Re: OT: OED

2002-04-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
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Re: Greek Extended: question: missing glyphs?

2002-04-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
accented Latin, Greek, or Cyrillic letters because it screw up normalization. Use the actual upsilon capital letter followed by the appropriate breathing and accent marks. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: sources for plane 2 characters?

2002-05-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
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Re: on U+7384 (was Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements

2002-05-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
from an entirely different dynasty is no biggie. So the Qing dictionary, the KangXi, would have some taboo forms which would later become untaboo (especially now, of course, since nobody does that kind of thing anymore). == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Han Radical-Stroke Index

2002-05-13 Thread John H. Jenkins
please? The current version is at http://www.unicode.org/charts/Unihan3.2.pdf. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B

2002-05-13 Thread John H. Jenkins
a kDefinition entry in Unihan.txt. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Additional Deseret letters

2002-05-19 Thread John H. Jenkins
. They were omitted originally because they were considered ligatures. Has there been a new paper and proposal? Yes. WG2 documents N2473 and N2474 (when they show up, which should be shortly) deal with the issue. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com

Re: Additional Deseret letters

2002-05-19 Thread John H. Jenkins
? Yes, they are. Ken Beesley of Xerox Research Center Europe is aware of their use in handwritten materials and argues that treating them as mere ligatures is insufficient. This will be WG2 document N2474. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com

Re: Bengali script - where is khanda ta?

2002-05-21 Thread John H. Jenkins
. (The glyph is also probably missing in that font). I don't think that Code2000 is an OpenType font, which means it won't have the ancillary glyphs and data needed to do full proper support of many languages and scripts. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Bengali script - where is khanda ta?

2002-05-22 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 09:01 PM, James Kass wrote: John H. Jenkins wrote: I don't think that Code2000 is an OpenType font, which means it won't have the ancillary glyphs and data needed to do full proper support of many languages and scripts. Code2000 is an OpenType font

Re: Courtyard Codes and the Private Use Area (derives from Re: Encoding of symbols and a lock/unlock pre-proposal)

2002-05-24 Thread John H. Jenkins
can be used to mark ligation points where they are absolutely necessary; where they are merely stylistic preferences, they belong in markup. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: N2476 a hoax?

2002-05-25 Thread John H. Jenkins
they have at least given it a brief mention in a Character Foldings proposal? I would have hoped so, but evidently that didn't happen. That the UTC is concerned about SC/TC data and other Han equivalences is, in any event, already a part of the public record. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL

Re: Normalisation and font technology

2002-05-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
that are capable of doing this. Agreement; Apple's current solution is a better-than-nothing one, but not really what's best in the long run IMHO. BTW, does FontLab 4 auto-generate OT layout data from the Unicode repertoire of a font? == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Normalisation and font technology

2002-05-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
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Re: Unicode and the digital divide. (derives from Re: Towards some more Private Use Area code points for ligatures.)

2002-05-31 Thread John H. Jenkins
, your divide were to be between Mac OS 6 or earlier and Mac OS 7 or later (the point at which Apple adopted TrueType as its primary font technology), then there are likely 99.99% of all Mac users on the 7-or-later side of the divide. Do you see what I'm asking here? == John H. Jenkins

Re: Unicode and the digital divide.

2002-05-31 Thread John H. Jenkins
ears to hear, let him hear. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Unicode and the digital divide.

2002-05-31 Thread John H. Jenkins
iMac with Mac OS X—again, a Unicode-capable OS. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Q: How many enumerated characters in Unicode?

2002-06-05 Thread John H. Jenkins
can ignore (2) by simply issuing a locale-specific version of a font, but there's no real way to get around (1). == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set

2002-06-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
a conversion table from Windows 950 (with HKSCS) to Unicode? Er, doesn't MS provide one somewhere? == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Chess symbols, ZWJ, Opentype and holly type ornaments.

