72, the other

Re: CJK U+3ADA and U+66F6

2004-04-08 Thread jameskass
Asmus Freytag wrote, this is the kind of thing that you should report via our error reporting form. Here on the open list, it's liable to get lost (no-one owns excerpting issues from this forum). Before reporting it through proper channels, I wanted to try to find out which kind of error it

Re: Unicode 4.0.1 Released

2004-04-08 Thread John Jenkins
On Apr 2, 2004, at 4:38 AM, Andrew C. West wrote: For me 4.0.1 was a big disappointment. The much vaunted update of the Unihan database did not even clear up all the editorial errors in the database, let alone deal with the real problems of content, such as incorrect or dubious Mandarin,

Re: Unicode 4.0.1 Released

2004-04-08 Thread Richard S Cook
On Apr 8, 2004, at 04:29 PM, John Jenkins wrote: On Apr 2, 2004, at 4:38 AM, Andrew C. West wrote: For me 4.0.1 was a big disappointment. The much vaunted update of the Unihan database did not even clear up all the editorial errors in the database, let alone deal with the real problems of