Re: Egyptian Hieroglyph Man with a Laptop

2020-02-12 Thread Joe Becker via Unicode
I assume this glyph was created to honor Cleo Huggins, the designer of Sonata at Adobe, who decades ago created a similar hieroglyph of a *woman* in front of her computer. Joe

50th Anniversary of the "Mother of all Demos"

2018-12-09 Thread Joe Becker via Unicode
d in Menlo Park] on December 9, 1968." See e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mousesite/dce1968conferenceannouncement.jpg This event presented the framework for modern computing, including Unicode and much else. Joe

Re: Emoji as Art - Emoji as Marginalia

2016-12-14 Thread Joe Becker
e the immediate antecedent of emoji in the Japanese computer context. Joe

Re: The Chinese Typewriter: The Design and Science of East Asian Information Technology

2016-01-16 Thread Joe Becker
See, for starters ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdT-oFxc-C0 -- A Chinese Typewriter in Silicon Valley, Thomas S. Mullaney, Google Tech Talk, December 5, 2011 http://thechinesetypewriter.wordpress.com/ http://tsmullaney.com/ Zhou

Re: Swift

2014-06-04 Thread Joe Becker
to accept XCCS sourcecode, including fully multilingual identifiers, strings, and comments ... of course the Development Environment group showed no interest. Maybe now the world is ready for "你好世界" ... I don't think I am ... Joe __

RE: UCA and Russian letter Ё

2012-12-21 Thread Joe
> Fact is, again, that ёлка - "in the wild" - can be written ёлка and елка Though you need a better dictionary: it's the diminutive of ель (as in Yel'tsin) meaning "fir tree", and is the 4-letter word for "Christmas tree". С Рождеством, Joe

RE: First known use of the word, "email" (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread Joe
German scholars have traced it back at least to the early Middle Ages: Email im frühen Mittelalter von Günther Haseloff http://books.google.com/books/about/Email_im_frühen_Mittelalter.html?id=H7RJAQAAIAAJ Jo(k)e

RE: Fake Unicode

2012-03-23 Thread Joe
The alias COLLARBONE AS VIEWED THROUGH TOILET PAPER TUBE opens the field of "Droodles", such as: SHIP ARRIVING TOO LATE TO SAVE DROWNING WITCH Joe <>

RE: Upside Down Fu character

2012-01-03 Thread Joe
I would say that semantically upside-down-fu would be as distinct and useful - even in plain text - as the average Enclosed Ideograph, and more so than all the z-variants of rightside-up-fu ... and probably more useful than the last many thousand encoded characters. The problem is not the upsi

RE: About Encoding Theory (was: Re: Again not about Phoenician)

2004-11-08 Thread Joe
disation is surely to define a single and >unambiguous representation of text. is well and truly false. Thus, we can all agree on the letters of the Latin alphabet for English, abc...xyz -- but we cannot all agree on a single and unambiguous representation of the word "standardization".

RE: CYRILIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER

2004-09-28 Thread Joe Becker \(Unicode\)
istinct Iff you have examples of two distinguished pe variants occurring within the same Abkhazian text, then there is a problem. Joe

RE: CYRILIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER

2004-09-28 Thread Joe Becker \(Unicode\)
handwritten forms do not necessarily reflect typography. And the typographical preference may have changed since then, it will be interesting to see what recent samples folks can come up with. Joe

Latin Characters

2004-06-22 Thread Joe Speroni
!   Joe Speroni Honolulu  

Latin long vowels

2004-06-22 Thread Joe Speroni
?         If so, would anyone know from where a Windows XP font containing these five characters could be download?   Again sorry for such a simple question when I know more weighty questions are addressed in this forum.   Aloha,   Joe Speroni Honolulu   <>

FYI FWIW: Microsoft Aims to Double Windows Language Versions

2004-03-17 Thread Joe Becker \(Unicode\)
Microsoft Aims to Double Windows Language Versions Tue Mar 16, 4:39 PM ET Reuters to My Yahoo! By Reed Stevenson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. launched on Tuesday a program to create versions of Windows and its other programs in little spoken languages such as Amharic, Catalan, Gujarati

RE: Mother Language Day

2004-02-20 Thread joe
(Hmm, in Russian "mother language" (maternij jazik) means something *verry* different. Watch your language! ;-) Joe

Name Mixup Behind Air France Groundings

2004-01-02 Thread Joe Becker \(Unicode\)
Name Mixup Behind Air France Groundings By ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press Writer PARIS - Six cases of mistaken identity were behind the pre-Christmas grounding of six Air France flights between Paris and Los Angeles over terrorism fears, a police o

RE: ogonek vs. retroflex hook

2003-04-02 Thread Joe
> U+0322 RETROFLEX HOOK is an artifact of Unicode. All characters are artifacts, this one came to Unicode from bibliographic standards, so that would be where to seek its usage if any. Joe RLG COMMENTS ON UNICODE (VERSION DATE: SEPT 11, 1989) ... c. CEDILLAS AND HOOKS: Two cedillas

Re: [OT] HAIKU computer talk

2002-12-05 Thread Joe Becker
Poetry in motion: text elements rendered on sheep http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_719935.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/800101/posts/ Joe

Re: IBM AIX 5 and GB18030

2002-11-14 Thread Joe Ross
APAR IY26937 does include a Zh_CN.GB18030 locale. Here is a link to the web site where it can be obtained.  http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/aix.fdc51 (search for fix for APAR IY26937) Joe Jane Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/14/2002 08

chcp 65001 on windows 2000

2002-02-27 Thread Joe Ross
wonder why that's not the default...). However, I ran into problems running .cmd or .bat files from that DOS window. I couldn't find anything about this on the MS web site. Does anyone know anything about this? Is there anyone out there using this feature? Thanks, Joe

Problems using UTF-8 on WebSphere 4

2001-08-29 Thread Joe Ross
approach. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Joe Ross

utf-8 and fly over (alt attribute in tag ) )in netscape

2001-07-25 Thread Joe Ross
Any suggestions for Maria? UTF-8 strings in fly over text work in IE, but we can't get them to work in Netscape. Thanks, Joe -- Forwarded by Joe Ross/Austin/IBM on 07/25/2001 04:25 PM --- To: cc: From: Maria Baldassarri/Tivoli Systems@T