2002-06-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 03:25 PM, Kenneth Whistler wrote: I think what a number of people on the list have been hinting -- or openly stating -- is that prolixity is not a virtue on an email list when trying to convey one's ideas. IOW, brevity's wit's soul. == John H

Re: (long) Re: Chromatic font research

2002-06-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
Unicode 3.2. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: (long) Re: Chromatic font research

2002-06-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
Hmm. Disregard the last message from me. It isn't ct you're replacing. See how annoying this all is? :-) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: (long) Re: Chromatic font research

2002-06-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
,  fact, to disprove the hypothesis that the experiment supposedly proved. Will you guys *please* stop sending me email with the Shavian letter CHURCH everywhere the Latin letters ct should be? It's most distracting. :-) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: ZWJ and Latin Ligatures (was Re: (long) Re: Chromatic font research)

2002-06-30 Thread John H. Jenkins
is simply not a matter of *plain text*—that is, the message is still perfectly correct whether ligatures are on or off. There are some exceptional cases. The ZWJ/ZWNJ is available for such exceptional cases. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com

Re: (long) Re: Chromatic font research

2002-07-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
a set of ligatures which do not make aesthetic sense for the overall design. This last point, by the way, is the one which is the big sticking point for the large type foundries that I've spoken to. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: ZWJ and Latin Ligatures

2002-07-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
nice to know that someone else looked at the argument and came up with the same conclusion that I did. For the record, Michael, this was the general feeling of the UTC when the matter was debated there. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com

Re: ZWJ and Latin Ligatures (was Re: (long) Re: Chromatic font research)

2002-07-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 06:28 AM, James Kass wrote: John H. Jenkins wrote: That seems pretty clear to me. If you want a ct ligature in your document because you think it looks cool, then you use some higher-level protocol. The looks cool factor simply doesn't apply unless you know

Re: Radicals in CNS 11643-1992, Plane 1, Rows 7,8,9

2002-07-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
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Re: ZWJ and Latin Ligatures (was Re: (long) Re: Chromatic font research)

2002-07-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 02:08 PM, Asmus Freytag wrote: At 11:34 AM 6/30/02 -0600, John H. Jenkins wrote: Remember, Unicode is aiming at encoding *plain text*. For the bulk of Latin-based languages, ligation control is simply not a matter of *plain text*—that is, the message is still

Re: ZWJ and Latin Ligatures

2002-07-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
pair kerning on and off. InDesign has a menu that lets you select degree of ligation. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: ZWJ and Latin Ligatures

2002-07-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
table which is on by default and which isn't revealed to the UI so that the user can't turn them off. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: ZWJ and Latin Ligatures

2002-07-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 09:49 AM, Michael Everson wrote: At 09:41 -0600 2002-07-02, John H. Jenkins wrote: Alas, but that's technically impossible. Both OT and AAT (I'm not sure about Graphite) require that single characters map to single glyphs, which are then processed. Hm? How

Re: ZWJ and Latin Ligatures

2002-07-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
and better ones to him. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: ZWJ and Latin Ligatures

2002-07-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
if something goes wrong and the system attempts to actually *display* one of these virtual glyphs, disaster would ensue. (Dave Opstad and I have had long debates on the safety of doing this.) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: ZWJ and Latin Ligatures

2002-07-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
these days is for the tools that provide advanced layout table support to be keyed to glyph name. Apple's tools allow glyph name, glyph number, of Unicode code point as glyph identifiers. As you say, it makes it possible to cut-and-paste source files and is very handy. == John H. Jenkins

Re: FW: Inappropriate Proposals FAQ

2002-07-03 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 11:57 AM, Asmus Freytag wrote: Klingon (or any of the Latin ciphers/ movie scripts) I'd say Klingon *and* one of the Latin ciphers. Klingon is almost worth a FAQ in itself. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Inappropriate Proposals FAQ

2002-07-03 Thread John H. Jenkins
that whenever j is found with an accent, dotlessj is substituted. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: FW: Inappropriate Proposals FAQ

2002-07-04 Thread John H. Jenkins
of the proposal. :-) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: The pointless thread continues

2002-07-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
to be used with ATSUI. It was kind of cool, actually. We actually have a font zoo stashed away full of pathological fonts which have been known to do all kinds of interesting things if someone should be foolish enough to install them. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re:_How_do_I_encode_HTML_documents_in_old_languages_=C5uch as 17th century Swedih in Unicode?

