Re: [Persian Locale d6 Feedback] Short Format Dates

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote:

 Hi Behdad,

Hello,

 Glad to hear the good news. Is there anything that may impact end
 users? If there is, please provide a none-technical overview of the
 changes that will affect normal users of Persian text on computer.

No, not really.

 What I meant about U+060D is that I expected to find something about it
 in /UNIDATA/PropList.txt but it wasn't there. That is the reason I
 asked. Now I have figured it out. Both the applicable defaults and also
 explicitly in UnicodeData.txt. Sometimes I find UCD (Unicode Character
 Database) files confusing. Is there any hope they will be cleaned up
 further? For example, why not explicitly include characters in all
 expected places instead of relying on fallback and default properties?

I'm confused now.  What do you expect in PropList.txt about
U+060D?  If you read UCD.html, it says that files like
PropList.txt just list those code points that hold a true value
for the binary property.  Why they don't list the all??  Why
should the do?  There are more than a million of them, while
poins of interest are usually less than a thousand ones...

behdad

 - Hooman

 On Jun 24, 2004, at 12:17 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

  On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
 
  On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote:
 
  Excellent news. While talking about clarifications, I couldn't find
  the
  properties for U+060D. Do you have information in this regard?
 
  No idea.  What kind of information are you looking for?  If this
  is what you like to hear, yes using that character instead of
  slash, solves your poblem of entering short dates. :-)
 
  Ok, here comes the more info from Chapter 8 of Unicode available
  online at:
 
  http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch08.pdf#G20596
 
  It says:
 
  Date Separator. U+060D ARABIC DATE SEPARATOR is used in Pakistan
  and India between the numeric date and the month name when
  writing out a date.  This sign is distinct from U+002F SOLIDUS,
  which is used, for example, as a separator in currency amounts.
 
 
  --behdad
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Re: [Persian Locale d6 Feedback] Short Format Dates

[Hooman Mehr]

Hi Behdad,
On Jun 26, 2004, at 1:50 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
I'm confused now.  What do you expect in PropList.txt about
U+060D?  If you read UCD.html, it says that files like
PropList.txt just list those code points that hold a true value
for the binary property.  Why they don't list the all??  Why
should the do?  There are more than a million of them, while
poins of interest are usually less than a thousand ones...
behdad
You are right, that was my mistake. I had some wrong perceptions about 
U+060D that made me believe it would belong there. I am starting to 
feel I need to import all those data files into a database for quick 
reference. I am getting tired of having to find information scattered 
across so many different places (book, charts and various data files) I 
still feel there should be a better way for organizing all the 
information in Unicode.

- Hooman
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