Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Simon Montagu
On 10/15/2011 05:19 PM, Andreas Prilop wrote: I return to http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m10/att-0059/1999-12-31.html Microsoft programs (Internet Explorer, MS Word), display this as 31/12/1999 Other programs (Firefox, Opera, OpenOffice) display this as 1999/12/31

Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:42:02 +0200 From: Simon Montagu smont...@smontagu.org List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 On 10/15/2011 05:19 PM, Andreas Prilop wrote: I return to http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m10/att-0059/1999-12-31.html Microsoft programs (Internet

Re: definition of plain text

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Cyrus
Perhaps the idea of something embedded in the text that then controls the display of the subsequent run of text is the very definition of markup, whether or not that markup is a special character or an ASCII sequence like /spanspan style=gait:xxx; or /spanspan style=font:xxx;. On Mon, Oct 17,

Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Simon Montagu
On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:42:02 +0200 From: Simon Montagusmont...@smontagu.org List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 On 10/15/2011 05:19 PM, Andreas Prilop wrote: I return to

Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Krefting
Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org: Btw, according to my testing, the current Firefox displays this as 31/12/1999. I don't have Opera or OO to check there, but it's possible that the OP was using old versions of these that were still using the old Unicode data base. It still displays as

Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:35:39 +0200 From: Simon Montagu smont...@smontagu.org CC: unicode@unicode.org Sorry, I think I confused you here. I quoted the expected rendering in ASCII digits, but the testcase in fact uses Arabic-Indic digits. There's no difference in rendering of ASCII

Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Krefting
Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org: However, it could be that the confusion is mine, and it stems from the fact that the logical order of these characters was not stated by the OP. Is it 1999/12/31 or 31/12/1999 ? The logical order in the document that was cited is 1999/12/31 (١٩٩٩/١٢/٣١). I

MODIFIER LETTER ___ H WITH STROKE

2011-10-17 Thread philip chastney
the SIL PUA (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=PUA_home) is slowly being absorbed into TUS one character yet to be added is the U+F1BC MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H WITH STROKE the chart for Latin Extended-D (http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.1.0/charts/blocks/UA720.pdf) has

Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:40:02 +0100 From: Peter Krefting pe...@opera.com Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org: Btw, according to my testing, the current Firefox displays this as 31/12/1999. I don't have Opera or OO to check there, but it's possible that the OP was using old versions of

Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:09:06 +0100 From: Peter Krefting pe...@opera.com Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org: However, it could be that the confusion is mine, and it stems from the fact that the logical order of these characters was not stated by the OP. Is it 1999/12/31 or

Info on Copied Greek Letters/Symbols by Unicode Inc Attention Mark E. Shoulson

2011-10-17 Thread Tulasi
Attn: Mark E. Shoulson C/o Magda Danish Sr Administrative Director Unicode Inc mark @ kli.org, v-mag...@microsoft.com Appended are 3 threads in reverse chronological order highlighting Unicode Inc had in the past copied some letters/symbols from Greek script and then

Re: Info on Copied Greek Letters/Symbols by Unicode Inc Attention Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD
I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in further correspondence from you, and will consider any further communications from you to be harassment. On 2011-10-16 20:24, Tulasi wrote: Attn: Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD C/o Magda Danish Sr Administrative Director Unicode Inc

Info on Copied Greek Letters/Symbols by Unicode Inc Attention Chridtopher Fynn

2011-10-17 Thread Tulasi
Attn: Chridtopher Fynn C/o Magda Danish Sr Administrative Director Unicode Inc chris.f...@gmail.com, v-mag...@microsoft.com, Appended are 3 threads in reverse chronological order highlighting Unicode Inc had in the past copied some letters/symbols from Greek script and

Info on Copied Greek Letters/Symbols by Unicode Inc Attention vanisaac

2011-10-17 Thread Tulasi
Attn: vanisaac C/o Magda Danish Sr Administrative Director Unicode Inc vanis...@boil.afraid.org, v-mag...@microsoft.com, Appended are 3 threads in reverse chronological order highlighting Unicode Inc had in the past copied some letters/symbols from Greek script and then

Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Andreas Prilop
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote: However, it could be that the confusion is mine, and it stems from the fact that the logical order of these characters was not stated by the OP. You can read the source text, no?

Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Andreas Prilop
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Btw, according to my testing, the current Firefox displays this this is http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m10/att-0059/1999-12-31.html as 31/12/1999. Firefox 7 displays 1999/12/31.

Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:08:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Andreas Prilop prilop4...@trashmail.net List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Btw, according to my testing, the current Firefox displays this this is

Re: definition of plain text

2011-10-17 Thread Ken Whistler
On 10/17/2011 1:23 AM, Peter Cyrus wrote: Perhaps the idea of something embedded in the text that then controls the display of the subsequent run of text is the very definition of markup, whether or not that markup is a special character or an ASCII sequence like/spanspan style=gait:xxx;

Re: definition of plain text

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Cyrus
It's been done already : the International Phonetic Alphabet. If we all just wrote in that, it would make Unicode much easier to implement, too. I'm just working on Plan B, just in case. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Ken Whistler k...@sybase.com wrote: On 10/17/2011 1:23 AM, Peter Cyrus

Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

2011-10-17 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:57:33 +0200 Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org wrote: Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:08 +0100 From: Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 HTML 4.0 and 4.0.1 Section 8.2 Paragraph 3 Section 2 states, If a document does not

Re: This Kit changed all my life

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Re: definition of plain text

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Cyrus
Your idea of propagation seems worth exploring - thanks! On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:37:20 +0200 Peter Cyrus pcy...@alivox.net wrote: Perhaps, awkwardly.  But that is ultimately equivalent to marking the