2002-07-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 11:10 AM, Stefan Persson wrote: There is a big problem in the current Unicode ſtandard, ſince Fraktur letters aren't ſupported in any ſuitable manner. Aargh! Medial long-s! Run away! Run away! :-) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: ZWJ and Latin Ligatures (was Re: (long) Re: Chromatic font research)

2002-07-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
, if the source used the ct ligature... I see your point, but I think we're to the stage where we'll just have to agree to disagree. We *do* agree that ligation is a choice, but you're quite accurate in your assessment of where precisely we diverge. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OpenType] Proposal: Ligatures w/ ZWJ in OpenType

2002-07-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
of invisible characters which should, ordinarily, be left undisplayed including ZWJ, ZWNJ, the bidi overrides, and so on. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Proposal: Ligatures w/ ZWJ in OpenType

2002-07-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
. There are numerous places where Unicode provides multiple ways of representing something. In this instance, Unicode is trying to delineate where a particular mechanism is appropriate and where inappropriate. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Missing character glyph

2002-07-31 Thread John H. Jenkins
; but the font has been entirely redesigned. We really need to update our documentation. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Digraphs as Distinct Logical Units

2002-08-09 Thread John H. Jenkins
, and there is the problem that, as you note, some taboo variants have already been encoded. It's currently scheduled to be reconsidered by the UTC. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/

Re: Taboo Variants

2002-08-09 Thread John H. Jenkins
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Re: Keys. (derives from Re: Sequences of combining characters.)

2002-09-27 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 09:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt there's anyone on this list that always agrees with me I think you're wrong, there, Peter. I *never* disagree with you. :-) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: script or block detection needed for Unicode fonts

2002-09-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
with the set font. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: Mac Unicode question

2002-10-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
which do not explicitly use ATSUI or MLTE are limited in how much of the font they can use. Cocoa apps are pretty much able to do anything. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: is this a symbol of anything? CJK?

2002-10-10 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 02:29 PM, Tex Texin wrote: It looks close to several cjk characters, so I wasn't sure. I think it's a variant turtle ideograph. :-) (Nothing bad, so far as I know.) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-14 Thread John H. Jenkins
really insist that they do the right thing. The same is true of Tibetan. Even the PRC's own fonts have this problem. This is an unfortunate bind we were put in and I hope we can correct it in a not-too-distant release. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: the carnival of lost souls

2002-10-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
semi-structured, no less.http://www.ccil.org/~cowan But I'll be carefree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using XSLThttp://www.reutershealth.com In an XML DBMS. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Sorting on number of strokes for Traditional Chinese

2002-10-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
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Re: Sorting on number of strokes for Traditional Chinese

2002-10-16 Thread John H. Jenkins
get beyond the stroke-count level. The five-stroke-type classification used by the PRC is a fairly recent innovation and not universally used. Is there any online source for such data? Even for smaller sets than Unicode CJK. Not that I'm aware. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures

2002-11-03 Thread John H. Jenkins
clearly allows both approaches. The ZWJ mechanism is not *the* Unicode approach. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures

2002-11-05 Thread John H. Jenkins
strings of Unicode characters into them. TrueType fonts are perfectly capable of supporting ligatures. OpenType, AAT, and Graphite all use TrueType fonts, and all support ligatures. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures

2002-11-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
is impossible to fulfill, it can be ignored. For discretionary ligatures like ct, this is the appropriate response. (Matters are a bit more complicated for required ligatures, of course.) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Info: Apple OSX Font Tools Suite 1.0.0 Released

2002-11-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
: * The Apple Font Tool Suite Manual (51 pages) * Tool Quick Reference (8 pages) * Tutorial (62 pages) * Tutorial Command Summary (8 pages) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: Info: Apple OSX Font Tools Suite 1.0.0 Released

2002-11-12 Thread John H. Jenkins
Try control-clicking on the link and then selecting Save link to disk from the popup menu. On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 09:55 AM, Dean Snyder wrote: At 4:49 PM John H. Jenkins wrote: Cupertino 11/8/02: Today the Apple Font Group released its new suite of Unix command line font tools

Re: N2515: Request for Roadmap - plane 3

2002-11-12 Thread John H. Jenkins
versions of the Han ideographs are something we haven't even got a good model for how to handle yet. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: N2515: Request for Roadmap - plane 3

2002-11-13 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 03:22 AM, Andrew C. West wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 02:03:27 -0800 (PST), John H. Jenkins wrote: Nope. We're still doing modern stuff. Well, there's no rush, just as long as you get round to it sometime ... how about reserving a plane now anyway

Re: The result of the plane 14 tag characters review.

