Thanks for the corrections, Doug!
Clive
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From: Doug Ewell [mailto:d...@ewellic.org]
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 5:00 PM
To: Hohberger, Clive
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: RE: 8 bits preference?
Hohberger, Clive CHohberger at zebra dot com wrote:
IBM used 6-bit
Several years ago I wrote an English language compression routine for bar codes
which encoded the, an, and, etc. as single byte values. What I then
discovered is that the biggest remaining single waste of codewords in English
text is the spaces between words!!
When I went back and recoded
Title: RE: bit notation in ISO-8859-x is wrong
Mike,
I
agree with you... almost.. I think that AD and BC are really ordinal numbers,
which denote relative position in a series from a 1-origin point. I thought "1
AD" really stands for "primo anno domine" (pardon my forgotten Latin) or
"first
Michael,
This is a brilliant write-up!
Has some one done the same for Xhosa and !Kung?
Cheers,
Clive
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I actually don't think anyone would really say
"be-f***ing-hind" - it
Yes, they
would. I can't say for sure whether or not I've heard this exact one
before, but I can say that its valid Yankspeak.
/|/|ike [Hohber
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From: Carl W. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: W3C Objects To Royalties On ISO Country Codes
Michael,
Tim Berners-Lee has sent a letter of concern to the president of
ISO about the idea of
On 19/08/2003 21:25, Jungshik Shin wrote:
I have no idea whether that's the same conference, but in early 1970's
it's also decided that the abbreviation 'GMT' would be deprecated
and 'UTC' should be used in its place. ...
And to add to confusion, the military also calls it Zulu time, as in
I remember getting that same bogus E-mail, ostensibly from Roozbeh.
Norton Antivirus stripped the virus from the E-mail and left me a message as
to what the virus was. I long ago deleted both, so I don't remember which
virus it was. Anybody running NAV or Norton Internet Security probably
didn't
If my memory is correct, James Thurber also wrote a short (American English)
book called The Wonderful O in which he did not use the letter e.
Clive
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From: John Cowan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 10:59 PM
To: Patrick Andries
Cc: Asmus
that somewhat old e-mail from Clive, but the web site is still there
...
Good luck
Arnold
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From: Hohberger, Clive [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:34 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Bar codes using unicode
Speaking as a member of the AIM bar code
Actually, Rick, Mr Yuk was invented by the Poison Control Center of the
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1971. It is the visual
inverse of the Smiley Face, and was intented to warn pre-reading children
that the container's contents something bad for them. See:
The allusion to Tarot isn't entirely specious! Code Planes higher than the
BMP were referred to as higher planes... or astral planes. Therefore,
these Code planes were obviously populated with astral characters.
But I never did figure out if everything above Code Plane 16 was above or
still
Stefan Persson wrote:
A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing
a virus. Has anyone else received the same virus?
Michael Everson wrote in reponse:
Nope. I use a Macintosh.
[Hohberger, Clive] writes:
And this I also why I use
Tundra Nenets, together with Forest Nenets, forms the Nenets group of
languages, which belongs to the Samoyed branch of the Finno-Ugrian (Uralic)
language family. Nenets was formerly known as Yurak or Yurak Samoyed, both
now obsolete.
Clive
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From: Valeriy E.
I just got back from the Inupiaq Artic Museum at Kotzebue, Alaska. Although
I'm no Inuktitut language expert, As far as I know, the principal dialects
East and West Greenlandic (which are quite differentiated), the Polar
dialect of Greenlandic, and the Alaskan Eskimo dialects of Inupaiq, Yupik
(UCS)"
--Ken
[Hohberger, Clive]
GB-13000 probably has a cross-reference to Unicode 1.0/2.0 or the
Unicode Consortium. I checked ISO 10646-; it has one in Annex L.
on P 751.
Clive
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Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 9:40 AM
For a device that will print a relatively basic label (such
as sequence
number, date, time, name, department, etc) onto a document in
Japanese --
what is your consensus? Basic
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