RE: Behdad Esfahbod won an O'Reilly Open Source Award!

2013-07-29 Thread Erkki I Kolehmainen
I full-heartedly agree with Roozbeh and Mark and join them in congratulating Behdad! Erkki Lähettäjä: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] Puolesta Mark Davis ? Lähetetty: 30. heinäkuuta 2013 0:10 Vastaanottaja: Roozbeh Pournader Kopio: unicode@unicode.org; Behd

RE: Behdad Esfahbod won an O'Reilly Open Source Award!

2013-07-29 Thread Peter Constable
Congratulations on a great contribution. Peter From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Roozbeh Pournader Sent: July 29, 2013 12:42 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Cc: Behdad Esfahbod Subject: Behdad Esfahbod won an O'Reilly Open Source Award! Some of you pro

Re: Unicode code page and ☃.net

2013-07-29 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2013-07-30 4:03, Buck Golemon wrote: Also, some browsers have odd support for rendering unicode (non-ascii) urls, for "security" reasons. Both chrome and firefox under Windows 7 render http://www.☃.net/ as http://www.xn--n3h.net/ which is the ascii domain encoding (cal

Re: Ways to show Unicode contents on Windows?

2013-07-29 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 7/29/2013 4:25 PM, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:24:36AM +, Murray Sargent wrote: Ilya asked, " Are there any other ways to show Unicode on Windows?" You can download Unibook (http://www.unicode.org/unibook/) and set up your fonts for the ranges. That's the way The

Re: symbols/codepoints for necessity and possibility in modal logic

2013-07-29 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 04:00:26AM -0700, Stephan Stiller wrote: > >I'd consider U+22C4 DIAMOND OPERATOR as wrong because it is used > >as a binary operator > I'm thinking that "binary infix symbol" and "unary prefix symbol" > might be appropriate terminology too. > >which has a very different sp

Re: Ways to show Unicode contents on Windows?

2013-07-29 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:28:07AM +0100, Richard Wordingham wrote: > > Just in case: do you realize that out-of-BMP must be specified via > > LIGATURES section? > > Yes, for 'character' read UTF-16 code element. Even worse, you can't > use dead keys outside the BMP, which prevents one using MSK

Re: Ways to show Unicode contents on Windows?

2013-07-29 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:19:44AM +, Peter Constable wrote: > > Why would one NEED to upgrade the OS to use Old Italic? > You can't expect an OS like Windows XP to support Old Italic characters that weren't even defined in Unicode at the time it shipped. Yes I can. And did not you notice

Re: Ways to show Unicode contents on Windows?

2013-07-29 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:24:36AM +, Murray Sargent wrote: > Ilya asked, " Are there any other ways to show Unicode on Windows?" > > You can download Unibook (http://www.unicode.org/unibook/) and set up your > fonts for the ranges. That's the way The Unicode Standard code charts are > displ

Re: Unicode code page and ☃.net

2013-07-29 Thread Buck Golemon
James: Most likely you're encountering a font issue, rather than a unicode issue. It's entirely possible that the characters are being interpreted correctly, but the browser is using a font that doesn't support those characters. Also, some browsers have odd support for rendering unicode (non-ascii

Re: Unicode code page and ☃.net

2013-07-29 Thread Stephan Stiller
I have a question regarding the supported Unicode code page. There are no Unicode code pages. I guess there is the question of what exactly a codepage is when you consider complicated encodings, esp stateful ones. But I always think of Unicode as one giant abstract codepage, and Unicode cha

Re: Behdad Esfahbod won an O'Reilly Open Source Award!

2013-07-29 Thread Lisa Moore
Congratulations, Behdad...that is great! Lisa From: Roozbeh Pournader To: "unicode@unicode.org" , Cc: Behdad Esfahbod Date: 07/29/2013 01:42 PM Subject: Behdad Esfahbod won an O'Reilly Open Source Award! Sent by: unicode-bou...@unicode.org Some of you probably have heard the news alread

Re: Unicode code page and ☃.net

2013-07-29 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2013-07-29 23:42, James Lin wrote: I have a question regarding the supported Unicode code page. There are no Unicode code pages. I thought once you have unicode code page loaded, all glyph or character should be able to map and display correctly regardless of which OS or language you are usi

Re: Behdad Esfahbod won an O'Reilly Open Source Award!

2013-07-29 Thread Mark Davis ☕
Great news, and well deserved! Congratulations, Behdad! Mark * * *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* ** On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > Some of you probably have heard the news already, but in case you haven't, > Beh

Unicode code page and ☃.net

2013-07-29 Thread James Lin
Hi, I have a question regarding the supported Unicode code page. I thought once you have unicode code page loaded, all glyph or character should be able to map and display correctly regardless of which OS or language you are using? However, i have this snowman: ☃ but once i input www.☃.net into

Behdad Esfahbod won an O'Reilly Open Source Award!

2013-07-29 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Some of you probably have heard the news already, but in case you haven't, Behdad won the prestigious O'Reilly Open Source Award, announced last Friday. Here's the announcement: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/detail/29956 Selected quotes: "The O’Reilly Open Source Awards recogniz