Re: Recent Threats

2002-02-28 Thread Doug Ewell
David Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > d is just a glyph variant of t. Encot︀e it as "t ". ;-) d is just t plus U+3099 (゙). Isn't that right, ろ〇〇〇〇 ろ〇〇〇? -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California

Re: Recent Threats

2002-02-27 Thread David Hopwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Lukas Pietsch wrote: > > Would you by chance mean 'threads' ? > > > There is a difference, you know ;-) > > Quite right. And, in order to prove Stefan's point: how about starting a > new thread/threat now about why we Germans are so prone to confuse these > le

RE: Recent Threats

2002-02-27 Thread Peter_Constable
On 02/27/2002 06:26:02 AM Alain LaBonté wrote: > So the discussion started with stability of "country" codes... If a code >represents a political territory, it can NOT be stable by nature, whether >it is alphabetic or numeric. The only stability you can expect has to do >with the non-reassign

Re: Recent Threats

2002-02-27 Thread Alain LaBonté 
A 08:48 2002-02-27 -0800, Doug Ewell a écrit : >The relevance of all of this to Unicode (besides the link to >internationalization) is that, unlike ISO 3166, Unicode has a policy that >forbids changing the name or position of a character once it has been >assigned. [Alain] And of course there is

Re: Recent Threats

2002-02-27 Thread Doug Ewell
Alain LaBonté a écrit: >So the discussion started with stability of "country" codes... If a code > represents a political territory, it can NOT be stable by nature, whether > it is alphabetic or numeric. The only stability you can expect has to do > with the non-reassignment of a code within

RE: Recent Threats

2002-02-27 Thread Alain LaBonté 
A 10:48 2002-02-27 +0100, Marco Cimarosti a écrit : >What beats me, is how this discussion mutated to Canadian ethnology! [Alain] Since I started this sub-threa[d|t], it was to say that initial Canada, in the case Québec would become a country (something which is not impossible), would no long

Re: Recent Threats

2002-02-27 Thread $B$m!;!;!;!;(B $B$m!;!;!;(B
>From: "Lukas Pietsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Recent Threats >Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:48:31 +0100 > > > > > Would you by chance mean 'threads' ? > > > There is a

Re: Recent Threats

2002-02-27 Thread Lukas Pietsch
> Would you by chance mean 'threads' ? > There is a difference, you know ;-) Quite right. And, in order to prove Stefan's point: how about starting a new thread/threat now about why we Germans are so prone to confuse these letters, and what consequences that ought to have for a possible unific

RE: Recent Threats

2002-02-27 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Stefan Probst wrote: > can somebody pls. explain to me dummy, what the long threats about > R(o|u)mania, Canada, California, Yankees, and Initials in various > countries.. > have to do with Unicode? ISO 3166 (3-letter identifiers for countries) is one of the standards related to the so

Re: Recent Threats

2002-02-27 Thread Asmus Freytag
Would you by chance mean 'threads' ? There is a difference, you know ;-) A./ At 04:49 PM 2/26/02 +0700, Stefan Probst wrote: >Good Evening, > >can somebody pls. explain to me dummy, what the long threats about >R(o|u)mania, Canada, California, Yankees, and Initials in various >countries..

Recent Threats

2002-02-26 Thread Stefan Probst
Good Evening, can somebody pls. explain to me dummy, what the long threats about R(o|u)mania, Canada, California, Yankees, and Initials in various countries.. have to do with Unicode? Maybe I don't understand the deeper implications not yet? ;) Cheers, Stefan