RE: Best practices for replacing UTF-8 overlongs

2016-12-19 Thread Tex Texin
- From: Shawn Steele [mailto:shawn.ste...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 5:41 PM To: Tex Texin; 'Doug Ewell'; 'Unicode Mailing List' Cc: 'Karl Williamson' Subject: RE: Best practices for replacing UTF-8 overlongs IMO, bad bytes == corruption. At

RE: Best practices for replacing UTF-8 overlongs

2016-12-19 Thread Tex Texin
If there is a short sequence of invalid bytes presumed to be one character, then one vs several replacement characters may not matter. But if it were a longer sequence that might have been several invalidly coded characters, then multiple replacement characters would give a more correct represen

RE: Adding half-star to Unicode?

2016-06-23 Thread Tex Texin
I would have to check to see whether they are actually used, but I suspect using stars in RTL markets is not the best choice of symbols... When you look at the number of symbols used for ratings or more general valuations, rather than adding horizontal and vertical shading for each of them, it

RE: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Tex Texin
Non-breaking snake is English for Kashida right? -Original Message- From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Julian Bradfield Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 11:55 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: non-breaking snakes See http://xkcd.com/1676/ (making sure to look at

RE: Girl, 12, charged for threatening her school with emojis

2016-02-28 Thread Tex Texin
Apparently, “killing” isn’t threatening but the emojis are. I think this is because the schools and police believe the emojis are functions on their cell phones which might actually detonate, shoot or stab. The problem is with the reporter who headlined with the use of emojis as if that wer

the wheels on the bus

2015-09-11 Thread Tex Texin
Why do so many of the threads on this list seem best described as wheels coming off the bus? (Where is the emoji for that?) It is all too common for a thread to start, its appropriateness questioned, and then meta, policy and legalistic analysis ensue to no real end. I understand we often enter

RE: Plain text (from Re: Avoidance variants)

2015-03-26 Thread Tex Texin
Or to put it another way, you are inventing what is essentially another markup language. If you are going to tag text with styling, why not just use one of the many existing markup schemes used in html, bulletin boards, wiki, etc.? tex From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org

RE: Unicode encoding policy

2014-12-23 Thread Tex Texin
True, however as William points out, apparently the rules have changed, so it isn’t unreasonable to ask again whether the rules now allow it, or if people that dismissed the idea in the past would now consider it. Personally, I think this is the wrong place for it, and as has been suggested

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Do you know a tool to decode "UTF-8 twice"

2014-01-29 Thread Tex Texin
Since it isn’t cp1252 nor iso8859, perhaps call it whatwg-latin or whatwg-1. If, or when, 1252 is updated to assign a character to an undefined codepoint, it will be problematic to have them both refer to 1252. For example, if a new currency symbol is added in Latin America, as has been discussed

RE: Mark Crispin (1956-2012)

2013-01-09 Thread Tex Texin
Very sad to read this. -Original Message- From: unicore-boun...@unicode.org [mailto:unicore-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Michael Everson Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:58 PM To: unicode Unicode Discussion; unicore UnicoRe Discussion Subject: Mark Crispin (1956-2012) Farewell to Ma

27th Unicode Conference - Call for Papers - Friday is final due date!

2004-11-16 Thread Tex Texin
Send in your paper proposals before Nov. 19! >> Call for Papers! < Twenty-seventh Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC27) Theme: Unicode, Cultural Diversity and Multilingual Computing See Call f

27th Unicode Conference - Call for Papers - Berlin, Germany -April 6-8, 2005

2004-10-31 Thread Tex Texin
Send in your paper proposals before Nov. 19! >> Call for Papers! < Twenty-seventh Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC27) Theme: Unicode, Cultural Diversity and Multilingual Computing See Call f

27th Unicode Conference - Call for Papers - Berlin, Germany -April 6-8, 2005

2004-10-14 Thread Tex Texin
Send in your submissions now! >> Call for Papers! < Twenty-seventh Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC27) Theme: Unicode, Cultural Diversity and Multilingual Computing See Call for Papers at:

