Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Rick McGowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OK, here is another semi-official reply from me, as a UTC member, since everyone else seems to be at the UTC meeting this week... Technically, the presence of a person at the UTC meeting does not block their participation. :-) michka Michael Kaplan Tri

RE: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-09 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 06:36 AM 8/8/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 08/08/2000 06:40:17 AM Marco.Cimarosti wrote: > > >(You definitely need an official reply, but let's go on with some more > >informal chatting.) Just to make it official. The Unicode Consortium has a policy of no longer changing the code lo

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-09 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 11:01 PM 8/7/00 -0800, Jianping Yang wrote: >Not really for Unicode in which we have relocated some codepoints for Hangul >between Unicode 1.1 and 2.0 :) > >Regards, >Jianping. > >"Christopher J. Fynn" wrote: > > Allowing changes like this would break > > existing implementations of these stan

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > E.g., if you look at the Latin part, you see that > > the 26 letters used in > > modern English are all contiguously ordered in > > two areas: U0041 to U005A > > (uppercase) and U0061 to U007A (lowercase). > > Yeah, but so what? All yo

RE: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread 11digitboy
-- Robert Lozyniak Accusplit pedometer manufactures can go suck eggs My page: http://walk.to/11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (917) 421-3909 x1133 - voicemail/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sandro Karumidze wrote: > > The issue is that in Unicode there is a sequence > of Georgian > > carac

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread Rick McGowan
The question is: > Is there any way to change already defined character codes? And the definitive answer is "No". Marco Cimarosti wrote: > (You definitely need an official reply, but let's go on with some more > informal chatting.) OK, here is another semi-official reply from me, as a UTC mem

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 11:01 PM -0800 8/7/00, Jianping Yang wrote: >Not really for Unicode in which we have relocated some codepoints for Hangul >between Unicode 1.1 and 2.0 :) > And have regretted it ever since. Moving the Hangul and renaming æ have caused no end of problems. It was the fact that it was so disastr

RE: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread Peter_Constable
On 08/08/2000 06:40:17 AM Marco.Cimarosti wrote: >(You definitely need an official reply, but let's go on with some more >informal chatting.) All the "officials" are busy meeting this week, but the statement, "Can't be done" is just as true whether it comes from the lips (or... fingertips) of a

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread John Cowan
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Sandro Karumidze wrote: > The issue is that in Unicode there is a sequence of Georgian caracters different > from what this people think should be. > > In modern Georgian there are 33 widely used characters. However before there were > 38 characters. In beginning of this cen

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread John Cowan
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Jianping Yang wrote: > Not really for Unicode in which we have relocated some codepoints for Hangul > between Unicode 1.1 and 2.0 :) Yes, but NEVER AGAIN. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de c

RE: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
Sandro Karumidze wrote: > The issue is that in Unicode there is a sequence of Georgian > caracters different > from what this people think should be. > [...] In beginning of this century 5 characters were dropped > [...] > In Unicode this 5 characters follow 33. There is a different > point of

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
--- Original Message - From: "Sandro Karumidze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 3:26 AM Subject: Re: is there any way to change already defined character

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread Sandro Karumidze
Dear Chris, Thank you for your answer. > May I ask what is the reason these people from the government of Georgia want > to change the codepoints of some Georgian characters? There is probably another > good solution (or solutions) for whatever problem they think would be solved by > changing en

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread Jianping Yang
Not really for Unicode in which we have relocated some codepoints for Hangul between Unicode 1.1 and 2.0 :) Regards, Jianping. "Christopher J. Fynn" wrote: > Sandro > > I'm sure someone official will give you an official answer, but I know the only > answer you are going to get to your question

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-07 Thread Christopher J. Fynn
Sandro I'm sure someone official will give you an official answer, but I know the only answer you are going to get to your question is NO - there is no way to change the encoding point of a character (or to change a character name) once it is in the Unicode or ISO 10646 standards. Allowing change