RE: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

My Greek textbook has acute, grave, and circumflex (called by those names), but I'm not sure what these correspond to in the Greek and Greek Extended blocks (there seem to be many more diacriticals than those). Is there an on-line guide somewhere? There are in fact other diacritics

Re: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

Here's a listing of the Unicode names (which are the modern Greek names, I believe) for diacriticals in the Extended Greek range and the analogous English *common* names of the Greek accents: acute = oxia grave = varia circumflex = perispomeni iota subscript = ypogegrammeni smooth breathing =

Re: What about musical notation ?

Hello, I think Mr. Garres means the western musical notation invented in the 1200s, which is very widely, if not universally, used today. Unicode 3.0 actually already has at least 2 older forms of musical notation in the main Hebrew block and somewhere in the Arabic block---they are signs for

RE: PDUTR #27: Unicode 3.1

On 01/22/2001 01:11:42 PM Kenneth Whistler wrote: I agree that Mark Davis' discussion covers many of the tricks to make things small *and* fast when dealing with Unicode tables. However, you can start out with relatively simple approaches and still get excellent performance in both memory and

Re: UNICODE application on IBM Mainframe

I would like to add one item to this discussion: Recently, someone from the IBM S/390 group told me that they had decided to store and use Unicode on S/390 as UTF-8/16/32. They will not use UTF-EBCDIC. I am not aware of anyone inside or outside of IBM who does use UTF-EBCDIC. (There is another

Re: PDUTR #27: Unicode 3.1

ICU stores most UnicodeData.txt properties in its uprops.dat, currently some 23kB (Unicode 3.0). This does not include character names, which are in unames.dat, currently some 83kB. There is currently a bug about wrong properties for the last 1k chars in plane 15 16 (I will try to fix this

Re: UNICODE application on IBM Mainframe

The IMS DB supports UTF-16. Actually, you can store anything you want in an IMS DB - if you want to provide all your own transaction management. IMS provides transaction management for UTF-16, just not through any 3270-based applications. Lisa Markus Scherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/23/2001

Re: PDUTR #27: Unicode 3.1

Thanks for the info. Peter On 01/23/2001 12:56:45 PM Markus Scherer wrote: ICU stores most UnicodeData.txt properties in its uprops.dat, currently some 23kB (Unicode 3.0). This does not include character names, which are in unames.dat, currently some 83kB. There is currently a bug about

Re: What about musical notation ?

Text on spanish and english Texto en español e inglés ** * VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL * ** Leí el código aprovado (pero aún no liberado), pero existe una deficiencia (a mi parecer) y sin menospreciar el excelente trabajo de Perry Roland: -Hablando

Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK)

Text on english and spanish Texto en inglés y español ** * VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL * ** Hacen falta los elementos químicos en el contexto de los caracteres chinos, debido a que no tienen el alfabeto para escribirlo, así que los requieren como una