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 standards -

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 is

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 codes? De

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 ce

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 century

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 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

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 you gotta do is

Why not to move characters (was: is there any way to change already defined character codes?)

2000-08-08 Thread 11digitboy
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is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-07 Thread Sandro Karumidze
Sorry disturbing you with maybe silly question. There are people from the government of Georgia interested in possibility in altering Unicode standard it terms of changing codes for some of Georgian characters. Does this type of things happen in Consortium and if yes under what circumstances.

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