New Public Review Issue posted

2004-09-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page: http://www.unicode.org/review/ Review period for the new item closes on November 11, 2004. Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.

UTR #17 now available

2004-09-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Unicode Technical Committee is pleased to announce the availability of a new fully-approved version of Unicode Technical Report #17: Character Encoding Model. It may be obtained at the following URLs: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr17/ This report describes a model for the

Public Review Issue: UAX #24 Proposed Update

2004-09-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page: http://www.unicode.org/review/ Review periods for the new items close on November 8, 2004. Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.

Two new Public Review Issues posted

2004-09-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Unicode Technical Committee has posted two new issues for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page: http://www.unicode.org/review/ Review periods for the new items close on November 8, 2004. Briefly, the new issues are: 44 Bidi Category of Fullwidth

Re: RE: Public Review Issue: UAX #24 Proposed Update

2004-09-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jony wrote, FB1D, HEBREW LETTER YOD WITH HIRIQ, should be assigned to the unknown group. It is not a Hebrew character, notwithstanding the misleading name. Hmmm... Are you claiming that HEBREW LETTER YOD (the base character of the codepoint U+FB1D) is not a letter of the Hebrew script, and

Re: markup on combining characters

2004-09-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Philippe Verdy wrote, re Public Review Issue #41: I don't know if a formal proposal has been sent to ISO/IEC WG too. Yes. In fact, the PRI document itself says WG2 N2822. It *has* gone to WG2 as well as to UTC. Rick

Public Review Issue: UTR #17 Proposed Draft

2004-09-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page: http://www.unicode.org/review/ Review periods for the new items close on November 8, 2004. Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.

Public Review Issue: UAX #34 Proposed Draft

2004-09-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm sorry to report that the subject line of my previous note today was incorrect. The correct subject line should say UAX #34, and it is UAX #34 which has been released for public review. http://www.unicode.org/review/ Regards, Rick McGowan Unicode, Inc.

Re: Common Locale Data Repository Project

2004-04-23 Thread Hideki Hiura - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Peter Constable [EMAIL PROTECTED] due to the strong perception of OpenI18N.org as opensource/Linux advocates, even though CLDR project is not specifically bound to Linux. It is hard to look at OpenI18N.org's spec and not get the impression that all of that group's projects

Re: Common Locale Data Repository Project

2004-04-22 Thread Hideki Hiura - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that a contribution of the Unicode Consortium to the OpenI18n.org project (former li18nux.org, maintained with most help from the FSF), or a decision to make the OpenI18n.org project be more open by pushing it to a more visible standard? More

RE: OT? Languages with letters that always take diacriticals

2004-03-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A number of North American Native languages use a character+diacritic when no character-diacritic exists. -Romanised Cree has ē but no e -Some west-coast Salishan languages have LATIN LAMBDA WITH STROKE+COMBINING COMMA ABOVE, but no plain LATIN LAMBDA WITH STROKE -a number of languages (e.g.

Re: Canadian Unified Syllabics

2004-02-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Here are some comments about UCAS suggestions. * Encode the pages as compliantly as possible.(Also about the overuse of PUA on my website languagegeek.com) -I spent all night making Unicode-only versions of the syllabics pages where appropriate. In the end, for Carrier and Blackfoot, it

Re: Canadian Unified Syllabics

2004-02-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. Make your recommendation either for encoding 3 separate things, or for use of variation selectors; or put the issue out for the committee to decide. I would recommend that three invisible (I don't know the technical term) characters be adden, base-line final, mid-line final, and top-line

Re: Canadian Unified Syllabics

2004-02-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello I would like to make a few comments about the Aboriginal Serif font. First, the reason for putting so many characters in the PUA is as follows. For Blackfoot, Dene, Cree (some dialects), and Ojibway (some dialects), some important characters are missing to write these languages properly.

Unified Canadian Syllabics

2004-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello I think I posted this to the list last week, but I haven't seen it come up. I would like to present to the Unicode community some suggestions for missing and mis-named characters related to the UCAS range. To properly describe the kinds of characters missing etc., many graphics are

FYI: CLAW 2003

2002-11-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FYI: Controlled Language Applications Workshop http://www.eamt.org/eamt-claw03/ Bev -- www.enso-company.com * [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Bev Corwin

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2002-01-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Devanagari on MacOS 9.2 and IE 5.1

2002-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I spoke to fast. Upon taking a closer look at the file, the font was not set properly. MacOS 9.2, Indian Language Kit, Mac IE 5.1 and Devanagari MT as font face seem to display UTF-8 encoded Hindi just fine. Etienne Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:24:16 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Devanagari

2002-01-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that the Mac version of IE does not support Hindi without a hack? Etienne Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christopher J Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Aman Chawla [EMAIL PROTECTED] RE: DevanagariDate: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:59:38 +0600 Aman Here in Bhutan the Internet connection is still much

ISCII-Unicode Conversion

2001-11-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Would anybody be able to point me to possible ISCII-Unicode conversion utilities/APIs? How reliable is the conversion? How well is Hindi supported by the UTF8-Internet Explorer combination? Your expertise is GREATLY appreciated. Best, Etienne

RE: Terms constructed script, invented script (was: FW: Re: Shavian)

2001-07-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odd. I've always considered Japanese "double consonants" to be glottal stops. Could anyone please explain the difference? They are glottal stops. But Japanese writing doesn't have a (standard) means of expressing a glottally stopped vowel pair. It only can express consonants. One

Re: Terms constructed script, invented script (was: FW: Re: Shavian)

2001-07-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hiragana (and katakana) assume certain things about the syllabic structure, specifically that syllables are of the form [C] V [C], where the trailing consonant (if any) must be "n". Yes, but, kana _has_ been used even natively in comics and so forth, to end words with other consonants (i.e.,

Re: Shavian

2001-07-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... A lot of the arguments against Klingon weren't specificially against Klingon; That was in WG2, I guess... The most recent discussion material that UTC saw is a document I wrote, which is solely about Klingon and reasons for rejecting

Re: GBK, HZ and EUC-TW

2001-01-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lars Garshol wrote: * Tom Emerson | | As far as mapping tables go, the best one you'll find is the | Microsoft or ICU mapping tables. I personally have not seen an | official mapping table from GB 13000. As others have noted, | Microsoft has extended the "pure" GBK with Euro, and