Re: please unsubsribe me

2002-10-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Allow us to help you once more:   http://unicode.org/unicode/consortium/distlist.html#3   (contains the info on how to unsubscribe)   MichKa - Original Message - From: Jason To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 8:55 PM Subject: please unsubsribe m

Re: unallocated Unicode character and VB

2002-10-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
The AscW() function in VB gives the code point of the first character in the string it is passed (it is basically the inverse of ChrW). MichKa - Original Message - From: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:06 AM Subject

Re: Revised proposal for "Missing character" glyph

2002-08-31 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Not sure how this could be generally possible to restrict, since WinNT/2K/XP/.Net all will transparently map CF_TEXT an CF_UNICODETEXT so that if one if put on the clipboard and the other is asked for, you will get it. "Synthetic clipboard formats", etc... MichKa - Original Message - Fro

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Only because so few people think that fonts are worth paying for that > people who really OUGHT to be earning their living by making fonts > have to do other things. There's something really wrong with that > model. Isn't there? Of course, one could

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
What scares me was that I puzzled that out almost instantly -- I felt like I was watching Wheel of Fortune or something. ;-) MichKa - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:03 AM Subject: RE: Romanized Cyr

Re: [OT] cover sheet standards - summary

2002-08-20 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Janusz S. Bień" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The summary is very short: I got *no* answer to my query. Well, it *is* a question that really has nothing to do with Unicode, a character encoding standard. > Perhaps some of you may suggest a more responsive forum? Well, something on topic would l

Any day can be April 1st? (was: An idea for keeping U+FFFC usable)

2002-08-15 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "William Overington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Could this be discussed at the Unicode Technical Committee > meeting next week please? William, Please read Ken's message again. He was *talking* about HTML, and pointing out how all of these things are supported in browsers already. You will

Re: Tildes on vowels

2002-08-11 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Threads like this make me wish that the Unicode list had a "daily digest" option. :-) From: "Frank da Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maybe I'm naive but after all the talk about how bad precomposed > characters are and how much more proper it is to use combining > characters to get accents (and pre

Re: Backward accent order

2002-08-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
AFAIK reverse diacritic are unique to French -- of course French is spoken in a lot of different locales. ;-) MichKa - Original Message - From: "Ake Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 3:58 AM Subject: Backward accent order

Re: ISIRI 2901 to Unicode map

2002-08-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm only talking about the row-column nomenclature. AFAIK, there isn't > even a requirement that the keys be expressed in Unicode code points. I > would imagine you could say "U+094D + U+0930" for a digraph, for > instance. As for SGCAPS, ISO 9995 does

Re: ISIRI 2901 to Unicode map

2002-08-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Even a very non-trivial reference to somewhere in MSDN I can > give to a programmer as a start point? Tell them to look at kbd.h in the Windows DDK I believe there are also some samples in there. I do not know of anything in MSDN. MichKa Mic

Re: ISIRI 2901 to Unicode map

2002-08-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > > > [...] using the DDK to develop a keyboard layout. > > Any URLs to how this can be done? Unfortunately, no. Its definitely a non-trivial process, I do n

Re: ISIRI 2901 to Unicode map

2002-08-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The shift states ("levels") are also identified: Level > 1 is the normal state, Level 2 is the Shift state, and Level 3 is the > AltGr or Ctrl+Alt state. (There isn't supposed to be a "Level 4," > corresponding to Shift+AltGr, but many systems provide one

Re: A new word for the English language

2002-08-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Simply throwing out terms and definitions, without > establishing a need and ignoring existing industry terms, > seems to be a self-inflating and glory-seeking action, > rather than a desire to make a helpful contribution. Just so. > I mention this n

Re: Microsoft no longer offering MS Arial Unicode downloads?

2002-07-30 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Well, thats not the link, thats the "broken link" message. The actual link is: http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/aruniupd.aspx but it looks like the link needs to be fixed? MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - F

Re: logical order (and Tamil)

2002-07-27 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yes, you are correct -- I misspoke here. I meant character properties. I meant *glyph* properties. Oops! The incompatibility of Linear Tamil in its current form is not with Unicode, technically; it is with the existing me

Re: logical order (and Tamil)

2002-07-26 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Kenneth Whistler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So I would like to get a clarification of MichKa's claim that: > > > Sinnathurai Srivas is a member of INFITT's WG02 (Working Group 02, Unicode > > Tamil) who has been long advocating changes to Unicode Tamil that would be > > done in a "linear" mann

