RE: [mo/mol] and [ro/ron/rum]

2004-08-14 Thread Peter Constable
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Doug Ewell > Seeing that Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian have been given their own > separate ISO 639 codes, for almost purely political reasons (they are > dialects), I doubt it's necessary to worry about erasing the political > d

Re: valid characters in user names- esp. compatibility characters

2004-08-14 Thread Eric Muller
Tex Texin wrote: However, I am curious as to whether some Users might read/write their names using compatibility characters (esp. in ideographic markets) and object to the characters being normalized through nfkc. There is a further problem there, because the CJK compatibility characters have a

Re: [mo/mol] and [ro/ron/rum]

2004-08-14 Thread Doug Ewell
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote: > As for your question: both governments (and "their" people), while > keeping their armies and recyprocal independence (for now), agree > that it is the same language, even if they may some day disagree about > its name. (E.g., the 19th cent. saw a number of war

Re: XML and Unicode interoperability comes before HTML or even SGML

2004-08-14 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy wrote: > Shamely, I wish I knew which real English word you mean by this. "Shamefully"? "Sadly"? "Unfortunately"? "Embarrassingly"? > the idea of "block-level" and "inline" elements is specific to HTML, > but HTML today is an application of XML, and the problem must be > solve

RE: [mo/mol] and [ro/ron/rum]

2004-08-14 Thread Peter Constable
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin > protective and patronizing, and be then offensive for real. PC does > back fire very often.) I do??! :-0 Peter Constable

Re: XML and Unicode interoperability comes before HTML or even SGML (was: Combining across markup?)

2004-08-14 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
W liście z sob, 14-08-2004, godz. 12:35 +0200, Philippe Verdy napisał: > Simply because, for both Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646, the character > model includes the fact that ANY base character forms a combining > character sequence with ANY following combining character or ZW(N)J > character. Shouldn

Re: [mo/mol] and [ro/ron/rum]

2004-08-14 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2004.08.13, 22:47, Peter Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should be careful to listen to users from small countries rather > than impose on them a western guess about a situation Moldavia and Roumania are both "western". And not really that small. And both have an ISO representative, or at

Re: XML and Unicode interoperability comes before HTML or even SGML (was: Combining across markup?)

2004-08-14 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 2004.08.11, 18:58, Mike Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Better yet, have a generic mechanism which allows you to build > > Even better yet: Have the WC3 rephrase their demand that no element > should start with a defective sequence

Re: [hebrew] ZW(N)J usage, why D17 changed the character model (was: Holam discussion and decision at UTC)

2004-08-14 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No. There may have been an ambiguity there which you grasped at, but > its roots were not deep, and the text will be altered. ZWNJ and ZWJ > are intended for cursive scripts like Arabic and Brahmic (...) Hic! Wasn't ZWNJ also defined to control ligatur