Unicode support

2004-05-05 Thread R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein]
thanks Tom, the issue is that there is no issue - it's a 'fait accompli' - at least within this group. As you said, ISO-8859-2 would be fine for Polish [Mac CE and Windows CE are not the same, all aogonek display as sacute to name a few problems]. But that is still a 8-bits encoding. And that'

Re: Just if and where is the sense then?

2004-05-05 Thread R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein]
OK, John how well Unicode compatible are these operating systems? Eudora may be obsolete, but have you got any idea how big the installed base of Eudora is? groetjes, Rein On Wed, 5 May 2004, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein] scripsit: > >> D

Re: Just if and where is the sense then?

2004-05-05 Thread R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein]
Do low-end hardware and systems exist outside the M$ Windows community? How well does Mac/Apple software [I'm not talking about the 'X' op.sys] support Unicode? How well does low-budget Eudora support Unicode? I'm just one of these medieval people who cannot enjoy the blessings of Unicode simpl

Re: Just if and where is the sense then?

2004-05-04 Thread R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein]
P.S. I forgot mr. M.E. who is aiming at the top right now just before mr. P.K. -- So why can we have zillions of CJK code points and make a fuss about a few single code points that must be composed by an ever growing intelligent display software that is also supposed to run on all pla

Re: Just if and where is the sense then?

2004-05-04 Thread R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein]
So why can we have zillions of CJK code points and make a fuss about a few single code points that must be composed by an ever growing intelligent display software that is also supposed to run on all platforms? So why are we unifying all middle east past and present scripts? Why are the few a

Re: good morning

2004-04-12 Thread R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein]
dear Stefan, Is this a 'bom-melding' or a 'bommel-ding'?? groetjes, Rein On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Stefan Persson wrote: >c >Is there no kind of filter that sorts out viruses from the list? > >Stefan > > >

Re: Polish ASCII

2002-03-03 Thread R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein]
all my private game, since nobody in the Netherlands was then ever trying to bother to get 'proper' Polish in print. And in some respect hardly anybody is doing that now Nothing changed much... Despite of the great efforts the ISO/Unicode community has been making in the past 20 yea

Re: Polish ASCII

2002-03-03 Thread R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein]
I'm not so sure whether I know what you mean... I do remember that in order to have both the zacute and zdot using the Alt+a =ą, Alt+c= ć etc. Alt+z = zdot and Alt+x = zacute, since the zdot is most often used and the zacute rather scarcely... gtx, Rein On Fri, 01 Mar 2002, Martin Kochanski wro

Re: FW: Using Unicode with e-mail

2000-11-20 Thread R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein]
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote: >For example, here are some Croatian letters that look correct as I compose >this e-mail (using Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Arial CE font): >Cc (upper and lower case C with / accent above) >Cc (upper and lower case C with v accent above) >Dd (uppe

Re: [very OT] Welsch

2000-09-22 Thread R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink [Rein]
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It was in a book about Indo-European (I don't venture to mention the author, >as I have at least two candidates on top of my mind). The discussion was >about an alledged common PIE root (*wel-, *wol-, something like that) >apparently used to name