> I am not very happy about loading the plain-text in browsers. Three > of my browsers load it and *all* the French UTF-8 is displayed in > Latin 1.
Michael, you just need to put a BOM at the start of the file. Direct access to the plain text file, would be much preferred. The file is small -- there is no need to zip it (unlike, say, Unihan!). Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com â ààààààààààààààààààààà â ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri, 2004 May 21 07:10 Subject: Re: ISO 15924 draft fixes > At 10:28 +0200 2004-05-21, Philippe Verdy wrote: > >From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> At 23:21 +0200 2004-05-20, Philippe Verdy wrote: > >> >There is still a conflict of "Code" for Mandaean, is it "Mand" or "Mnda"? > >> > >> Mand. > > > >OK This is now corrected on the new HTML pages. > >But the new "normative" plain-text file now contains... "Mnda" !!! > > Whoops. It was late, and that change was made by hand. > > >As a side note to Michael or the other 6 RA members (Ken, and Rick notably), I > >don't think it's even a good idea to ZIP this reference plain-text file due to > >its very small size (which smaller than each of the HTML versions of > >codelists). > > Surely it is not harmful. > > >It could be presented directly under the URL: > >http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-code.UTF-8.txt > > > >The plain text would appear directly in the browser window where it could be > >saved as well, without needing any ZIP tool... > > Everyone has a zip tool. > > I am not very happy about loading the plain-text in browsers. Three > of my browsers load it and *all* the French UTF-8 is displayed in > Latin 1. > > >I hope that the published versions will soon be acceptable for > >getting from the current "FDIS" status (Final Draft International > >Standarf) to the "Standard" status in ISO. I looked into the TC46 > >web site and for now ISO 15924 is still not a final standard but a > >final draft > > It *has* been published by ISO, though the TC46 web site doesn't reflect this. > -- > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com > >