Save with early registration-26th Unicode Conference - Sept 7-10, 2004 - San Jose, CA

2004-08-20 Thread Tex Texin
Early-bird registration ends Aug. 18! Register now and save with Conference + Hotel Early-bird Discounted Rates! Registration includes free admission to Transdex! ** Unicode and Internationalization:

Re: valid characters in user names- esp. compatibility characters

2004-08-19 Thread Tex Texin
sufficient. I know a bit about the IVS, I just want to be clear on how you see it bearing on this. thanks. (I am traveling so my ability to respond is limited.) tex Eric Muller wrote: > > Tex Texin wrote: > > >However, I am curious as to whether some Users might read/write their

Re: valid characters in user names- esp. compatibility characters

2004-08-13 Thread Tex Texin
es with an > implementation > (ICU has one, see convrtrs.txt). > > By the way, ICU also implements IDNA and generic StringPrep. > > Best regards, > markus > > http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/convexp?conv=IMAP-mailbox-name&b=&s=ALL --

Re: valid characters in user names- esp. compatibility characters

2004-08-12 Thread Tex Texin
iness Visibility > http://www.webMethods.com > Chair, W3C Internationalization (I18N) Working Group > Chair, W3C-I18N-WG, Web Services Task Force > http://www.w3.org/International > > Internationalization is an architecture. > It is not a feature. > > > ---

valid characters in user names- esp. compatibility characters

2004-08-11 Thread Tex Texin
t the robustness and stability of the GNU libidn implementations of stringprep and punycode which are being considered. I would be glad to hear privately if you have used them and what your experience was/is. tia tex -- ----- Tex Texin cel

Last days for early registration savings-Unicode Conference Sept 7-10, 2004 San Jose, CA

2004-08-01 Thread Tex Texin
  Unicode and Internationalization: Best Practices in the Networked World     IUC26 September 7-10, 2004 San Jose, California, USA Register now! Save with Early-bird Discounts! Includes admission to Transdex! The Conference Program and Registratio

Save with early registration-26th Unicode Conference - Sept 7-10, 2004 - San Jose, CA

2004-07-15 Thread Tex Texin
  Unicode and Internationalization: Best Practices in the Networked World     IUC26 September 7-10, 2004 San Jose, California, USA Register now! Save with Early-bird Discounts! Includes admission to Transdex! The Conference Program and Registratio

Re: Detecting encoding in Plain text

2004-01-08 Thread Tex Texin
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25th Unicode Conference - March 31-April 2, 2004 - Washington, D.C., USA

2004-01-08 Thread Tex Texin
Unicode in Government: Building a Multilingual Infrastructure http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc25 Washington D.C., USA March 31 - April 2, 2004

LAST Call for Papers- Unicode IUC25-March 2004- Washington, D.C., USA

2003-11-09 Thread Tex Texin
Only 1 week left to propose papers for the next Unicode Conference! Submissions are due Nov. 14. In addition to the conference's highly-regarded ensemble of up-to-date information on internationalization and Unicode best practices, this conference will additionally focus on solutions that address

IUC25 Call for Papers - March 2004 - Washington, D.C., USA

2003-10-28 Thread Tex Texin
Only 3 weeks left to propose papers for the next Unicode Conference! This conference will focus on solutions that address the language and multilingual requirements of governments and industries around the world. The conference will be held at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, VA,

Re: [OT?] QBCS

2003-09-01 Thread Tex Texin
"Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set." -- --------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCraft

Unicode Standard version 4.0 published! Conference this week!

2003-09-01 Thread Tex Texin
NEWSFLASH: Version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard is here! The Unicode Consortium and Addison-Wesley announced publication of Version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard last week. You can read about the impact the standard is having on domain names, worldwide communication and the digital d

Re: Hexadecimal never again

2003-08-20 Thread Tex Texin
s. The next base to have that quality is base 256, > which would require us to ransack a few different alphabets and then maybe > create a few symbols in order for us to represent it. -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898

Re: Hexadecimal never again

2003-08-20 Thread Tex Texin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks, but not good enough. > > What guarantee do I have that other Unicode characters will not be added in > the future which have the property "Hex_Digit"? One solution is to join the consortium and be able to vote against such a thing happening! If it is a conce

24th Unicode Conference - Last week to $SAVE with early-birdrates!