Re: Tamil Text Messaging in Mobile Phones

2002-07-26 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The changes advocated seem to be more related to the Tamil script > itself rather than the way that it is encoded. The changes for "Linear Tamil" are to leave the encoding exactly the way they have but to change all of the rules for re-ordering such that

Re: Tamil Text Messaging in Mobile Phones

2002-07-26 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The changes to the script are relevant to the linear Tamil issue > because the changes to the script include the notion that Tamil > is to be written linearly. The changes (modernizations) to some > of the glyphs are not relevant to the linear Tamil issue

Re: Tamil Text Messaging in Mobile Phones

2002-07-26 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I agree. Instead of talking of visual order, we should instead talk of > Western-Imperialist order. We do not need to redefine terms here. The term "logical order" is refering to a backend store that matches the way a user of the script might read it/wri

Re: Tamil Text Messaging in Mobile Phones

2002-07-26 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >2) script reform is beyond the scope of both Unicode and INFITT's WG02. > > I agree (at least wrt Unicode -- I don't know enough about what > WG02's mandate is). To support the use of Unicode for Tamil, suggesting both changes/additions to Unicode (when required) and

Re: Tamil Text Messaging in Mobile Phones

2002-07-22 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
For those who are interested in what is behind this message, a little background... Sinnathurai Srivas is a member of INFITT's WG02 (Working Group 02, Unicode Tamil) who has been long advocating changes to Unicode Tamil that would be done in a "linear" manner that would remove the requirement of

Re: Unicode Devanagari Font in Mozilla

2002-07-16 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Michael Jansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm not arguing that you can not update one Win9x machine to > show Tamil correctly. I'm arguing that you should not advice > companies to tell a million web users to do that on a broad basis. > You need test coverage, support, etc before doing that.

Re: Unicode Devanagari Font in Mozilla

2002-07-16 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Michael Jansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OK, I managed to ensure that with my own Win9x machine. > How do I ensure that Amzing how I give two fonts that each support a large subrange of Unicode, and then for the sake of disproving my point, you choose to (a) ignore the smallest of the tw

Re: Unicode Devanagari Font in Mozilla

2002-07-16 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
r hari kari or anything. :-) > Then again, even that may not work... ;-) Well, I suppose they can always turn to Fairy, right? MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ > > > > Regards, > - Michael > > > -Original Message--

Re: Unicode Devanagari Font in Mozilla

2002-07-16 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Since you are not allowed to redistribute Latha, Mangal, et. al., this is really not going to be too much of a hardship for anyone playing by the rules, is it? :-) They can always legally obtain Arial Unicode MS or Code 2000 and then have support via fonts that definitely have such ranges represe

Re: There was this thing called Unicode...

2002-07-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
bite". No one seems to want a different list, they just want a "bite" of this one, :-) MichKa - Original Message - From: "Stefan Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EM

There was this thing called Unicode...

2002-07-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
...not so you'd really notice it around *these* parts, though -- everyone is much too busy discussing implementation of scripts in the ConScript registry which they admit will probably never be encoded, getting remedial CSS lessons, or trying to change the face of Unicode with new PUA extensions t

Re: The pointless thread continues

2002-07-05 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Michael Jansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (Argh this is just too frustrating. I'll jump infront of a car if > someone else suggest that I should just install a god damn font. ;-) Install a god damn font. Oh, and look out for that car! :-) MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, In

Re: ALT Codes for Accession Countries

2002-06-25 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Toor, Indie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Asmus Freytag'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "unicode List" <[EMAIL

Re: ALT Codes for Accession Countries

2002-06-24 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Actually, its mainly just a matter of writing a Unicode application. The rest will take care of itself (they can install keyboards and such to input characters as needed -- no ALT codes required but they will work just fine if you use them). MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- h

Re: Chinese Windows

2002-06-23 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
e - From: "Frank Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:00 AM Subject: Re: Chinese Windows > a related question: is there a way to determ

Re: Chinese Windows

2002-06-23 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Frank Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:09 AM Subject: Re: Chi

Re: Chinese Windows

2002-06-23 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
/ - Original Message - From: "Frank Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 11:58 PM Subject: Re: Chinese Windows > Hi Michael, >

Re: Chinese Windows

2002-06-22 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Well, GetACP() will return the default system code page -- 936, 950, or 932, respectively. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Frank Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 11

Ah, the irony! (was Re: Chess symbols, etc.)

