At 19:05 -0700 2001-10-10, Carl W. Brown wrote:
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
Can I ask what Uniscribe would do if it encountered Roozbeh's ZWJ+ZWNJ+ZJW
character string? Perhaps it would help if Roozbeh explained why he sees
this as a problem.
According to my understanding:
Consider Lam+Alef. The rlig table should form a ligature.
The sequence Lam+ZWNJ+Alef would
John Hudson wrote:
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
Slashdot's running an article on Migrating Large Scale Applications from
ASCII to Unicode
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/11/0053233
roozbeh
Doug Ewell wrote...
Cyrillic was created as a better way to write Slavic languages, Russian in
particular. Shavian and Deseret were created as better ways to write
English. The former met with overwhelming success, the latter did not
It's usual to bind former and latter to the closest
In a message dated 2001-10-10 9:16:17 Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Even Tengwar and Cirth, although created to support languages introduced in
works of fiction, were invented according to some of the same principles that
guide the creation of so-called real scripts.
To be utterly pedantic about the whole thing, Tolkien
At 12:35 -0400 2001-10-11, Tom Emerson wrote:
To be utterly pedantic about the whole thing, Tolkien created his
fictional mythology around the languages spoken and written forms, not
vice versa.
In the beginning was the word
--
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography ***
At 01:41 10/11/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to my understanding:
Consider Lam+Alef. The rlig table should form a ligature.
The sequence Lam+ZWNJ+Alef would produce non-joined sequence (i.e., final
or isolate Lam followed by isolate Alef)
However, the sequence Lam+ZWJ+ZWNJ+ZJW+Alef
* Jarkko Hietaniemi
|
| 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).
* [EMAIL
* Michael Everson
|
| In the beginning was the word
And the words were
Eala Earendel engla beorhtast
ofer middangeard monnum sended.
--Lars M. :)
On 10 Oct 2001, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
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
Comments on the contents would be very welcome.
It seems like a single script is classified as belonging to
-Original Message-
From: Nardo, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Country Specific Code Pages
I'm looking for a comprehensive list of what IBM code pages are used in
each of the world's countries.
Can you provide
Can someone tell me how the Persian YEH (U+06CC) is dealt with in a CP1256
context? Has the official mapping changed from the following page?
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1256.htm
Or perhaps the 0xFF YEH BARREE is assumed to be Persian YEH in the Persian
locale.
I
Hangul is an alphabet. It organizes its letters into syllable
clusters, but it is an alphabet.
--
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarach; Baile Átha Cliath 2; Éire/Ireland
Telephone +353 86 807 9169 *** Fax +353 1 478 2597 (by
Look at their doc at:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QB3AQ501/F.0
Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote:
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From: Nardo, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Country Specific Code
Lars,
| For instance, Korean Hangul is not only featural but also alphabetic
| and alphasyllabaric.
How can this be? If a script uses diacritics out of temporal order to
indicate vowels it can't be an alphabet, and, similarly, if it does
not, how can it be an alphasyllabary?
I'm not
* Kenneth Whistler
|
| By type you are classifying scripts based on their functional
| organization.
|
| By category you are, loosely, classifying scripts based on their
| historic relationships.
Yes, and yes.
| I think you would be more successful if you separated out some of
| the
* Michael Everson
|
| Hangul is an alphabet. It organizes its letters into syllable
| clusters, but it is an alphabet.
This is what Kenneth Whistler also says, and I agree that it makes
sense. Peter T. Daniels, on the other hand, says that it is a featural
script[1], while Ross King says that
Lars,
My greater issue with your type classification has to do with
my disagreement about how you have defined some of the
types. I'm not disagreeing that there are functionally
definable types for scripts, and that it is useful to divide
up the scripts into those categories. But I disagree with
Lars,
|
| 2. Script B is a de novo design influenced strongly by Script A.
|
| 3. Script B borrowed formal and/or functional characteristics of
| Script A.
This is good advice. I already have an association type called
'derived from' that corresponds to your 1. I have been
Depends on what version of Windows you are on. Farsi is not officially
supported in all code points for cp1256. This one is supported in WinME,
Win2000, and WinXP. It maps to 0xED on cp1256 when it does map?
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
-
At 00:36 +0200 2001-10-12, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
1. Hangul is a featural script, which is means a script where
the shapes of the basic symbols are organized by phonetic
principles.
Yes.
2. Hangul is a featural script, and featural scripts are a subclass
of
At 16:35 -0700 2001-10-11, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
The kind of thing I am thinking about for 3 could be exemplified
by the modern Tai Le orthography. It is an evolutionary descendant
of earlier SE Asian Brahmi-based scripts maybe 800 years ago. But
the 1954 orthographic reform introduced the
Lars,
* Michael Everson
|
| Hangul is an alphabet. It organizes its letters into syllable
| clusters, but it is an alphabet.
This is what Kenneth Whistler also says, and I agree that it makes
sense. Peter T. Daniels, on the other hand, says that it is a featural
script[1], while Ross
Third form is a combination of the fourth form (from right to left) and
Kashida U+0640.
Vladimir Ivanov, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
Yes, of course that is what I meant. Sorry if anyone was confused.
In a message dated 2001-10-11 8:55:22 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Doug Ewell wrote...
Cyrillic was created as a better way to write Slavic languages, Russian
in
particular. Shavian and Deseret
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