Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

My grateful thanks to everyone who contributed to this discussion. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is significantly better informed. I wonder whether Microsoft will now unify (if they haven't already, since Word 97) the behaviour of the Word case-changing commands, where the language is "Frenc

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

A 12:21 2001-12-01 +0100, Thierry Sourbier a écrit : >Mike, > > > In the column headed "Élément de donnée", the data items > > corresponding to the codes 1 and 2 are given as "Masculin" > > and "Féminin". In the English version they are correctly > > given as "Male" and "Female".

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

Mike, > In the column headed "Élément de donnée", the data items > corresponding to the codes 1 and 2 are given as "Masculin" > and "Féminin". In the English version they are correctly > given as "Male" and "Female". Is it not the case that > French maintains the same distin

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

A 10:12 2001-11-30 +0100, Thierry Sourbier a écrit : > > Otto Stolz wrote: > > So, the accent circonflex is retained on â, ê, and ô, and > > its use on î and û has been restricted. > >Restricted may be a little too strong, litteraly it says the circonflex >accent "won't be mandatory except where

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

> Otto Stolz wrote: > So, the accent circonflex is retained on â, ê, and ô, and > its use on î and û has been restricted. Restricted may be a little too strong, litteraly it says the circonflex accent "won't be mandatory except where it is useful : ... " :). Cheers, Thierry <><><><><><><><><><

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Only one part of this is relevant to Unicode: J M Sykes wrote: > If [French capitals are] not accented, this implies that round > trip case folding loses information. Case folding and case mapping are different things. You mean case mapping, I think. Case map

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

At 09:04 11/29/2001, Michael Everson wrote: >Odd. The Irish Gaelic typewriters had capital and small acute accents, and >capital and small dots above. That took two keys, though, and French uses >more than two diacritical marks. It's been a long time since I looked at an old French typewriter,

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

In a message dated 2001-11-29 8:58:42 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Please spread the word. My French colleagues are frustrated and embarassed > by the continued propagation of this unfortunate myth. > -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

At 09:28 11/29/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please spread the word. My French colleagues are frustrated and > embarassed > > by the continued propagation of this unfortunate myth. I guess taken out of context, that does sound a little strange. I meant, of course, to encourage people to

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

At 02:16 11/29/2001, J M Sykes wrote: >1.Is the assumption that the French do not accent capitals > correct? I'm sure I've seen them accented, though I couldn't > possibly say this was consistent. If they're not accented, > this implies that round trip case folding loses inf

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

At 08:48 -0800 2001-11-29, John Hudson wrote: >No, this assumption is not correct. French typewriters could not >type accents over uppercase letters Odd. The Irish Gaelic typewriters had capital and small acute accents, and capital and small dots above. That took two keys, though, and French

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

J M Sykes wrote: > A colleague shares my belief that a decision was made, not too > many years ago, to abolish the circumflex in French. Are we > correct? Not exactly. Cf. : | Après avoir examiné cette question avec la plus grand

Comments on FCD 5218, "Codes for the representation of human sexes"

Greetings, and apologies for being a little off-topic. The Final Committee Draft of this standard is, like many ISO standards, in both English and French. A colleague has made the following comments on it: Is the column heading "Élément de donnée" correct? We understand that in standard