Re: Misinformation!

2004-06-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 18:03, Ordak D. Coward wrote: Behdad, does Unicode consortium provide a search collation table in addition to the collation table used for sorting? Or can the same table be used for this seach purposes as well? Well, I'm not Behdad, but I guess I have some answers. The

Re: Misinformation!

2004-06-05 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 20:04, Ordak D. Coward wrote: Is there a trustworhty easy-to-read document somewhere on the Internet that mentions all this issues that I can refer people to it? I don't know easy to read may mean. Perhaps Connie's pages are the best for that. For the more technical type,

RE: Misinformation!

2004-06-04 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Thanks for you note. There's a difference in the case of C++ standard and web standards: Writing non-standard C++ code only produces compile-time problems, but if you happen to compile the code, it works correctly (or supposed to do so). But it's quite a different case in web. 30-40 percent is

Re: Misinformation!

2004-06-04 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi there, Well, this approach has been investigated by some people already. Another approach that is easier to implement is use a javascript to translate the page on the browser side. For people using PHP, it's a couple on lines to open an output buffer that does the translation, and I'm sure

RE: Misinformation!

2004-06-04 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Here is a solution (in fact a hack) that if implemented correctly, can resolve some of the issues till people and Google start using correct software: With a little tweaking, the web servers can translate the correct Unicode to the incorrect unicode desired so much by the Win9X users. That

RE: Misinformation!

2004-06-04 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
There's a difference in the case of C++ standard and web standards: Writing non-standard C++ code only produces compile-time problems, but if you happen to compile the code, it works correctly (or supposed to do so). Well, that's not exactly so. Some non-conformant behavior tend to generate

Misinformation!

2004-06-03 Thread Ordak D. Coward
I recently came across this article http://www.khabgard.com/?id=844986758 which is endorsed by some other weblog authors. The author encourages using adifferent Yeh characters for middle and end placements. The author in fact uses U+064A(ARABIC LETTER YEH) for middle-of-word and beginning-of-word

Re: Misinformation!

2004-06-03 Thread C Bobroff
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Ordak D. Coward wrote: I recently came across this article http://www.khabgard.com/?id=844986758 which is endorsed by some other weblog authors. The author encourages using adifferent Yeh characters for middle and end placements. Oh my! I think someone was listening to