Re: Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-15 Thread Peter Kirk
On 15/08/2003 15:18, Jim Allan wrote: Ah! But I still see "LATIN" coming out perfectly as "LATIN" in small capitals. I lucked out. Investigation shows that my system is picking up exactly the right small capital characters from the PUA in the fonts Pigiarniq and Pigiarniq Italic available fr

Re: Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-15 Thread Jim Allan
Paul Kirk posted in regards to bad characters from the Unicode PDS files: What seems to be happening, in Windows 2000, is that the text on the clipboard is made up of PUA character codes U+F7XX, where the XX seems to be the corresponding ASCII code. For example, small caps "LATIN" comes out as F76

Re: Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Kirk
On 14/08/2003 12:24, Eric Muller wrote: Peter Kirk wrote: And indeed the software being used is produced by a consortium member. Perhaps the embarrassment should be more that member's, that their software is not Unicode compatible. The member in question is a company. Companies are not emba

Re: Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Muller
Peter Kirk wrote: And indeed the software being used is produced by a consortium member. Perhaps the embarrassment should be more that member's, that their software is not Unicode compatible. The member in question is a company. Companies are not embarrassed nor ashamed. whilst implementin

Re: Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Kirk
On 14/08/2003 11:44, Jim Allan wrote: Peter Kirk posted: The documentation is great, but I have had some problems copying text from it (with Acrobat Reader 5), in particular with text in small capitals e.g. Unicode character names. For example, I get the following from p.44: The sequence of Unico

Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-14 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Well, I've been promising that good things would come to those who wait. ;-) At last, the Unicode website has been updated with the online chapters for Unicode 4.0. See: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ Or just go to the Unicode 4.0 link from the home page. Enjoy. --Ken P.S. Just

Re: Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Kirk
On 11/08/2003 17:37, Kenneth Whistler wrote: P.S. Just FYI, Peter K., now it is o.k. for everyone to come back from their August Unicode vacations. Let the textual criticism begin! You asked for it! Just give me a little time to read... Peter -- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) [EMAIL

Re: Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-14 Thread Jim Allan
Peter Kirk posted: The documentation is great, but I have had some problems copying text from it (with Acrobat Reader 5), in particular with text in small capitals e.g. Unicode character names. For example, I get the following from p.44: The sequence of Unicode characters U+0061 “a”   

Re: Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Kirk
On 14/08/2003 10:43, Rick McGowan wrote: Peter Kirk suggested... Interesting and a little embarrassing that Unicode's own documentation is not Unicode compatible! I don't think it's very embarrassing... The Unicode consortium after all doesn't produce book editing and typesetting softwa

Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-14 Thread Lisa Moore
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Re: Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Kirk
On 11/08/2003 17:37, Kenneth Whistler wrote: Well, I've been promising that good things would come to those who wait. ;-) At last, the Unicode website has been updated with the online chapters for Unicode 4.0. See: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ Or just go to the Unicode 4.0 link f

Re: Unicode 4.0 is online at last!

2003-08-14 Thread Rick McGowan
Peter Kirk suggested... > Interesting and a little embarrassing that Unicode's own documentation > is not Unicode compatible! I don't think it's very embarrassing... The Unicode consortium after all doesn't produce book editing and typesetting software, we use other peoples' software. I thin