On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
And I am sure Apple is hard at work on the Desert font and keyboard for Mac
OS 11? :-)
OS XI you mean? ;)
I have just made public a site with information about the world's
scripts and languages at
URL: http://www.ontopia.net/i18n/index.jsp
It's based on the topic map I posted about earlier, but now has a much
more user-friendly interface. It currently contains information on 128
scripts, but I
At 17:23 +0200 2001-10-10, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
If anyone knows of a mailing list devoted solely to scripts I'd be
happy to know about that as well.
See http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924
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Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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From: Lars Marius Garshol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
If anyone knows of a mailing list devoted solely to scripts I'd be
happy to know about that as well.
The Qalam list on yahoogroups might be of interest to you.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qalam
You may consider trying to classify the artificial scripts a bit more.
For example I *think* (I'm a bit rusty on my Elvish) that for Tengwar
would
be either Abjad (like Hebrew), or maybe Featural (like Hangul), and
Cirth
would be Alphabet (like Runic).
At 12:02 -0400 2001-10-10, Hietaniemi Jarkko (NRC/Boston) wrote:
You may consider trying to classify the artificial scripts a bit more.
For example I *think* (I'm a bit rusty on my Elvish) that for Tengwar
would be either Abjad (like Hebrew), or maybe Featural (like Hangul), and
Cirth would be
* Hietaniemi Jarkko
|
| You may consider trying to classify the artificial scripts a bit
| more. For example I *think* (I'm a bit rusty on my Elvish) that for
| Tengwar would be either Abjad (like Hebrew), or maybe Featural (like
| Hangul),
Tengwar has vowel diacritics that seem to follow
Tengwar has vowel diacritics that seem to follow temporal order, so it
may be that it should be an abugida rather than an alphasyllabary, but
it is not an abjad. I am not too sure of the distinction between
abugida and alphasyllabary, to be honest. Help on this would be
welcome.
Here's
Someone asked me for some actual Arabic words that show Arabic contextual forms. The following sample contains what I think are five occurences of heh in various positions. Can anyone verify that all of these are heh and that this combination of words (which I took from the What is Unicode
On 10/10/2001 02:13:03 PM Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote:
The words are all just fine.
Thanks.
I have to point out though that there are only 4 different shapes of heh
- not 5 - the first occurrence of heh in word # 2 and # 4 being the
same.
Yes, I knew that: five instance illustrating four
At 12:13 10/10/2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
I was wondering how should a standard compliant engine render
span lang=trfzwj;i/span
in a font that has the 'fi' ligature:
1) What do you mean? It is Turkish! fi should never be ligated in
Turkish...
2) But can't you see the ZWJ? I'm
At 12:26 10/10/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have to point out though that there are only 4 different shapes of heh
- not 5 - the first occurrence of heh in word # 2 and # 4 being the
same.
Yes, I knew that: five instance illustrating four shapes. I had picked out
four words that I
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:53:51PM +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
The Roadmaps to Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 have been maintained by the
ad-hoc committee on the Roadmap, which consists of Michael Everson,
Rick McGowan, and Ken Whistler. They were hosted on Michael Everson's
site, and this
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Jeff Guevin wrote:
They are all heh, and to the best of my knowledge, not bad words. Words 2
and 4 (RTL) mean, respectively: she and this ... I don't know what the
other two mean.
The third is from it. I don't know about the first.
roozbeh
Keld Simonsen,
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Subject: Re: Roadmaps
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:53:51PM
At 14:23 10/10/2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote on the Unicode list:
Right, but just make sure that ZWJ+ZWNJ+ZWJ (the worst thing in Unicode,
as I call it) also works on your Arabic fonts...
Presuming that the result here is that the final ZWJ should override the
ZWNJ, the easiest way to handle
At 14:27 10/10/2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
No, it's not a fifth form. It's just the initial form. Since Heh is too
similiar to the Arabic digit five, when refering to the letter, an initial
form is usually used. The glyph in at U+0647 in Unicode charts is just
that...
I know it is based on
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:25:17PM -0700, Carl W. Brown wrote:
I disagree with ISO's policy of charging for all of the public standards.
I would also rather that they be available for free. Some are.
I actually have some ideas to make all ISO IT-standards available for free,
with the
At 15:35 10/10/2001, Paul Nelson wrote:
Why would you do something like this? These are control characters and
should not be played with. The shaping engine should set the shapes of
the charaters on either side correctly. Since glyphs for control
characters are not normally displayed there is no
At 22:07 +0200 2001-10-10, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
I think the problems fro WG2 to refernce Unicode web pages are the
same as referencing Michael Everson's web site. If the roadmaps are
planning for the ISO standard, they should reside on the ISO web.
Immediate updates will be on the Unicode
At 14:25 -0700 2001-10-10, Carl W. Brown wrote:
I think the problems fro WG2 to refernce Unicode web pages are the
same as referencing Michael eversons web site. If the roadmaps are
planning for the ISO standard, they should reside on the ISO web.
The Roadmaps have always, and will
Keld,
In the case of ISO 639 there is an online, official, up-to-date registry
available at the Library of Congress site.
It is there because the same codes are used in the MARC standard. However
even though they seem to keep it up to date, it is an unofficial copy of the
standard. Other
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