2003-08-14 Thread Tex Texin
REGISTER THIS WEEK AND SAVE ON EARLY-BIRD CONFERENCE AND HOTEL RATES! Are you falling behind? Version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard is here! Software and Web applications can now support more languages with greater effi

Re: [OT?] LCD/LED Keyboard

2003-07-25 Thread Tex Texin
the keyboard overlay view of the world and can be seen when looking at a document, or elsewhere. -- --------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com

24th I18N & Unicode Conference - September 3-5, 2003 - Atlanta,Georgia, USA

2003-07-19 Thread Tex Texin
Don't fall behind! Sign up now and get the early bird rates! Twenty-fourth Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC24) Unicode, Internationalization, the Web: Powering Global Business

Re: Combining diacriticals and Cyrillic

2003-07-14 Thread Tex Texin
lyphs directly from the Private Use Area, > thereby producing an elegant graphic. As Unicode code point information is > not placed in a graphic when lettering is added to a graphic, the result > would not show that the Private Use Area had been used. -- -

Re: No UTF-8 in Eudora

2003-07-13 Thread Tex Texin
y * * http://www.evertype.com -- ----- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCrafthttp://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -

Re: 24th Unicode Conference - Atlanta, Georgia USA

2003-07-08 Thread Tex Texin
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote: > > Twenty-fourth Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC24) > > Unicode, Internationalization, the Web: Powering Global Business > > > > http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc24 > > September 3-5, 2003 > >

Re: The character for 10**24 in Japanese numbers (jo)

2003-07-07 Thread Tex Texin
raise chickens, you let them eat what they want, > As soon as they fatten, you boil them in a pot. > This plan is the best for the man who owns them, > But for heaven's sake, don't let the chickens know! > > Yüan Mei (1776), trans. J.D. Schmidt > > - Original Messag

Re: When is a character a currency sign?

2003-07-07 Thread Tex Texin
07, 2003 9:41 PM, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 15:03 -0400 2003-07-07, Tex Texin wrote: > > > > > When is a character properly called a currency sign? > > > > Hunh? When you use it to represent currency. DM was two characters > &g

Re: French group separators, was Re: The character for 10**24 inJapanesenumbers (jo)

2003-07-07 Thread Tex Texin
Right. I was only thinking that if U+202F wasn't available it might be a better choice than NBSP. tex Jim Allan wrote: > > Tex Texin posted on my indication that only U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE and > U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE are available in Unicode for a > digit-grouping

Re: FW: When is a character a currency sign?

2003-07-07 Thread Tex Texin
it is because it has other meanings as well. tex "Kurosaka, Teruhiko" wrote: > > Forgot to copy to the list... > > -Original Message- > From: Kurosaka, Teruhiko > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 12:44 PM > To: 'Tex Texin' > Subject: RE: Wh

When is a character a currency sign?

2003-07-07 Thread Tex Texin
over the weekend. Thanks for the many comments. http://www.xencraft.com/resources/multi-currency.html Tex -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com

Re: French group separators, was Re: The character for 10**24 inJapanese numbers (jo)

2003-07-07 Thread Tex Texin
is the character to > be used before or after certain punctuation for narrow spacing where > no break is allowed, not U+2009 THIN SPACE or any other spacing character. > > Jim Allan -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCrafthttp://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -

French group separators, was Re: The character for 10**24 in Japanese numbers (jo)

2003-07-07 Thread Tex Texin
t: "With a space, a number like "123 456" is NEVER ambiguous for anyone...", the word "never" is too strong. For me it is very ambiguous, since it looks to me like two numbers. ;-) tex Philippe Verdy wrote: > > On Sunday, July 06, 2003 11:21 PM, Stefan Persson <

Re: The character for 10**24 in Japanese numbers (jo)