2002-06-21 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "William Overington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, what I say can be done can indeed be done, yet not quite in the manner > suggested in your question. I guess I am the only person who noted the irony in your insistence that a plain text mechanism is required for Word? :-) Now I like Word,

Re: Hexadecimal characters.

2002-06-20 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Tom Finch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rick McGowan wrote: > > >What is the problem you are trying to solve by encoding 16 things in a > >row? > > To answer this, it is better to have 16 in a row as it makes computation of a > numeric value from the character value easier and more straightforwa

Re: Chess symbols, ZWJ, Opentype and holly type ornaments.

2002-06-20 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Not without separate tools to do the input. Something that the current proposal fails to mention. By the time it is possible to do, no one will be using the OSes in question any more (certainly no one who uses computers and plays chess!). MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http

Re: utf-8 to ucs-2

2002-06-19 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
On the whole, it is really a *bad* idea to store UTF-8 data in an MSSQLS nvarchar column. The only thing I would really suggest is that you get the data out via whatever means you used to get it in, then make some quick MultiByteToWideChar calls to convert the data. SQL Server itself does not pro

Re: FW:Unicode in MS Excel

2002-06-18 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
There are no Excel workbook functions, but the VBA functions AscW and ChrW$ both exist for this purpose. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "unicode" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How the regional Online- News papers are able to display all the characters

2002-06-18 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Not sure how this site is doing things, but products like FAIRY (http://www.em2-solutions.com/apps/fairy/fairy.htm from the company formerly known as Borware) have been around for quite some time. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Mes

Re: Chinese Windows and unicode

2002-06-12 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Its cp936. :-) MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 7:13 AM Subject: Re: Chinese Windows and unicode > > On 06/12/2002 12:24:22 AM "Frank Wan

Re: Chinese Windows and unicode

2002-06-11 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Lars Marius Garshol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * Peter Constable > | BTW, it's my understanding that, by using MSLU (which Michael helped > | develop!), a develop can avoid much of the hard work you refer to. > > Yes, I think it can. I don't think it covers everything, and I'm not > sure how e

Re: Chinese Windows and unicode

2002-06-11 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > But if all you want to do is something like Chinese but encoded in Unicode > rather than a legacy encoding, Win9x/Me can support that. Well, not to be grim () but when doing this one hopefully knows how much everything that goes through the operating system will usual

Re: Chinese Windows and unicode

2002-06-11 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Sorry, but no version of Windows 95, 98, or Me really supports Unicode in any real sense -- the APIs that support it are minimal. Conversion is usually possible (via the WideCharToMultiByte and MultiByteToWideChar APIs) but the number of code pages on the machine are usually more limited than the

Re: Running Japanese programs under Win2K

2002-06-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Stefan Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is there any way to solve the problems with non-Unicode programs without > having to change the default encoding for the entire OS? I.e. is there any > way to tell the OS to use Latin-1 in program X and JIS in program Y? No, there is not. Well, you c

Re: Running Japanese programs under Win2K

2002-06-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Addison Phillips [wM]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stefan Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 8:43 AM Subject: RE:

Re: Running Japanese programs under Win2K

2002-06-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Addison Phillips [wM]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To solve some of your square box problems I would suggest that you get ahold of Microsoft's "Multilingual User Interface" package (MUI). I'm not sure of the licensing details of MUI--> I get mine in my copy of MSDN. This will allow you to set th

Re: Running Japanese programs under Win2K

2002-06-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Stefan Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have the English edition of Windows 2000 Professional, and I'd like to run > some Japanese programs. Some programs, e.g. Internet Explorer and MS Word, > work properly, while other display square boxes, question marks and/or text > misinterpreted as

Re: The golden ligatures collection ct ligature code in use.

2002-06-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
A bunch of side notes for William. From: "William Overington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > William published a list of code points for ligatures. In academia, speaking of oneself in third person may be expected at times. Here on the Unicode List, its basically pretentious. > This is, I feel, an exp

Re: (informative) Explanation of Microsoft Windows Text-File Modes

2002-05-31 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Shlomi Tal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Another FAQ-like essay of mine. Very interesting > Request for corrections. Ok, if you insist. :-) > Microsoft Windows can handle text in at least one of three modes: > > 1. 8-bit stream with 256-character repertoire > 2. 16-bit stream with 65536-c

Re: Towards some more Private Use Area code points for ligatures.

