Re: unicode Digest V2 #52

2002-02-27 Thread Stefan Probst
Hello again, my apologies if me language challenged caused some of you to regard my post about threads as a threat ;) Stefan At 23:54 26.02.2002 -0500, I wrote: - >Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:49:52 +0700 >From: Stefan Probst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject:

Recent Threats

2002-02-26 Thread Stefan Probst
Good Evening, can somebody pls. explain to me dummy, what the long threats about R(o|u)mania, Canada, California, Yankees, and Initials in various countries.. have to do with Unicode? Maybe I don't understand the deeper implications not yet? ;) Cheers, Stefan

RE: Unicode Search Engines

2002-02-20 Thread Stefan Probst
Good Morning, There is a new version of the relevant document (still in draft) out since yesterday. You may want to check it: http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/ It is stated there under 4.3: >[S] [I] A text-processing component that receives suspect text MUST NOT >perform any normalization-sensitiv

Re: Unicode Search Engines

2002-02-20 Thread Stefan Probst
Hello Doug, Actually, it seems like IE would do it like you describe: try to normalize to NFC/NFKC and display that. MS Word does not. When looking in different sizes, the glyphs look quite ugly, since they are really combined: The dot below for example is only sometimes exactly below the vowe

Re: Unicode Search Engines

2002-02-18 Thread Stefan Probst
At 30 Jan 2002 11:38:37 -0500, John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - >Stefan Probst wrote: > > And since we are already in Vietnamese (to round the things up): > > I am not sure, how e.g. in the introduction to dictionaries or > > Vietnames

Re: Unicode Search Engines

2002-01-30 Thread Stefan Probst
Hello Doug, concluding from how well you understood the issue (including your case 5), one could think, you were Vietnamese ;) It is exactly the "dot below" which makes the most problems, since its combining class (220) is lower than some of the modifiers (230). And unfortunately other tonal m

Re: Unicode Search Engines

2002-01-28 Thread Stefan Probst
On Wed Jan 16 23:49:29 2002 +0400 Aman Chawla wrote: >Are there any search engines at all at present which allow one to search >sites encoded in UTF-8? If not, are there plans to build such search >engines? For example, is Google going to implement such an engine? I would like to add: How do th