Re: Linguistic precedence [was: (TC304.2313)

2000-06-20 Thread Gary Roberts
Yes. The name for the language that English speakers might correctly consider to be English with a Scottish accent is known as English. English is widely spoken in Scottland, often with a BBC accent (the 'standard' accent of the English, as much as there is a standard), often without. I suspect

Re: UTF-8N?

2000-06-20 Thread Peter_Constable
MDIn XML, this situation does not arise, since it specifies the exact useage of BO M, but it can arise in other circumstances. Another recent thread suggests that the situation with BOM and XML is, in fact, *not* clear. AL I understand there is no way to know whether you SHALL/SHOULD/MAY AL

Re: Characters for Programming Languages

2000-06-20 Thread brendan_murray
Jonathan Coxhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote DIVISION SIGN is within the first 256 characters (U+0097). Typo warning: U+0097 is END OF PROTECTED AREA control character. The DIVISION SIGN is at U+00F7 B=

RE: Unicode and Indic scripts on Windows (was: Re: FAQ : princip

2000-06-20 Thread Chris Pratley
Small note: All language flavours of Win2000 include the Indic support and input methods Chris describes, not just the one shipped in India. Chris Pratley Group Program Manager Microsoft Word -Original Message- From: Christopher John Fynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: June 18, 2000

Re: How to distinguish UTF-8 from Latin-* ?

2000-06-20 Thread Doug Ewell
Kenneth Whistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if I invented a hoity-toity company name with extra accents for "class", such as, L·DÏ·DÀ® Productions, Inc. and sent this to you in ISO 8859-1, as I am currently doing, your sanity check will fail in this case and identify this file as UTF-8,