Re: please expand re bidi algorithm

2000-12-04 Thread Darya Said-Akbari
Sorry Roozbeh, but Michael is right. That is the way how iranian newspapers use the '/' in numbers and currencies. So when you distinguish between Novice and Professional FARSI speaker you should first revolute the whole iranian writing class in not to use the '/' they are used to do. regards,

RE: please expand re bidi algorithm

2000-12-04 Thread Alistair Vining
Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: in x86 NN 6.0 (and Mozilla for all milestones 13-18), it will format the currency value or 3943.23 as 3,943/23. This is identical to the behavior on Windows 2000 and Arabic Win98. Just so I can follow, is this behaviour that's being discussed derived from /

Re: please expand re bidi algorithm

2000-12-04 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Indeed, that is the behavior being discussed. Me calling it the slash is more of a silly Americanism than anything else. :-) MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. http://www.trigeminal.com/ - Original Message - From: "Alistair Vining" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Unicode List"

RE: please expand re bidi algorithm

2000-12-04 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Alistair Vining wrote: Just so I can follow, is this behaviour that's being discussed derived from / parallel to the former British usage whereby 120/- was 120 shillings and no pence? I.e. is the mark a solidus? No. The /-like shape is because Persian digit shapes are

Re: Looking for a Bidi Editor with Java Sources

2000-12-04 Thread Eric Mader
Darya, Look at http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j This is an open source project which contains the kind of editor you're looking for. The editor classes are in com.ibm.richtext. There's a sample editor in com.ibm.richtext.demo.EditDemo. Eric Mader IBM Globalization Center of Competency,

Re: Transcriptions of Unicode

2000-12-04 Thread addison
Hi Mark, You're right, but I believe what Erik is saying is that you can get Japanese-looking characters to be *preferred* over Chinese-looking characters (where fonts drawn in both styles are available) by using a LANG attribute for a specific page or SPAN. This could increase the acceptance of

Re: Transcriptions of Unicode

2000-12-04 Thread Mark Davis
I agree, that is the right thing to do. What wasn't clear from his message is whether Mozilla picks a reasonable font if the language is not there. Since NN didn't do this in the past, I was wondering whether that has been improved. Mark - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

TR22

2000-12-04 Thread Mark Davis
As per the instructions of the Unicode Technical Committee, TR#22: Character Mapping Markup Language (CharMapML) has been advanced from draft TR to full TR. See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr22/ for more information. Note: The UTC intends to continue development this TR to also

[OT] Arabic script langs in 3.0 ; list?

2000-12-04 Thread Elaine Keown
Hello, Unicode 3.0 mentions 11 contemporary languages written in Arabic, most from Central Asia, none from Africa except Arabic---Berber is not mentioned. Is Arabic script no longer used south of the Sahara? Or does standard Arabic script easily cover relevant African languages? My usually

Re: [OT] Arabic script langs in 3.0 ; list?

2000-12-04 Thread tom
Unicode 3.0 mentions 11 contemporary languages written in Arabic, most from Central Asia, none from Africa except Arabic---Berber is not mentioned. Hausa is definitely African, in Northern Nigeria. As I understand it the use of Arabic script is somewhat limited compared to latin. But one

RE: Reading Unicode codes from a text file in JSP (Was RE:posting of unicode data to servlet)

2000-12-04 Thread Sujit Sunthankar
Wow! that was really useful. Got my JSP to work with the ResourceBundle class. But I have question re. Unicode. The tags in the tag files (*.properties files), I have japanese language coded in \u format. But if I code the same file in decimal format; \uDD, I get garbage in the browser. Any

Re: [OT] Arabic script langs in 3.0 ; list?

2000-12-04 Thread Majid Bhurgri
Add to the list Brahui (spoken in Pakistan, mostly in Baluchistan province), Darri, and Parkari (spoken in areas of Thar desert area bordering Pakistan and India). About 12 years ago I had made a font for Parkari language at the request of Christian missionaries who published translation of Bible

Re: Transcriptions of Unicode

2000-12-04 Thread Erik van der Poel
Mark Davis wrote: What wasn't clear from his message is whether Mozilla picks a reasonable font if the language is not there. Sorry about the lack of clarity. When there is no LANG attribute in the element (or in a parent element), Mozilla uses the document's charset as a fallback. Mozilla

Re: Transcriptions of Unicode

2000-12-04 Thread Erik van der Poel
Mark Davis wrote: What wasn't clear from his message is whether Mozilla picks a reasonable font if the language is not there. Sorry about the lack of clarity. When there is no LANG attribute in the element (or in a parent element), Mozilla uses the document's charset as a fallback. Mozilla

Re: Transcriptions of Unicode

2000-12-04 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
FWIW, IE does not do an absolutely stellar job here, either. Not all Unicode subranges have fonts automatically assigned, yet it is smart enough if you bring up the font dialog that lists the fonts which cover the subrange. Although there was no "lame" button when I pulled up the dialog,

Re: URDU fonts

2000-12-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
At 08:45 -0800 2000/12/1, MULTI-LINGUIST wrote: Is it possible to type Urdu in Arabic Windows for a website?? I have come to know that Arabic Windows does not support any TTF Urdu fonts. Is this true? I don't know. What code page are you using? If it is true, then is it possible to transfer

Re: URDU fonts

2000-12-04 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Edward Cherlin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] If your Urdu fonts are encoded according to a suitable Windows code page, Actually, there is no Windows code page that covers Urdu (unfortunately). There are over a dozen characters missing in 1256, for example. And thats the best of the lot! This