Re: Umlaut and Tréma, was: Variation selectors and vowel marks

2004-07-15 Thread Dominikus Scherkl \(MGW\)
ombination of diacritics for an umlaut + something else, because in german such combinations simply doesn't exist. Only the tréma alone could be confused. -- Viele Grüße aus Gernsheim Dominikus Scherkl

Re: Problems Reading Saved Files With Unicode Names

2004-07-12 Thread Dominikus Scherkl \(MGW\)
ROM/'my??file' Windows/D/my__file should work. PS: you may get bootable cd-images from several sources for free - try searching for 'knoppix', this doesn't need anything to install, simply running from the CD (after burning it, of course) -- Viele Grüße aus Gernsheim Dominikus Scherkl

Re: Updated UTF-8 Magic Pocket Encoder

2004-07-08 Thread Dominikus Scherkl \(MGW\)
> ++---+---+ Vers. 1.0 | 0=00 | > | U+0080 | 3x xy | 2y zz | 16 March 2000 | 1=01 | Oha? Updated without changing version and date? ;-) -- Viele Grüße aus Gernsheim Dominikus Scherkl

Re: [BULK] - Re: Vertical BIDI

2004-05-28 Thread Dominikus Scherkl \(MGW\)
. That is unsatisfactoring. This was the only reason (as far as I can see) to propose a LR_BT value for the direction. -- Dominikus Scherkl

Re: Fraktur Legibility

2004-05-25 Thread Dominikus Scherkl \(MGW\)
to be read at all? -- Dominikus Scherkl

Re: Multiple Directions (was: Re: Coptic/Greek (Re: Phoenician))

2004-05-17 Thread Dominikus Scherkl \(MGW\)
t;). einundzwanzigtausend ^ Best regards, -- Dominikus Scherkl

Re: New contribution

2004-05-04 Thread Dominikus Scherkl \(MGW\)
true especialy for Klingon, but it's also not true for e.g. fraktur, because fraktur is the derived script, not latin. -- Dominikus Scherkl

Re: What is the principle?

2004-03-30 Thread Dominikus Scherkl \(MGW\)
ey are using allows them to define. I would expect any application to allow _all_ properties to be defined by the user for each and any PUA charakter. If not so, it's a bug in the application! (at least if it can handle charakters with the same properties elsewhere in the Unicode.) -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: per-character "stories" in a database

2003-03-14 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
ter added?!? :-). Where do all this wonderful information goes after adding? Best regards. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: New document.

2003-03-13 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
- or was it and was rejected for some reason?!?). Best regards. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: sorting order between win98/xp

2003-03-12 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
ts by their encoding-value (this is the cause it was not implemented before), but I prefer it always very much. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: sorting order between win98/xp

2003-03-12 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
ed before 10). > Anyone know is there a way to make them sort in the same > order? Why should anybody want that? > Anyone know why the sort order is different under that two systems? As I mentioned: a new feature, keeping numbers ordered numerical. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: guarani sign

2003-02-24 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
t; with "COMBINING LONG VERTICAL LINE OVERLAY" U+20D2 or "COMBINING DOUBLE VERTICAL STROKE OVERLAY" U+20E6 ? (also usable for dollar and other currency symbols). -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wrong Charakter Categories (was: Hot Beverage font)

2003-02-19 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
a fair number of characters. Best regards, Dominikus === Besuchen Sie Glück & Kanja auf der CeBIT: Halle 17, Stand C31/25 Live Demo: CryptoEx Gateway - E-Mail-Sicherheit mit einem Server! ===

RE: Country names in native script

2003-01-21 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
;Amadëus" - and is almost omitted because the letter is missing on (most) german typewriters / keyboards. And the acute in your example doesn't even look like a typo - more like a nose (too much ink), because it isn't quite in the right position. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Small Latin Letter m with Macron

2003-01-16 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
> the spelling "i. e." would [not] distort the content of "that is" ? "i. e." is an latin abbreviation for "in exemplum" meaning "for example" not "that is". (or am I not even average at english?!?) -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: N2525 and N2526

2002-11-26 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
new" features like movies etc. which may not even work on older versions of the Acrobat-Reader). Best regards. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: The result of the plane 14 tag characters review.

2002-11-18 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
TXT" with a plain-text editor. These files are very common - and if they're not deprecated using plane-14-tags would be very nice to have in an multi-language readme (where higher-level tagging is not available). Best regards. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: The result of the plane 14 tag characters review.

2002-11-13 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
t 3 characters (two tag-letters and the end-tag) - this is 12 bytes. Ok, this is less heavy, but not very much. Or what do you think what "weight" in this context means?!? Best regards. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Speaking of Plane 1 characters...

2002-11-12 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
replaced by ordinary division or multiplication by twopowers and the bitwise-and & is equivalent to a modulo-operation. But that is slower (relevant only for realy high-speed converters ;-). Best regards. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Question: the german umlaut

2002-11-11 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
sable by zip or comparable algorithms. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Is long s a presentation form?

2002-11-08 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
r font may decide to represent all s except the ending-s as long-s (where "ending" may be in the middle of concatenated words). Best regards. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures

2002-11-07 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
where several publishers have changed to computer-typesetting systems) over strange places to hyphenate or ligate glyphs. It sometimes had made me very angry how sloopy books are typeset nowadays. > Are the German ligation rules backed up by any empirical > studies of the ways in which co

RE: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures

2002-11-06 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
eadings where sylables are gathered the wrong way which don't make any sense at all. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: In defense of Plane 14 language tags (long)

2002-11-04 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
e tags - thus the text will appear to any other user as intended by the use of the tags (even to the author as "user"). I found the arguments quite convincing - why deprecate the tags? Noone has till now brought an argument to deprecate them... -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Character identities

2002-11-01 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
matted document, where additional information like the font to use is available anyway - so in such documents a different font for foreign words may be used or whatever is nessessary until the text looks as the author wishes it to. But this is not a matter of unicode. Best regards -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures

2002-11-01 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
> rather exotic ones like st. this one is VERY common in german. But anyway - ligatures are depecated, you shouldn't use them. And no new ligatures will be added. It's up to a font (or display renderer) to ligate characters. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: New Charakter Proposal

2002-10-31 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
ed the text (in our case a small tool decoding encrypted messages - which will never see the text again). And leaving any other mark in the text is at least non-standard, so most unicode-tools can't use it (which is our goal). But ok, it is not that important. Would only be nice. Best regard

RE: New Charakter Proposal

2002-10-30 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
Markus Scherer wrote: > Dominikus Scherkl wrote: > > My other suggestion (and the main reason to call the proposed > > charakter "source failure indicator symbol" (SFIS)) was intended > > especaly for mall-formed utf-8 input that has overlong encodings. > This

RE: Character identities

2002-10-30 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
have a breve, even if it may conflict with another charakter. If you got a text with such ambiguities, why don't use another font for the quotings? - has the additional advantage of pointing out visualy that it's a quotation. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: New Charakter Proposal

2002-10-30 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
thought over this in detail. But I think there are charsets which differ from others only in that they left several codepoints undefined while newer versions define them (eg. the euro-symbol). If there is a high probability that a specific character is intended, the SFIS mechanism is advantageous, I think. Best Regards. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New Charakter Proposal

2002-10-30 Thread Dominikus Scherkl
ybody else think it might be useful. Best Regards. -- Dominikus Scherkl [EMAIL PROTECTED]