Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-22 Thread Joel Rees
Hi, William, I have to admit that I really haven't looked carefully at your transformation techniques and their intended purpose. But it strikes me that you might be re-inventing the wheel. A number of schemes exist for squeezing wide bit patterns into narrow bit streams. UTF-8 has been adopted b

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-21 Thread Joel Rees
ROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 2:30 AM Subject: Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode) > The following statements have been made by participants in this thread. > > 1. > > A few days ago I said the

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-20 Thread Paul Keinanen
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:29:17 -0800 (GMT-0800), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On 02/20/2001 11:18:40 AM Tobias Hunger wrote: > >>Looks like David was quoting me. I am working on Babylon and wanted to >make >>clear that it is not unicode conformant as its API uses 32bit wide >characters >>which viola

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-20 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Paul Keinänen said: > >[86-M8] Motion: Amend Unicode 3.1 to change the Chapter 3, C1 conformance > >clause to read "A process shall interpret Unicode code units (values) in > >accordance with the Unicode transformation format used." (passed) > > While this wording makes it possible to handle any

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-20 Thread Tobias Hunger
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 19:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is something that UTC should clean up because C1 is obsolete. In fact, > UTC just took that action when they met a couple of weeks ago: Wow, that's great news for me. I am currently very involved with my studies and other project

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-20 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Tobias Hunger said: > > Looks like David was quoting me. I am working on Babylon and wanted to make > clear that it is not unicode conformant as its API uses 32bit wide characters > which violates clause 1 of Section 3.1. No longer, as Peter pointed out. > Babylon can im-/export UTF-8/16/32

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-20 Thread Peter_Constable
On 02/20/2001 11:18:40 AM Tobias Hunger wrote: >Looks like David was quoting me. I am working on Babylon and wanted to make >clear that it is not unicode conformant as its API uses 32bit wide characters >which violates clause 1 of Section 3.1. This is something that UTC should clean up because

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-20 Thread William Overington
The following statements have been made by participants in this thread. 1. A few days ago I said there was a "widespread belief" that Unicode is a 16-bit-only character set that ends at U+. A corollary is that the supplementary characters ranging from U+1 to U+10 are either little-k

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-20 Thread Tobias Hunger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 February 2001 17:03, you wrote: > In a message dated 2001-02-20 06:18:34 Pacific Standard Time, > > >into a new library called 'Babylon'. It will provide all the > > > functionality defined in the Unicode standard (it is not Unicode bu

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-20 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2001-02-20 06:18:34 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >With the Unicode-related functions in Prague growing out of size, I moved > them > >into a new library called 'Babylon'. It will provide all the functionality > >defined in the Unicode standard (it is n

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-20 Thread P. T. Rourke
until one does extensive reading on the website (or in the book). Patrick Rourke - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 8:37 AM Subject: Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrog

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-20 Thread Peter_Constable
On 02/19/2001 08:05:49 PM David Starner wrote: >With the Unicode-related functions in Prague growing out of size, I moved them >into a new library called 'Babylon'. It will provide all the functionality >defined in the Unicode standard (it is not Unicode but ISO 10646 compliant as >it uses 32bit

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-19 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:42:41PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A few days ago I said there was a "widespread belief" that Unicode is a > 16-bit-only character set that ends at U+. A corollary is that the > supplementary characters ranging from U+1 to U+10 are either > little-

Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate space in Unicode)

2001-02-19 Thread DougEwell2
A few days ago I said there was a "widespread belief" that Unicode is a 16-bit-only character set that ends at U+. A corollary is that the supplementary characters ranging from U+1 to U+10 are either little-known or perceived to belong to ISO/IEC 10646 only, not to Unicode. At lea