Re: fictional scripts revisited

2001-02-25 Thread Joel Rees
ical issues -- compositing on the fly still will not produce very pleasing results. (But it could produce legible results.) I'm sure a lot of the participants on this list are familiar with these issues. But I think it is worth looking at them again. That's why I brought them up. Joel Rees

Re: fictional scripts revisited

2001-02-25 Thread Joel Rees
On 2001.02.25, Christopher John Fynn responded > Joel Rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > ... > > > Maybe I'm a crackpot, but the need is there and people will use and abuse > > UNICODE in ways that you probably don't want to imagine. What I'm tryin

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space i

2001-02-25 Thread Joel Rees
er attached to the Internet for every two people alive?) The non-dense packing is the reason we are running out. Joel Rees

Re: Possibilities of future expansion (from Perception etc thread

2001-02-25 Thread Joel Rees
each language take their own good time about registering. The smaller approach will meet less resistance, be more flexible, and take less time. Joel Rees - Original Message - From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <> Sent: Monday, F

Re: fictional scripts revisited

2001-02-23 Thread Joel Rees
On 2001.02.23 19:42 Arnt Gulbrandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > Joel Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm telling you that 17 planes is not enough, and it _will_ become a painful > > constraint in your lifetime. > > How? It looks likely to me that uni

Re: fictional scripts revisited

2001-02-22 Thread Joel Rees
On 2001.02.23 15:06, Curtis Clark wrote: > At 07:04 PM 2/22/01, Joel Rees wrote: > >I'm telling you that 17 planes is not enough, and it _will_ become a painful > >constraint in your lifetime. > > So Plane 9, say, can be nothing but surrogates-of-surrogates, to some 6

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space i

2001-02-22 Thread Joel Rees
Ken, Thanks for the consideration. I threw my ego away years ago. > Joel, > > > > Note that I am just sending a response to you, not to the list. > > > > I wouldn't mind this being on the list. I was making bad assumptions about > > Sun's and others's reasons for wanting to do perverse things wi

Re: fictional scripts revisited

2001-02-22 Thread Joel Rees
Kenneth Whistler explained: > Joel Rees responded: > > > > > > > Idiosyncratic and personal characters are not encoded in Unicode. > > > > I find this a fault in UNICODE. When we go through the set algebrae in the > > introductory algebra courses for c

Re: fictional scripts revisited

2001-02-22 Thread Joel Rees
s, the jump to the next standard will be a lot easier, and can be postponed a lot longer. Joel Rees, Media Fusion Amagasaki, Japan

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space i

2001-02-22 Thread Joel Rees
rly in the transform parse. You wouldn't want to show them C source, especially if you use a macro to optimize direct conversion. I'm sure that wouldn't go down well at all. Joel Rees, Media Fusion Amagasaki, Japan

Re: More rambling about Han

2001-02-22 Thread Joel Rees
On 2001.02.23 08:37, Christopher wrote > > On Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:50 PM > Joel Rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > ... > > > Everyone could do what they want out there, but they would be responsible > > for publishing whatever needed to b

Re: fictional scripts revisited

2001-02-22 Thread Joel Rees
, and thanks for the references, Thomas. That's beautiful stuff. Joel Rees, Media Fusion Amagasaki, Japan

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-22 Thread Joel Rees
mple Java (I think) source for handling surrogate pairs available either on the UNICODE site or the ISO site for ISO/IEC 10646. I should have mentioned that in the earlier post, and I apologize. Joel Rees, Media Fusion KK Amagasaki, Japan

Re: More rambling about Han

2001-02-21 Thread Joel Rees
ard language for communicating about the local standards as a vehicle for transmitting default character shapes for exceptional characters that are not found in the UNICODE proper. Joel Rees, Media Fusion, KK Amagasaki, Japan - Original Message - From: "Thomas Chan" <[EMAIL PR

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space i

2001-02-21 Thread Joel Rees
a program that would fill more than 64K of memory. :) Joel Rees, Media Fusion KK Amagasaki, Japan - Original Message - From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 5:53 PM Subject:

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-21 Thread Joel Rees
I would still suggest you check out UTF-8 and see if that standard transformation might make sense for your application. Joel Rees, Media Fusion KK Amagasaki, Japan - Original Message - From: "William Overington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL P

More rambling about Han

2001-02-20 Thread Joel Rees
arch purposes and for doing _something_ with those characters that get invented for various technical purposes each year. > . . . I'd better quit fantasizing in public and get back to work. Thanks again. Joel Rees, Media Fusion KK Amagasaki, Japan

Re: New BMP characters (was Re: [very OT] Documentation: beyond 65

2001-02-19 Thread Joel Rees
Hi! I just signed up today after receiving a note from a fellow macperler that 3.1 (extension B) included 40,000+ new Kanji. I checked unicode.org and noted that 3.1 was in beta at last update, but that the conference period for errata had ended. (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/ver