2002-05-30 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
John, > You are trying to find a solution to a problem that has already > been solved in a better way, and in the process you will create > more problems for anyone who uses your solution. So give it > up already. I will buy a drink for whoever can truly make William understand this point so tha

Re: Unicode vs Code pages

2002-05-29 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
/ - Original Message - From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ""Michael (michka) Kaplan"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Chris Kavanagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 11:39 AM Subject: Re: Unicode

Re: Unicode vs Code pages

2002-05-29 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Chris, There are two important reasons why code pages are still needed: 1) Many applications do not yet support Unicode, and those applications still need to work properly (imagine trying to sell an OS where your favorite apps would not install and run?). 2) Many people with whom you may want t

Re: Courtyard Codes and the Private Use Area (derives from Re: Encoding of symbols and a "lock"/"unlock" pre-proposal)

2002-05-24 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "John H. Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:54 PM > On Friday, May 24, 2002, at 08:06 AM, Philipp Reichmuth wrote: > > > WO> U+F3A2 PLEASE LIGATE THE NEXT TWO CHARACTERS > > WO> U+F3A3 PLEASE LIGATE THE NEXT THREE CHARACTERS > > WO> U+F3A4 PLEASE LIGATE THE NEXT FOUR

Re: How to refer

2002-05-18 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
See the FAQ: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/reports_process.html#4 which points to http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/index.html#Citations MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Roozbeh Pournader"

Re: Variant locales?

2002-04-22 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (Many would say it would be even better if the structure and > definition of notion locale itself were revisited -- a common > theme on the locales list). Although until they decide on that list just what they *do* want (and move off of the " does not apply me sinc

Re: Unicode - Bengali

2002-04-13 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
There is very little on that page that is not explained up at: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/indic.html The site you found is basically wrong. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Arijit Upadhyay" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Please help: Unicode sig in Hotmail

2002-04-12 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You completely missed the point. Your experiment didn't add any > new information about Hotmail's UTF-8 support. Well, I suppose one can just use the OE support, then? :-) > It's almost nothing to do with Hotmail. In this case, it's just OE > that does the job wel

Re: Please help: Unicode sig in Hotmail

2002-04-12 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
No idea what everyone is complaining about. I just did the following: 1) Copied the text of http://www.trigeminal.com/samples/provincial.html to the clipboard. 2) Pasted it into notepad so I could get plain text without the embedded fonts. 3) Created a hotmail message (using UTF-8 ncoding, obviou

Re: Unicode Font Pros and Cons

2002-03-30 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
It is really hard to imagine a single font that can be used effectively for Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Japanese (since there are ideograms that span two or more of these languages due to unification yet the ideal glyphs for each language may be different). I think that e

Re: Russian Text in VB6.0

2002-03-28 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The add-in assumes you will add an init call to each form's > > load event. > > But, with this approach, you cannot change the language *after* the form is > loaded. So you can't, for instance, implement a "Language" menu, or link a > language to a

Re: Russian Text in VB6.0

2002-03-28 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In case 1, you just have a font problem: the Cyrillic characters are there > but the font you use doesn't have glyphs for them. Although I don't expect > that this is the problem, you could fix it by setting each control's font > face to a proper font

Re: Browser support

2002-03-20 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Herman Ranes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My observation is that Opera6.0, MSIE6.0 and Mozilla0.9.8(Win) > interpret not only Win-1252 -tagged 8-bit HTML as Win-1252, but that > they interpret also US-ASCII and ISO-8859-1 -tagged 8-bit HTML as > Win-1252. It is highly doubtful that they are sup

Re: Collation - last character?

2002-03-15 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Since collation depends on the language and not the code point or encoding or anything else, there is no absolute last character that would be the last character in every possible collation? MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message -

Re: Regd- ISCII to Unicode Converter!

2002-03-15 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Actually, the code pages in the 5 are not simply table based, they are algorithm-based. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: &q

Re: Regd- ISCII to Unicode Converter!

2002-03-15 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Not sure which converter you are referring to? Windows 2000 and Windows XP support code pages to do the conversion via MultiByteToWideChar: ISCII Assamese 57006 ISCII Bengali 57003 ISCII Devanagari 57002 ISCII Gujarathi 57010 ISCII Kannada 57008 ISCII Malayalam 57009 ISCII Oriya 57007 ISCII Panja

Re: Encoding Elvish scripts may be the road to Mordor?