2003-07-06 Thread Tex Texin
lect both. tex Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 16:39:48 -0400, "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi, > > > > When writing out Japanese numbers a different character is used for every > > unit > > that is a power of 10,000

Re: The character for 10**24 in Japanese numbers (jo)

2003-07-06 Thread Tex Texin
e wrote: > > [UTF-8] > > Tex Texin wrote: > > > On shi/jo the glyph I see in Windows charmap doesn't look > > right. Perhaps it is my particular set of fonts. I expect to > > see a radical on the right that looks like the character for > > child, and ch

Re: The character for 10**24 in Japanese numbers (jo)

2003-07-06 Thread Tex Texin
, and charmap shows something else. I'll wait to see if someone else chimes in pro or con. The rest of the values in your list are consistent with other docs I have looked at. Thanks very much. I appreciate your taking the time to reply to me. tex Ben Monroe wrote: > > [UTF-8] >

Re: The character for 10**24 in Japanese numbers (jo)

2003-07-06 Thread Tex Texin
might be used every day. tex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > . > Tex Texin wrote, > > > Apparently JIS didn't have a character for jo. It looks something like the > > pair: U+79BE U+4E88. > > > > Is there a single character for jo in Unicode? > > Ho

The character for 10**24 in Japanese numbers (jo)

2003-07-06 Thread Tex Texin
If so which is it? If not, what is the correct (or maybe traditional) way to represent this character in Unicode? (I am trying to correct the table at http://www.XenCraft.com/resources/multi-currency.html#ja-count ) tia tex tex -- ----- Tex

Re: 24th Unicode Conference - Atlanta, GA - September 3-5, 2003

2003-07-06 Thread Tex Texin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so that the conference organizer takes note of it. I hope to see you at the conference! Tex Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote: > > On 2003.06.26, 09:00, Tex Texin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Twenty-fourth Internationalization and Unic

IUC23 Unicode conference exhibitors' panel report

2003-06-26 Thread Tex Texin
Hi, For those of you that couldn't attend and were interested in the exhibitor's panel at the last Unicode conference, a brief summary is now online at: http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc23/showcase-report.html If you have any comments or feedback on the page, I would be glad to receive it off-list.

Re: Uquivalence of some Japanes charcaters in Unicode

2003-06-26 Thread Tex Texin
> keyboard only. > > Can anyone please throw some light on this ? > > Regards, > Sourav -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i

24th Unicode Conference - Atlanta, GA - September 3-5, 2003

2003-06-26 Thread Tex Texin
Twenty-fourth Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC24) Unicode, Internationalization, the Web: Powering Global Business http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc24

Re: International Font to be Used

2003-06-09 Thread Tex Texin
MS font which support almost all the languages, > > Pankaj -- --------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCraft

Re: Address of ISO 3166 mailing list

2003-06-05 Thread Tex Texin
William, btw, this forum is archived at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's not discuss these issues here. tex William Overington wrote: > > Tex Texin wrote as follows. > > > Marion, It is very easy to start your own list at > http://www.yahoogroups.com > > > > You ca

Re: Address of ISO 3166 mailing list

2003-06-05 Thread Tex Texin
Marion, It is very easy to start your own list at http://www.yahoogroups.com You can create lists for 3166, as well as for hiberno-english etc. Other Unicode folks have created specialized lists for their own purposes. tex Marion Gunn wrote: > > I attach confirmation that there is (as I expec

Re: Surrogate supported in Mozilla 1.3

2003-03-16 Thread Tex Texin
Roozbeh, thanks for checking and the report. Seems odd. It works on Windows and Mac os X. We will see what Simon says. Version 1.3 right? I'll update the page to indicate it isn't working on Linux. tex Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Tex Texin wrote: > &g

mac os mozilla 1.3 surrogates

2003-03-15 Thread Tex Texin
la finally displays all the examples at http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode-example-plane1.html and http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode-plane1-utf8.html correctly, including the right-to-left Etruscan. Simon -- ----- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 189

