(Informational only: UTF-8 BOM and the real life)

2012-07-25 Thread Steven Atreju
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Re: (Informational only: UTF-8 BOM and the real life)

2012-07-25 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-07-26 0:19, Steven Atreju wrote: | And that was an Unicode BOM that has been converted to UTF-8 and then been converted to UTF-8 once again. Apparently the problem is that the data has been doubly encoded: first into UTF-8, then interpreting the bytes of UTF-8 data, interpreting

Re: (Informational only: UTF-8 BOM and the real life)

2012-07-25 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/25/2012 2:45 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: . One might even argue that the BOM is useful here, too, since it immediately signals that there is something wrong, and “” is an encoding error signature, so to say. +8 A./

CLDR and ICU

2012-07-25 Thread Richard Wordingham
What is the formal relationship between the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) and International Components for Unicode (ICU)? I ask for two reasons: I raised a ticket http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/5092 on a proposed clarificatory addition to UTS#35 'Locale Data Markup Language', and it

Re: CLDR and ICU

2012-07-25 Thread Ken Whistler
On 7/25/2012 5:01 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote: What is the formal relationship between the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) and International Components for Unicode (ICU)? ... The ICU implementation of collation tailoring for changed ordering is bizarre in some complicated cases. (Life

Re: CLDR and ICU

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Davis ☕
Mark https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033 * * *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* ** On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Richard Wordingham richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: What is the formal relationship between the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) and International

RE: Manipulation of System Fonts on Windows 7

2012-07-25 Thread Peter Constable
Changing the primary fonts used throughout the Windows 7 shell is not a supported scenario. If you were to install a Chinese language pack (available to you if you have an Ultimate or Enterprise license), then either Microsoft YaHei (for Simplified) or Microsoft JhengHei (for Traditional)