2002-03-14 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I could point out that "Swede" means not only "person from Sweden", > but also "turnip"; therefore, encoding "Swedish" would be embarrassing > and should not be done. My point was that the connotation of mystical, imaginary things, things not of the real

Encoding Elvish scripts may be the road to Mordor?

2002-03-14 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
legal advice on what that means rather than have a bunch of non-lawyers and Tolkien enthusiasts tell everyone not to worry? MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "M

Re: Private Use Agreements and Unapproved Characters

2002-03-13 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "David Starner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In my eyes, part of the success of Unicode is that it has every > character one could need, and if it doesn't, then it will next version. > If you want to make Unicode into a purely commercial standard, then you > may lose some of the major Unicode enth

Re: Private Use Agreements and Unapproved Characters

2002-03-13 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The JTC1 Member Bodies, however, do not represent an industrial > consortium. The goal of the Universal Character Set is to represent > all the world's writing systems. Yes, and perhaps the proposals can start there, then. > If accepted into the sta

Re: Private Use Agreements and Unapproved Characters

2002-03-13 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "David Starner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sure. That's been done, and now almost everything not rarely-used or > fictional has been encoded. Still stuff on the roadmap. :-) After that, perhaps Unicode can takle a step back and start working on supporting its members and helping them implement

Re: Private Use Agreements and Unapproved Characters

2002-03-13 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
This might be a little overstated (though perhaps some people do feel this way). But, devil's advocate -- since Unicode is an industrial consortium which must ultimately answer to its members (and whose representatives must ultimately answer to their superiors in terms of budgeting that $12,000!)

Re: Private Use Agreements and Unapproved Characters

2002-03-13 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "William Overington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The use of this hexadecimal point technique would allow characters from > several different character sets to be used in the same plain text file. You do enjoy making things complicated\, William. :-) This whole system is prety much not needed, s

Re: How to make "oo" with combining breve/macron over pair?

2002-03-06 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >1. Rendering applications already have to deal with combining > > enclosing marks (well, at least if they choose to support them). > > That qualifier is pretty significant here. I can't imagine too many font > developers getting terribly excited about implementing

Re: All-kana documents

2002-03-04 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
One has naught to do but look. :-) cf: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr6/ MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "$B$m!;!;!;!;(B $B$m!;!;!;(B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March

Re: [OT] Broken monetary settings in MS Works (was: Standard Conventions and euro)

2002-03-01 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
The thing MS Works did not do is something that MS Access *did* do, starting with Access 2.0. They store the information about the locale settings along with the decision to make something a currency field, so that if the locale changes the monetary value stays the same. It was more work, but it

Re: Unicode page Web ring?

2002-02-27 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
I have plenty of pages like that on my site, including one linked from the Unicode site: http://www.trigeminal.com/samples/provincial.html Some of the languages on the site proper use Unicode, others do not (mainly depends on optimizing display behavior in IE). MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal

Re: CRLF vs. LF (was Re: Unicode and end users)

2002-02-21 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Lars Kristan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A - When writing, no CR characters will be written (unless read from a > file). Many programs (like notepad) will not display such files correctly. > It is a good question whether this is my problem or notepad's. Yours -- since you are feeding it files

Re: Unicode and end users

2002-02-18 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Generally speaking, the best "reader" to do it all in is IE you can open the text file, change the encoding, and then copy/paste it out into any other file. Not that "Open as" wouldn't be cool (it would save me some steps!). MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.tr

Re: Smiles, faces, etc

2002-02-16 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Christopher J Fynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A few pedantic corrections follow. > IMO attention needs to be paid to making > sure all these characters are encoded before we start > bothering with Klingon, smileys, & etc. Klingon was rejected. A proposal for smileys would be a welcome chuckler

Re: Unicode and end users

2002-02-14 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 14:16 -0600 2002-02-14, David Starner wrote: > There is no reason to use ISO 10646, besides pedanticness. > It is ISO/IEC 10646. The defense rests. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/

Re: Database To Web Browser

2002-02-05 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
2002 4:46 AM Subject: Re: Database To Web Browser > Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > > > The @CODEPAGE directive or Session.CodePage property must be set > > > to 1251 for cyrillic text to properly be sent from ASP code to > > > the browser. > > Why only that

Re: Unicode and Security

2002-02-04 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Gaspar Sinai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If the standard wants me to confuse the user, I would > rather dump the standard than comply. Well, don't let the door hit you in the a** on the way out? Te users will be less confused than you realize -- only people who walk in with agendas see the fl