Surrogate supported in Mozilla 1.3

2003-03-15 Thread Tex Texin
I confirmed this and the pages look great. I used James Kass Code 2001 fonts for display. I will update the Unicode example intro page to reflect that Mozilla 1.3 supports this. Neat! Just in time for my birthday tomorrow! ;-) Original Message Subject: Surrogates in Mozilla Date

References for: The display of *kholam* on PCs

2003-03-09 Thread Tex Texin
שֹׁמַע (šōmǎ‘), and "ōs" in other places." [ R.K. Harrison, Teach Yourself Biblical Hebrew ] -- ----- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com

Re: UTF-8 Error Handling (was: Re: Unicode 4.0 BETA available for review)

2003-02-27 Thread Tex Texin
8 is to be generated for surrogates, it becomes an issue, but can be difficult to address when the upper layers aren't prepared for it. Anyway, for some reason I thought the situation was also counter to the standard. Now I know it is just bad design. tex -- ---

Re: UTF-8 Error Handling (was: Re: Unicode 4.0 BETA available for review)

2003-02-27 Thread Tex Texin
h a sequence which is ill-formed according to the specification > of UTF-8 in the Unicode Standard. > > --Ken -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGu

Re: Hot Beverage font.

2003-02-19 Thread Tex Texin
like this certainly aren't off-topic. That > was the most productive message William Overtoning has ever sent to the list, > so lets not jump all over him for it. -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 18

Re: Hot Beverage font.

2003-02-18 Thread Tex Texin
the wider coverage. > > Best regards, > > James Kass > . -- ----- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCrafthttp://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -

Re: BOM's at Beginning of Web Pages?

2003-02-17 Thread Tex Texin
ng indicated by other means. Adding a UTF-8 BOM where they are not needed breaks existing software, filters as Martin mentioned, and adds ambiguity in many situations where there is no ambiguity. tex Doug Ewell wrote: > > Tex Texin wrote: > > > 2) Much of this discussion seems

Re: BOM's at Beginning of Web Pages? Mac IE's Euro

2003-02-17 Thread Tex Texin
ncoding is organized such that ASCII-valued bytes stand for ASCII characters (at least until the META element is parsed). META declarations should appear as early as possible in the HEAD element. = Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 14:27, Tex Texin wrote: > > >

Re: BOM's at Beginning of Web Pages? Mac IE's Euro

2003-02-17 Thread Tex Texin
ode. The same situation happens with MS FrontPage 2000 (but I've already > explained that). > > roozbeh -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCrafthttp://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -

Re: BOM's at Beginning of Web Pages?

2003-02-17 Thread Tex Texin
the standard in the past; remember Netscape's notorious > element? But I also think the HTML Working Group should > consider explicitly allowing the BOM at the start of HTML files encoded > in UTF-8. (Note that it is explicitly allowed in XML.) > > -Doug Ewell >

Re: BOM's at Beginning of Web Pages?

2003-02-16 Thread Tex Texin
l illegal. > > Well, I found that, but mischievously tried to hide the fact ;) > > According to the specs, it's illegal, and it doesn't hurt to fix it. So > why shouldn't one? > > roozbeh -- --

Re: list etiquette (was Re: Tailoring of normalization

2003-02-06 Thread Tex Texin
t;. tex Curtis Clark wrote: > > Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > > * Tex Texin > > | > > | There probably isn't a one-size fits all solution, short of those > > | not wanting a response changing their reply-to address to > > | "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > &g

Re: list etiquette (was Re: Tailoring of normalization

2003-02-05 Thread Tex Texin
ot cc'ing those already on the list -- I > likewise don't like receiving personally-addressed copies of messages sent > to the list. -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master

Re: Country names in native script

2003-01-24 Thread Tex Texin
:-) > > I only started internationalizing it (beyond the Latin-1/2 range) a few > days ago. > > Anybody else who has native-script country names or additional postal > information about any country is welcome to send them/it in. Thanks! > > - Frank -- -