2002-11-14 Thread John H. Jenkins
, and other typographic preferences. Indeed, it becomes inconvenient to have them in a different layer as it means that the client has to do *two* levels of processing to derive this information, rather than just one. = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: ATSUI for MacOS9

2002-11-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
contact me so I can ask a few more questions? Thanks a lot. You could send my questions to me and I can have them circulated to the proper people. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: Why isn't my character displaying

2002-11-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 05:23 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote: What is wrong? Is it something to do with font fallbacks? I am not touching font fallbacks at all. All I did was set the FontID for my ATSUStyle object, to that for Monaco plain. I'm a bit stuck here, can someone help? I

Re: Unihan Mandarin Readings

2002-12-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
Is it possible to regenerate the Unihan database with the correct secondary Mandarin readings ? Certainly in the Unicode 4.0 time-frame we can improve things. I can't make any guarantees, however. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: Unihan Mandarin Readings

2002-12-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
so that people don't have to rewrite their perl scripts and other parsers. I know you're asking if we could add an XML format *in addition* to the non-XML one, but given the size of Unihan.txt, that isn't likely. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: CJK fonts

2002-12-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
Web page at http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: Small Latin Letter m with Macron

2003-01-16 Thread John H. Jenkins
of handwriting and uses such abbreviations, then you would need the font to ligate mm sequences into a *glyph* showing an m with an overbar. Remembering, of course, to use ZWNJ to mark places where this ligature may not be used. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: newbie 18030 font question

2003-01-16 Thread John H. Jenkins
. Well, not from Apple's, anyway. Several GB18030 fonts come with Mac OS X 10.2, but we don't have a license to make them freely downloadable. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: Small Latin Letter m with Macron

2003-01-16 Thread John H. Jenkins
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Re: unicode in Mac

2003-01-26 Thread John H. Jenkins
. Otherwise any of the free Greek fonts on the Internet would work. On Mac OS 9, the situation is a bit grimmer, as there aren't many Unicode-savvy applications. SUE would be one option. You should be able to find it using Google. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: 4701

2003-02-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Google, "year of the goat" has the lead. Systran has sheep. KangXi says (if I'm understanding it correctly) something like "animal with curved horns." (It's more complex than that, but I think I caught the essence.) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: VS vs. P14 (was Re: Indic Devanagari Query)

2003-02-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: traditional vs simplified chinese

2003-02-13 Thread John H. Jenkins
with the bone radical) which have different appearance in simplified and traditional Chinese, even though the two have been unified in Unicode. Identifying a text as simplified vs. traditional could help in automatic font selection. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Converting old TrueType fonts to Unicode

2003-02-14 Thread John H. Jenkins
for this purpose. For people on Mac OS X, there is a set of tools available for download from http://developer.apple.com/fonts/ which, like TTX, can decompile table from TrueType and OpenType fonts and let the user edit the results. These *do* support astral characters. == John H. Jenkins

Re: Everson Mono

2003-02-16 Thread John H. Jenkins
the astral planes. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: Finding a font that contains a particular character

2003-02-17 Thread John H. Jenkins
the character palette (in the keyboard menu) or install Apple's font tools http://developer.apple.com/fonts and use ftxinstalledfonts with the -U option. Both of these work with astral characters. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: [OpenType] PS glyph `phi' vs `phi1'

2003-02-19 Thread John H. Jenkins
use the loopy form to ensure appropriate contrast with the straight form used for U+03D5. /quote What annotation in 3.2 do you feel is incorrect? == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: The display of *kholam* on PCs

2003-03-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
AAT support for their specific font without too much trouble. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: FAQ entry (was: Looking for information on the UnicodeData file)

2003-03-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
is. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: Encoding: Unicode Quarterly Newsletter

2003-03-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
pounds]. Apparently a weighty publication, that forthcoming Unicode standard... Cheers, Otto Stolz == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tejat.net/

Re: Unicode not in Quark 6

2003-06-22 Thread John H. Jenkins
). I'm not sure of the status of Unicode support, but it seems to be fine if you're not worrying about collating or similar services. It's what's used at the moment to host the Unihan database, for example. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com

Re: French group separators

2003-07-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
prefer to say Mr Roberts. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/

Re: French group separators

2003-07-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 4:38 PM, Michael Everson wrote: At 16:22 -0600 2003-07-07, John H. Jenkins wrote: IIRC the English prefer to say Mr Roberts. The, ahem, Irish too. ;-) Well, to be frank, I'm sure that the Welsh, Scots, and Manx probably do, too. (Did I leave anybody out *this* time

Re: missing .GIF's for ideographs on unicode.org?