Re: Variation selectors for narrow/wide EastAsian glyphs

2002-02-04 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
I am not a member of that list, so best to answer here. Variation selectors are ONLY allowed for specific characters and therefore the proposal given here is not possible or sensible (there are not narrow and wide varities of any of the characters currently being considered for usage with variati

Re: Database To Web Browser

2002-02-04 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
The @CODEPAGE directive or Session.CodePage property must be set to 1251 for cyrillic text to properly be sent from ASP code to the browser. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: When to use markup: (Was:Introducing the idea of a "ROMAN VARIANT SELECTOR" (was: Re: Proposing Fraktur))

2002-02-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "John Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Um, for italics one has to use a different font also. Many > programs provide an italics button that activates the italic > member of a font family, but this still involves selecting a > separate font. Au contraire, sir! Many fonts *do* have a separate "

Re: Keyboard mapping on Windows XP?

2002-01-31 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Hi Rick, I cannot ever get this sort of thing to work; I usually end up creating a new keyboard layout instead MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Rick McGowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

VIRUS!!!!! (was Re: new photos from my party!)

2002-01-28 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Do not open the attachment, this is a virus! MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Polykarpos Karamaounas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:00 AM Subject: new photos from my

Re: Problems with viewing Hindi Unicode Page

2002-01-26 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Dinesh Agarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I didn't experience any problems of the kind you mention. > I haven't used the font for very long though. Are Open > Type fonts not supported by Win 9x at all? No, I am sure OpenType fonts work (if you are using products that take advantage of them l

Re: POSITIVELY MUST READ! Bytext is here!

2002-01-25 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
>From Bernard's personal site: "There are so many people smarter than me" Indeed. But few who are so presumptuous to believe that they are a serious competitor on such a basis? Though I can offer you a deal on personalized tutorials to help you with your misconceptions on Unicode, though it may

Re: Microsoft's Japanese IME has no Unicode option

2002-01-25 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "$B$m!;!;!;!;(B $B$m!;!;!;(B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Okay, here's the scoop: I have a page with some (poorly > written) Japanese in it, and it is in Unicode. I want to be > able to edit the page without having to port the whole > doggone thing into Unipad and then curse when I can't > use

Re: Microsoft's Japanese IME has no Unicode option

2002-01-25 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "$B$m!;!;!;!;(B $B$m!;!;!;(B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:00 AM Subject: Re: Microsoft's Japanese IME has no Unicode option > > > > >From: "Michael \(michka\)

Re: [OT] Rich man Bill (RE: Issues with Unicode Hindi)

2002-01-24 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Rick Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By 'we', do you mean Microsoft? No, I mean "we" as in we, the members of the human race on this spaceshhip Earth. WE behave appropriately as that as what a good person does. Is "we" act badly, then "we" should be ashamed and keep it to ourselves. > If

Re: [OT] Rich man Bill (RE: Issues with Unicode Hindi)

2002-01-24 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
We rob NO ONE. We behave with honor and we wish others to do the same with us. Its a respect thing. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Michael

Re: Unicode Tibetan

2002-01-24 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
This is because Arial Unicode MS does not have any of the OpenType information that would be necessary for the shaping in the Tibetan script. I do not know of any fonts that currently have this information, but I assume it is only a matter of time before there are some. MichKa Michael Kaplan Tr

Re: Issues with Unicode Hindi

2002-01-24 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Dinesh Agarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 5. Following suggestions from this list, a Unicode > Hindi-specific font (Mangal) was obtained (from > private sources) and installed in Control Panel -> > Fonts. Please be aware of the fact that those "private sources" have perhaps engaged in piracy

Re: GBK Traditional to Simplified mapping table

2002-01-10 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Not all Traditional forms *have* a Simplified form (thats why they called it Simplified, since there were fewer ideographs!). There are conversion tools in Word and in Windows (The LCMapString function will do this). MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/

Re: New plane 1 page for testing your browsers

2002-01-06 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > But it doesn't. Just tried changing the charset on an NCR Deseret test > page from UTF-8 to US-ASCII. Both charsets fail on the W3 validator > because the NCRs are out of any recognized range. > > I'd thought that it should pass validation earlier as UT

Re: Problems with Japanese

2002-01-05 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Sorry, there is not. You will never see Japanese in notepad or in any program that requires a default system locale of Japanese -- UNLESSA you have Japanese Windows 98. The IE language support is there so that IE can support Japanese, and other Unicode programs like Word will show some support as

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