>I can even read Mark > Davis' signature - that is, it appears correctly, I'd love to know what > it means!
शिष्यादिच्छेत्पराजयम् shiSyAdicchetparAjayam shiSyAt ‘from the student’ icchet ‘one should desire’ parAjayam ‘defeat’ ‘A teacher should wish to be defeated by his own student in scholarship’ I got this from Peri Bhaskararao on our recent trip to India. I had said something reminiscent of this in a talk, and he let me know of this saying -- which I liked -- then sent the details to me later. Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► शिष्यादिच्छेत्पराजयम् ◄ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 2003 Oct 21 12:14 Subject: Re: Klingons and their allies - Beyond 17 planes > On 18/10/2003 10:53, Peter Kirk wrote: > > > On 18/10/2003 08:42, Doug Ewell wrote: > > > >> Tom Gewecke <tom at bluesky dot org> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> The problems mentioned earlier in this thread disappear if one uses > >>> correct html/css for websites and uses html mail rather than plain > >>> text with the Mozilla mail client, which otherwise won't let you > >>> choose the font for incoming mail. > >>> > >> > >> > >> For all the criticisms that people love to fling toward Outlook Express, > >> it does let me choose the font for incoming mail. The e-mail messages I > >> received in Ewellic were plain text. > >> > >> -Doug Ewell > >> Fullerton, California > >> http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > There definitely seems to be a bug in Mozilla in this area. See for > > example http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201695 (still > > unconfirmed - it seems that Mozilla bug reports in this area don't > > even get looked at in six months) and > > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26182 (where they claim > > the problem was fixed three years ago, but it has reappeared). Maybe > > there is a fix by setting some user preferences in a special file, but > > there doesn't seem to be a fix in the UI. > > > > I'll file a new bug - done, see > > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222777. It will be > > interesting to see what response I get, if any. > > > > > It turns out that my bug is a duplicate of > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91190 and work is in > progress on fixing it. Meanwhile there is a workaround. UTF-8 plain text > messages, and web pages, are displayed with the default font for the > system locale. So change the fonts for your system locale, in my case > "western", and your plain text UTF-8 messages will show up in that font > - even with UTF-8 codes outside your system code page. With this > approach (see comments 34 and 36 to bug 91190) I can even read Mark > Davis' signature - that is, it appears correctly, I'd love to know what > it means! > > -- > Peter Kirk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) > http://www.qaya.org/ > > > >