2003-07-17 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 12:00 AM, Richard Cook wrote: I'm guessing this just hasn't been implemented yet. You are guessing correctly. Once some of the dust settles from my day job, I expect I can get to this. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Last Resort Glyphs (was: About the European MES-2 subset)

2003-07-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
think PUA characters are used, actually, but I could be wrong. No, it uses the acutal Unicode characters, and just has a huge cmap that maps everything in Unicode to the glyph for its block. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/

Re: Last Resort Glyphs (was: About the European MES-2 subset)

2003-07-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
it would be useful for its Mac users. Er, no. Apple thought it would be useful for its Mac users and commissioned Michael to make glyphs. (And I personally think he's done an excellent job.) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/

Re: Karen Language Representation in Unicode

2003-07-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
=GraphiteFonts. We could probably help you get it to work on Mac OS X. Meanwhile, Xenotype claims to have a Burmese language kit for Mac OS X (http://www.xenotypetech.com/osxBurmese.html), although nobody at Apple has seen it, so we can't confirm that it works as advertised. == John H

Re: About the European MES-2 subset

2003-07-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
converts Unicode to old Mac scripts which it then renders. That's why all the question marks when the page is looked at with MS Explorer. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/

Re: proposal for a creative commons character

2004-06-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
the question of the other symbols. It's a logo. We normally don't do logos. To be a little less terse, in the case of symbols like this, it is the strong preference not to encode as a means to encourage use. John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com

Re: number of bytes for simplified chinese

2004-06-28 Thread John H. Jenkins
using UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32. John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/

Re: Looking for transcription or transliteration standards latin- arabic

2004-07-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
. :-) John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/

Re: Chinese Simplified - How many bytes

2004-07-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
. Is it true that, to represent Chinese simplified programmatically, two bytes will do. Unicode in the UTF-16 encoding will cover almost all the simplified Chinese characters people use today in two bytes. There are the occasional exceptions which will require four bytes. John H. Jenkins

Re: Unicode v. 4 font software for Mac

2004-07-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
that the latest version of FontLab will generate an appropriate cmap entry for it, but I don't know for sure.) John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/

Re: Unicode v. 4 font software for Mac

2004-07-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
to the PUA using ftxdumperfuser (or remove their Unicode mappings altogether), and re-add (or re-shift) the Unicode mappings after using FontLab with the same tool. John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/

Re: Problem with accented characters

2004-08-23 Thread John H. Jenkins
is in (a slightly altered form of) NFD. Slightly altered? Yes, the specification for the Mac file system was frozen before NFD had been developed by the UTC, so it isn't exactly the same. But it's close. John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/

Re: Arial Unicode MS

2004-12-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Dec 6, 2004, at 10:23 AM, Johannes Bergerhausen wrote: From some discussions here i learned that Arial Unicode MS contains about 50.000 glyphs, which is about the size of characters encoded in Unicode 2.0 and was shipped the last time bundled with Office for Windows 2003. A Pan-Unicode-Font

Re: IUC27 Unicode, Cultural Diversity, and Multilingual Computing / Africa is forgotten once again.

2004-12-08 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Dec 8, 2004, at 3:57 PM, Patrick Andries wrote: Azzedine Ait Khelifa a écrit : Hello All, The subject of this conference is really interesting and veryusefull. But once again Africa is forgotten. I want to know, if we can have the same conference AfricaOriented scheduled ? If Not, What

Re: US-ASCII (was: Re: Invalid UTF-8 sequences)

2004-12-13 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Dec 10, 2004, at 1:25 PM, Tim Greenwood wrote: Is that like the 'Please RSVP' that I see all too often? Or should that not be excused? Or -- my own personal favorite -- in the year AD 2004.

Re: Simplified Chinese radical set in Unihan

2004-12-16 Thread John H. Jenkins
As you say, the main problem is that there are so many different possible sets. Some will be proprietary, which would limit their usefulness although there would, I believe, otherwise be no objection to its inclusion. If you can come up with a reasonably standard set and reasonably consistent

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