RE: Does Unicode 3.1 take care of all characters of 'Hong Kong Supplimentary Character Set - 2001' (HKSCS-2001) ?

2003-08-06 Thread John McConnell
Sourav, However, I could not map the block you mentioned to the block names provided in Unicode site (http://www.unicode.org/charts/). I tried to map them based on the similarity of names and specified the actual block down below. Could you please once verify it? The block names are the ones

RE: Does Unicode 3.1 take care of all characters of 'Hong Kong Supplimentary Character Set - 2001' (HKSCS-2001) ?

2003-08-04 Thread John McConnell
The mapping of the HKSCS 2001 repertoire to ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001 has 35 mapped to the private use area 1651 mapped to supplementary plane 2 511 mapped to the Extension A block (on the BMP) 2212 mapped to the CJK Ideographic block (also on the BMP) plus another 278 mapped elsewhere on the BMP

RE: Does Unicode 3.1 take care of all characters of 'Hong Kong Supplimentary Character Set - 2001' (HKSCS-2001) ?

2003-08-04 Thread John McConnell
Muller Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Does Unicode 3.1 take care of all characters of 'Hong Kong Supplimentary Character Set - 2001' (HKSCS-2001) ? John McConnell wrote: The mapping of the HKSCS 2001 repertoire to ISO/IEC 10646-2:2001 has 35 mapped

RE: PRC asking for 956 precomposed Tibetan characters

2002-12-30 Thread John McConnell
A minor correction--EUDCEDIT does convert the bitmap to outline and save them as a TrueType file. John Global Infrastructure -Original Message- From: Doug Ewell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 7:19 PM To: Unicode Mailing List Cc: Chris Fynn; [EMAIL

RE: EUDCEDIT (was: Re: PRC asking for 956 precomposed Tibetan characters)

2002-12-30 Thread John McConnell
. John Global Infrastructure -Original Message- From: Doug Ewell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 11:43 AM To: Unicode Mailing List Cc: John McConnell John McConnell johnmcco at windows dot microsoft dot com wrote: A minor correction--EUDCEDIT does convert

RE: UTF-16 vs UTF-32 (was IBM AIX 5 and GB18030

2002-11-15 Thread John McConnell
My experience is that the UCS-2 to UTF-16 conversion can be much easier than the SBCS to DBCS conversion, depending on how your original code is organized. In the case of Windows, much of the text processing was already done by modules (e.g. Uniscribe, NLS) that processed text elements rather

RE: Entering Plane 1 characters in XP

2002-11-11 Thread John McConnell
Concerning display, there are two separate registry settings: - in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, you can set a registry value to cause Uniscribe to load (Uniscribe is required to display supplementary characters). Alternatively, you could install any of the language packs that require

RE: Entering Plane 1 characters in XP

2002-11-11 Thread John McConnell
I'll have somebody a bit more familiar with IE registry usage review that part, but the rest looks good. Thanks. John Global Infrastructure -Original Message- From: Tex Texin [mailto:tex;i18nguy.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:41 AM To: John McConnell Cc: Andrew C. West

RE: Hindi keyboard with the Microsoft Hindi font Mangal

2002-10-15 Thread John McConnell
Both the Persian (Farsi) keyboard and the Devanagari keyboard include both ZWJ and ZWNJ. ZWJ is 1+Shift+Ctrl, while ZWNJ is 2+Shift+Ctrl. The problem appears with the reference tool. I've notified the folks who maintain that site. Thanks for pointing out the problem. FWIW, the same keys are

RE: Historians- what is origin of i18n, l10n, etc.?

2002-10-10 Thread John McConnell
I can confirm Hiura-san's version. I heard it from Jurgen Bettels, who've I've known since '84 and worked with Scherpenhuizen in the Geneva office at the time. Scherpenhuizen managed the ISO work. In the days when bytes were precious, VMS had a character username limit. Some anonymous system

RE: [OT] Broken monetary settings (was RE: [OT] Broken monetary settings in MS Works)

2002-03-04 Thread John McConnell
rather than the user However we found it caused too many problems for existing applications, which assumed that there was only one setting in effect at a time In NET, the two values are grouped together in the RegionInfo class John McConnell Windows Globalization Infrastructure Design Development

RE: ISCII-Unicode Conversion

2001-11-12 Thread John McConnell
Title: Message The ISCII code pages is DLL-based, not table based. So if you have the file c_iscii.dll in your system32 folder, you have the support. The DLL ships with allconfigurations (I just confirmed that it was on the Windows 2000 CD) and will be installed if you install the Indic

RE: ISCII-Unicode Conversion

2001-11-12 Thread John McConnell
Title: Message Right, there is a section of intl.inf allows you to install optional code pages and that populates the list you see under Advanced Regional Options. Through an oversight, c_iscii.dll isn't in that section in Windows 2000--it's installed if and only if you install the

RE: Enabling and testing surrogates

2001-10-30 Thread John McConnell
Windows XP has some modest improvements for surrogate support. The info may not be on MSDN yet, so here's a summary: - there are just two optional language packs (one for East Asian and one for the rest). If either is installed, usp10.dll (Uniscribe) is installed and you'll get surrogate

RE: lag time in Unicode implementations in OS, etc?

2000-10-12 Thread John McConnell
Title: RE: lag time in Unicode implementations in OS, etc? Windows 2000 does support surrogates as defined in Unicode 2.0 e.g. it recognizes them when converting to/from UTF-8 OpenType recognizes new cmap types for surrogates. The remaining steps e.g. fonts that display Ext B and sorting

RE: lag time in Unicode implementations in OS, etc?

2000-10-12 Thread John McConnell
, then the layout engine will ignore them anyway until fonts provide that data. markus John McConnell wrote: Windows 2000 does support surrogates as defined in Unicode 2.0 e.g. it recognizes them when converting to/from UTF-8 OpenType recognizes new cmap types for surrogates. that's great