New Public Review Issue posted

2004-12-22 Thread Rick McGowan
The CLDR Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page: http://www.unicode.org/review/#pri58 Review periods for the new items close on January 31, 2005. Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents. B

Re: Is it roundtripping or transfer-encoding

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Kirk
On 22/12/2004 07:07, Doug Ewell wrote: Philippe Verdy wrote: Unicode defines only 4 *standard* normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD), but other *non-standard* normalization forms are possible: But should not be used. It can be tricky enough getting the four standard ones right as it

Re: Is it roundtripping or transfer-encoding

2004-12-22 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Philippe Verdy wrote: Unicode defines only 4 *standard* normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD), but other *non-standard* normalization forms are possible: But should not be used. It can be tricky enough getting the four standard ones right as it is. Wron

Re: Is it roundtripping or transfer-encoding

2004-12-22 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Philippe Verdy wrote: Wrong. Non-standard normalization forms are useful too, and can even be safe if they preserve one of the two standard equivalences (canonical or compatibility). I agree that non-standard normalization forms may have benefits, as in your

Job postings on the Unicode list

2004-12-22 Thread Sarasvati
Dear Friends, Please remember that job postings of any kind are absolutely forbidden on the Unicode mail list. The posting that referred to Keio University has been removed from the archives. For further information about mail list policies, please see http://www.unicode.org/policies/mail_policy.

NEH Support for Unicode Script Encoding Project

2004-12-22 Thread Deborah W. Anderson
I have some good news to report: The National Endowment for the Humanities has just approved funding for the "Universal Scripts Project", which is a continuation of the "Script Encoding Initiative" started two years ago at UC Berkeley. This funding provides a solid beginning for work on Unicode

RE: Is it roundtripping or transfer-encoding

2004-12-22 Thread Lars Kristan
Title: RE: Is it roundtripping or transfer-encoding Philippe Verdy wrote: > Please don't use the term "normalize" in this context. > Normalization in > Unicode involves transformation of the stream of *code > points*, but is > independant of their encoding form or encoding scheme. Yes,

New I18N position at W3C/Keio University

2004-12-22 Thread Martin Duerst
Dear friends, colleagues, everybody, W3C has opened a position in Internationalization at Keio University in Japan, because I'm leaving the W3C Team at the end of March. For details, please see http://www.w3.org/2004/12/i18nposition. For other open positions at W3C, please see http://www.w3.org/Con

Re: Is it roundtripping or transfer-encoding

2004-12-22 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy wrote: >>> Unicode defines only 4 *standard* normalization forms (NFC, NFD, >>> NFKC, NFKD), but other *non-standard* normalization forms are >>> possible: >> >> But should not be used. It can be tricky enough getting the four >> standard ones right as it is. > > Wrong. Non-standa