Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-11 Thread James Kass
Marco Cimarosti wrote, Lots of people have solved the mystery: http://users.otenet.gr/~svoronan/phaistos.htm Exactly. No endorsement of either the Massey's efforts or Schomburg's work was intended. The Schomburg link was offered because of the site's superior graphics (and because the

Unification and space Question

2001-12-11 Thread Bill Kurmey
Since the list seems to be a bit slow on substantive issues, may I ask a few questions for clarification please. Q1 on unification of abstract characters. If abstract character x is unified with abstract character y, and the use of abstract character x is thereby deprecated or discouraged, am

Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Stefan Persson
Hi! A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing a virus. Has anyone else received the same virus? Stefan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Everson
At 10:18 -0800 2001-12-11, James Kass wrote: A standardized encoding for the symbols might do much to help researchers and aficionados in their deciphering attempts. But, since nothing is really known for certain about the symbols, there would be no way to assign properties to the characters,

Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-11 Thread Rick McGowan
Isn't accretion disk something that forms around a black hole?

Re: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Otto Stolz
Stefan Persson wrote: A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing a virus. Has anyone else received the same virus? Yes, and I sent him/her the letter quoted below. That letter was not delivered (due to mail quota, if I remeber cor- rectly), so I wrote to the

Undeciphered scripts (Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk))

2001-12-11 Thread Stefan Persson
- Original Message - From: James Kass [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marco Cimarosti [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Unicode List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 11 december 2001 19:18 Subject: Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk) I'm curious about the range in the Roadmap reserved for undeciphered scripts.

Re: Undeciphered scripts (Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk))

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Everson
At 19:50 +0100 2001-12-11, Stefan Persson wrote: And how would you be able to know if character x is a different character than character y, or just a glyph variant? The Phaistos repertoire anyway is pretty small. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

RE: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Stefan Persson wrote: A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing a virus. Has anyone else received the same virus? How can we know? How does it manifest itself? Is it an attached file or something like that? (I could't resist:-) And does it look like a half

Re: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Everson
At 20:03 +0100 2001-12-11, Otto Stolz wrote: Stefan Persson wrote: A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing a virus. Has anyone else received the same virus? Nope. I use a Macintosh. Cheerily, -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

Re: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread James Kass
Yes! I took a moment to advise Arjun that his system was infected with the BADTRANS virus, but he has not yet responded. Hopefully he is cleaning his system. There's been a rash of computer viruses rec'd here over the past few weeks, and Arjun's wasn't the first to purportedly come from a list

Lao Unicode Text Test Pages

2001-12-11 Thread James Kass
Are there any? (Besides charts or lists.) Best regards, James Kass.

Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

2001-12-11 Thread James Kass
Michael Everson wrote, Re: Phaistos, it's been thought that until a second document comes to light, there's not much to say. A bilingual would be nice. Didn't I say I was going to put Phaistos in the ConScript registry? I forgot. Cool. Is the BMP PUA big enough for all the

RE: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Hohberger, Clive
Stefan Persson wrote: A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing a virus. Has anyone else received the same virus? Michael Everson wrote in reponse: Nope. I use a Macintosh. [Hohberger, Clive] writes: And this I also why I use

Re: Lao Unicode Text Test Pages

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Leisher
James Are there any? (Besides charts or lists.) Best regards, Try http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/lao-test.html. It should look like the image at http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/cu/cu-lao.html. Another option is to write a converter for the Lao Light font encoding at http://www.laogate.com,

RE: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread Michael Everson
At 14:51 -0600 2001-12-11, Hohberger, Clive wrote: Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express are everybody's favorite virus target. That's because its the biggest and most symbolic target around, the World Trade Center of E-mail programs. To the hacker community, writing a virus for Eudora or for a

Re: Virus...

2001-12-11 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
At 18:34 2001-12-11 +0100, Stefan Persson wrote: Hi! A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing a virus. Has anyone else received the same virus? Yes, but I just deleted it. Adam --- http://EasyDomain.com/ Domains for less

Re: Unicode 3.2 BETA

2001-12-11 Thread Kenneth Whistler
The beta period for this version will be until January XXX, 2001. What Mark meant was until: January 25, 2002. --Ken

Unicode 3.2 BETA

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Davis
The next version of the Unicode Standard will be Version 3.2.0, due for release in March, 2002. The beta period for this version will be until January XXX, 2001. During this beta period, updated Unicode Character Database files are available for public comment. We strongly encourage implementers

The virus

2001-12-11 Thread Arjun Aggarwal
Hi Everybody I am extremely sorry for the virus story.I myself did not know that there was a virus lurking in my e-mails. It was actually a Worm by the name W32/BadTrans@MM which i just yesterday cleared from my computer. It was an embeded Worm with an extended .scr extension. This