Re: Country names in native script

2003-01-23 Thread Tex Texin
ow if it's a mistake or what, but it's definitely a curiosity! > My initial theory is that maybe it's a contraction for Ober-Echtringen? > > - Frank -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCrafthttp://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -

Re: Mapping from HTML to Unicode

2002-12-13 Thread Tex Texin
/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html. > > Stefan > > - Original Message - > From: "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: den 13 december 2002 22:23 > Subj

Re: Mapping from HTML to Unicode

2002-12-13 Thread Tex Texin
gt; > > Kind regards > > Hermes Glarner > > > > PS: Keep on your work folks (wish I could join that group, > > but alas, work...) > > > > > > > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > > (End of Report) --

Re: [OT] RE: Morse code

2002-11-19 Thread Tex Texin
Peter, The song must have went Daditdadit, dadaditdah, not Dadit dadit, dadaditdah. Dadit is "N". Daditdadit is "C". And Dadaditdah is "Q" CQ is the general ham call to invite anyone to speak to the caller. Or maybe it was Daditdadit with some poetic license for a musical rest. ;-) _ . _.._ [

supplementary characters in Windows systems

2002-11-12 Thread Tex Texin
Thanks for several off-line comments, the page has been updated, and its scope broadened a bit. http://www.i18nguy.com/surrogates.html Any other comments or resource suggestions? tex -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:Tex

Speaking plane1-ly

2002-11-11 Thread Tex Texin
ngly. tex -- ----- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:Tex@;XenCraft.com Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCrafthttp://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -

Re: Entering Plane 1 characters in XP

2002-11-11 Thread Tex Texin
oint order. > > John > Global Infrastructure > > -Original Message- > From: Andrew C. West [mailto:andrewcwest@;alumni.princeton.edu] > Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 9:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Entering Plane 1 characters in XP > > On M

Re: Entering Plane 1 characters in XP

2002-11-11 Thread Tex Texin
. http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode-example-plane1.html If I get some time later I'll play with unsetting it and see what happens now. tex "Andrew C. West" wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 08:55:37 -0800 (PST), Tex Texin wrote: > > > > > XP requires the registry ch

Re: Entering Plane 1 characters in XP

2002-11-11 Thread Tex Texin
0 to XP. > > So am I correct in saying that, under XP, 1) no need to change registry > and 2) the Win200 method of typing two surrogates has been replaced by > typing the single scalar value plus Alt-x? > > Thanks - David -- -

Re: Apple .notdef glyph

2002-11-07 Thread Tex Texin
heck > > http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/aplntdf.jpg > > This much enlarged. At size 12 of course much of the detail is lost. -- --------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:Tex@;XenCraft.com Xen

Re: PRODUCING and DESCRIBING UTF-8 with and without BOM

2002-11-04 Thread Tex Texin
you pick lf or lf/cr I don't care.) trivial: Unicode line-separator ;-) -- --------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:Tex@;XenCraft.com Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com

Re: Names for UTF-8 with and without BOM

2002-11-02 Thread Tex Texin
John Cowan wrote: > > Tex Texin scripsit: > > > Interestingly, although I didn't study it in detail, looking at rfc 2376 > > for prioritization over charset conflicts, it seems to recommend > > stripping the BOM when converting from utf-16 to other charsets (

Re: Names for UTF-8 with and without BOM

2002-11-02 Thread Tex Texin
Doug, Doug Ewell wrote: > > Tex Texin wrote: > > > However, I didn't realize that parsers were to allow for the > > possibility of different signatures. > > So a parser has to worry about scsu signatures, etc > > A parser only *has* to read U

Re: Names for UTF-8 with and without BOM

2002-11-02 Thread Tex Texin
John Cowan wrote: > > Tex Texin scripsit: > > > So when the parser gets JOECODE, I can understand ignoring the signature > > and autodetection, but exactly how does it find the first "<"? > > Well, if it begins with an 00 byte, it can't be UTF-8 or

