Re: Hanzi trad-simp folding and z-variants

2013-06-09 Thread john knightley
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.comwrote: Though some confusion as what other questions are being discussed here. I think I misused the expression folding at some point. But the original query explicitly asked about do[ing] traditional to simplified

Re: Hanzi trad-simp folding and z-variants

2013-06-09 Thread john knightley
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.comwrote: Some Cantonese characters, as for Sawndip by their construction tend to be ambiguous which often means 'something which sounds like this known character, and therefore the meaning must be learned. Many

Re: Hanzi trad-simp folding and z-variants

2013-06-09 Thread john knightley
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.comwrote: For me non-standardized' means there is not one recognized standard, this does not mean that things are completely unstable, nor that there are no traditions of what character is used for what word that have

Re: Hanzi trad-simp folding and z-variants

2013-06-09 Thread john knightley
On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.comwrote: The way the Cheung-Bauer list was compiled certainly hard to see how most of the characters would be in widely known. I'd need to look at CB again for accurate numbers, but to some extent it's simply because

Re: Hanzi trad-simp folding and z-variants

2013-06-08 Thread john knightley
basis. Regards John Knightley Stephan

Re: Hanzi trad-simp folding and z-variants

2013-06-08 Thread john knightley
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.unicode.org/**reports/tr38/http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr38/does a good summary of the possibilities. Which and where? Section 3.7.1 Simplified and Traditional Chinese Variants talks about

Re: Hanzi trad-simp folding and z-variants

2013-06-08 Thread john knightley
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.comwrote: The situation also tends to be complex once one steps putside of Putonghua. Given that the situation there is a lack of standardization (and a lack of tables laying out variant spellings), I don't think

Re: Hanzi trad-simp folding and z-variants

2013-06-08 Thread john knightley
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.comwrote: I. Which and where? Section 3.7.1 Simplified and Traditional Chinese Variants talks about converting between Simplified and Traditional Chinese. You wrote this http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr38/

Re: Hanzi trad-simp folding and z-variants

2013-06-07 Thread john knightley
which if present which it probably would good to fold in but these are not in the scope of UniHan. Regards John Knightley On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Stephan Stiller stephan.stil...@gmail.comwrote: Hi John, This is one of those questions that I've been wondering about as well ... my guess

Re: In 2013, there are still programs with huge Unicode bugs :-(

2013-03-22 Thread john knightley
But is how do we know whether the bug is there all the time! On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: This one is incredible: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922433

Re: pIqaD in actual use

2013-03-03 Thread john knightley
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com wrote: On 2 Mar 2013, at 23:24, Peter Constable peter...@microsoft.com wrote: Well, I suppose it's long enough since Klingon was invented that it's conceivable there are people that grew up as in homes with dedicated Klingon

Re: pIqaD in actual use

2013-03-03 Thread john knightley
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com wrote: On 3 Mar 2013, at 12:06, john knightley john.knight...@gmail.com wrote: When translating from one language to another there are always some words and expressions for which there exists no exact equivalents. Yes

Re: The rules of encoding (from Re: Missing geometric shapes)

2012-11-10 Thread john knightley
Whilst using the PUA is far from perfect at the end of the day it is better than the alternative of not using the PUA. Regards John On 10 Nov 2012 17:37, William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.com wrote: On Thursday 8 November 2012, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: 2012/11/8

Re: The rules of encoding (from Re: Missing geometric shapes)

2012-11-08 Thread john knightley
One key criteris for inclusion in Unicode is that a character or symbol be in circulation. Whether these are hand written, printed or electronic. If one creates a new a new character then one first must get others to use it, this takes time. John On 8 Nov 2012 14:57, William_J_G Overington

Re: Character set cluelessness

2012-10-02 Thread john knightley
Sad to say this seems to be close to the norm for all to many large organizations where if it isn't in the 1990's version of the Times Roman font then it's out. John On 3 Oct 2012 00:26, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote: The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has released a

Re: OFL (RE: Code2000 on SourceForge)

2012-02-06 Thread john knightley
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Larson, Timothy E. telar...@west.comwrote: FWIW, some of us consider OFL to be non-free (it doesn't allow sale alone), so won't install fonts using it at all. Could you explain this further? This is the first I've heard of this issue. Here the write

Re: Code2000 on SourceForge

2012-02-04 Thread john knightley
Yesterday I contacted the person claiming to be James Kass the maker of the Code2000 series of fonts. The person using the account clearly is not James Kass the maker of the font. When asked questions he restricts himself to answers that can be found by a google search and when asked further