Re: unidata is big

2002-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Waigh
> I would just like to know if someone could give me a tip on how to > structure all the unicode-information in memory? > > All the UNIDATA does contain quite a bit of information and I can't see > any obvious method of which is memory-efficient and gives fast access. a) you see if there is a Uni

Re: Problems with viewing Hindi Unicode Page

2002-01-26 Thread Geoffrey Waigh
> I don't know if its what Peter was referring to, but there are some > interesting crash bugs that can happen using Mangal or Latha on Win9x > -- since neither font is supported on Win9x this is obviously more > pilot error than product bug (unless it ever repro-ed with a font that > is okay to p

Re: Devanagari

2002-01-20 Thread Geoffrey Waigh
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Aman Chawla wrote: > Taking the extra links into account the sizes are: > English: 10.4 Kb > Devanagari: 15.0 Kb > Thus the Dev. page is 1.44 times the Eng. page. For sites providing archives > of documents/manuscripts (in plain text) in Devanagari, this factor could be > as

Re: What constitutes "character"?

2001-11-12 Thread Geoffrey Waigh
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Philipp Reichmuth wrote: > What if it is a character where nobody knows for > sure whether it is a character in its own right or a variant of some > sort, in orthography, style or whatever? > > What is necessary for two signs to constitute different characters in > cases such

Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

2001-10-23 Thread Geoffrey Waigh
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Darren Morby wrote: > In The Unicode Standard Version 3.0, the Latin small letters d l and t with > caron (U+010F, U+013E, U+0165) are actually shown with a trailing apostrophe > (d', l', t'). On each character there is the following note: > > the form using apostrophe is p

Re: GB18030

2001-09-26 Thread Geoffrey Waigh
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Yung-Fong Tang wrote: > how can you implement tolower(U+4ff3a) without knowing what U+4ff3a is ? With a data table. One set of debugged code that handles surrogates, composing characters, bidirectionality etc. coupled with a datafile that gets upgraded with each release of

Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread

2001-02-25 Thread Geoffrey Waigh
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, William Overington wrote: [reams on the notion that the forces of glyph encoding may overwhelm the defenders of Unicode.] Well yes, people are free to tunnel anything they like in the PUA and assuming their Unicode applications are willing to allow much larger datafields tha

Re: Acronyms (off-topic)

2000-08-02 Thread Geoffrey Waigh
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Alain LaBonté  wrote: > À 07:12 2000-07-11 -0800, Doug Ewell a écrit: > >Many English speakers also think ISO is an abbreviation or initialism > >(not "acronym"; that term is correct only when the resulting "word" > >is actually pronounced, like "AIDS" or "SIDA") of the Englis

Re: Euro character in ISO

2000-07-11 Thread Geoffrey Waigh
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > At 15:30 -0800 on 07/11/00, Asmus Freytag wrote about Re: Euro > character in ISO: > > >There has been an attempt to create a series of 'touched up' 8859 > >standards. The problem with these is that you get all the issues of > >character