Re: Names for UTF-8 with and without BOM

2002-11-02 Thread Tex Texin
I am surprised at its flexibility for signatures. So when the parser gets JOECODE, I can understand ignoring the signature and autodetection, but exactly how does it find the first "<"? It must have to try all of the encodings known to it... ugh. tex John Cowan wrote: > > Tex Texin

Re: Names for UTF-8 with and without BOM

2002-11-02 Thread Tex Texin
ad's influence on the market, so let's pretend I bit my tongue in the last mail, and once again in this mail. ;-) tex John Cowan wrote: > > Tex Texin scripsit: > > > I didn't think the XML standard allowed for utf-8 files to have a BOM. > > This capability was ne

Re: Names for UTF-8 with and without BOM

2002-11-02 Thread Tex Texin
roup if needed. tex Doug Ewell wrote: > > Tex Texin wrote: > > > I didn't think the XML standard allowed for utf-8 files to have a BOM. > > The standard is quite clear about requiring 0xFEFF for utf-16. > > I would have thought a proper parser would reject a non

Re: Names for UTF-8 with and without BOM

2002-11-02 Thread Tex Texin
pad puts it there should be irrelevant.) Am I wrong about XML and the utf-8 signature? tex -- ----- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:Tex@;XenCraft.com Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com

Re: New Charakter Proposal

2002-10-31 Thread Tex Texin
urther discussion in this group, my feeling is that that sequence may > well become well known and accepted for the purpose very quickly, simply > because where there is a need for such a sequence then, in the absence of > any good reason not to do so, people will often happily

Re: Origin of the term i18n/top 10 list

2002-10-12 Thread Tex Texin
essarily use them > if I wasn't sure who the readers are and what their level of knowledge in > our area is. > > Definitely better than InTeRn@i*nAlIʒ@i*n which OE automatically identifies > as an email address ... > > Dave -- ---

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

2002-10-11 Thread Tex Texin
findings >from Tex. I suspect that the term was in internal use, but not considered as fit for >publication. The term internationalization itself is not used in my earliest >reference, proceedings from an internal DEC conference on International Opportunities >and Differences' Apri

Re: Origin of the term i18n

2002-10-11 Thread Tex Texin
abbreviation, and then for only a few of the > words on your web page. A search for "normalization" and "Unicode" yields > 32,800 enties on Google. A search for "n11n" yields 3. > > Not a trend. > > Mark > __ >

Origin of the term i18n

2002-10-11 Thread Tex Texin
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Re: FW: "MR" in superscript - Spanish translation for "TM"

2002-10-10 Thread Tex Texin
d now here we are with nothing better than the suggestion to use the registration symbol anyway... tex -- ----- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.

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

2002-10-10 Thread Tex Texin
_ > http://www.macchiato.com > ► “Eppur si muove” ◄ > > - Original Message - > From: "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Barry Caplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Rick McGowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: is this a symbol of anything? CJK?

2002-10-10 Thread Tex Texin
Thanks everyone! All set. "John H. Jenkins" wrote: > > On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 02:29 PM, Tex Texin wrote: > > > It looks close to several cjk characters, so I wasn't sure. > > > > I think it's a variant turtle ideo

is this a symbol of anything? CJK?

2002-10-10 Thread Tex Texin
privately, it doesn't really require list discussion. tia tex -- --------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com

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

2002-10-10 Thread Tex Texin
surely came across a lot of early docs >while writing his first book, which was a republication of an online archive he >maintained I think. > > Barry -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: [nelocsig] Historians- what is origin of i18n, l10n, etc.?

2002-10-10 Thread Tex Texin
these acronyms come from MIT. Would anyone like to comment on this version? http://www.i18n.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/02/0345215&mode=thread&threshold= Cheers, Bryan Do Director Interloc Global Solutions, Inc. -- --------

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

2002-10-10 Thread Tex Texin
http://www.li18nux.org > Board of Directors, Free Standards Group, http://www.freestandards.org > Architect/Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc, USA eFAX: 509-693-8356 -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCrafthttp://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -

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

2002-10-09 Thread Tex Texin
I was asked about the origin of these acronyms. Does anyone know who created these or where they were first used? tex -- - Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Xen Master http

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