On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:34:04AM -0800, Barry Caplan wrote:
This is pretty interesting. Is it art, is it a toy? Make your own TT
fonts created by a genetic algorithm!
http://alphabet.tmema.org/
See also:
http://www.theory.org/artprojects/alphabetsoup/
which generates new letters based on
CC The word pentacle doesn't have the power of the pentacle glyph, and yet I
CC don't see that in Unicode. (I won't accept that it is a glyph variant of
CC U+2606.)
humor How about a glyph variant of U+2721? ;-) /humor
Philippmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Everson wrote:
I would be glad to learn any information about what is
really occuring
in practice in each of the euro-using countries with regards to
formatting the currency.
So would I, so I can update my page at
http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/formats.html
Currently
Asmus Freytag wrote:
There's a difference between house numbers and street
addresses. House
numbers, which number every house in a city or village
starting at 1 are
the older system and I have been in places where these house
numbers have
been maintained (although perhaps no longer
At 02:32 3/1/2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
You have probably been in Venice... On each island in the town, houses are
numbered starting from 1. That's why the house number in a Venetian
addresses is often 4 digits, and why there is no reference to the usual
Italian words for road, square, etc.
Michael Everson had written:
When is [the Apocalypse] scheduled to occur?
Tex Texin wrote:
And how do you write it in ISO 8601 format?
It is out of scope for ISO 8601;
you will have to resort to RFC 2550,
cf http://wwwfaqsorg/rfcs/rfc2550html
or http://rfcsunsitedk/rfc/rfc2550html
Best
Curtis Clark had written:
The word pentacle doesn't have the power of the pentacle glyph, and yet I
don't see that in Unicode (I won't accept that it is a glyph variant of
U+2606)
Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
humor How about a glyph variant of U+2721? ;-)
No, it must be U+209B, of course
Marco Cimarosti wrote:
On my experience, however, the current practice of having one monetary
settings record for each locale is completely broken This practice
assumes that, eg, Italians only need amounts in liras or euros
At home, where I use MS Works (451 IIRC) and Windows 95 (with Y2K
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:26:42 +0100 , Marco Cimarosti wrote:
French francs amounts were often
written with a single decimal (because the smallest coin was 10 cents)
No, the 5 centime coin remained in use (until the recent demise of the
Franc, of course) and in any case it was very rare to see
John Cowan wrote:
[...] House numbers in North America (and in France
also, it seems) have a few bits of meaning: the least-significant
(numeric) bit tells you which side of the street the house is on,
[...]
It is the same in Italy. I was quite surprised to know that also in other
countries
Friday, March 1, 2002
Would I be correct in assuming that the Euro is also now the currency in
non-European dependencies such as the Netherlands Antilles, French
Polynesia, etc.? Apologies in advance if either of these is now
independent.
Marco Cimarosti wrote:
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John Cowan wrote:
[...] House numbers in North America (and in Francealso, it seems) have a few bits of meaning: the least-significant(numeric) bit tells you which side of the street the house is on,[...]
At 08:55 -0500 2002-03-01, James E. Agenbroad wrote:
Friday, March 1, 2002
Would I be correct in assuming that the Euro is also now the currency in
non-European dependencies such as the Netherlands Antilles, French
Polynesia, etc.? Apologies in
What's Unicode? Yesterday night I couldn't sleep, so I read a few hundreds
postings on Italian Usenet containing the word UNICODE, seeking the answer
to this question.
Italian users say that Unicode is:
1) A system to show the euro symbol in e-mails;
2) A better system than UTF-8 to
Otto Stolz wrote:
At home, where I use MS Works (451 IIRC) and Windows 95 (with Y2K and
Euro patches) the new year brought a bad surprise (or should I say:
revealed a severe design error in MS Works?):
When I changed, in the Windows system locale, the monetary setting to
Euros, all
John Cowan had written:
[] House numbers[]: the least-significant
(numeric) bit tells you which side of the street the house is on,
Same here (southern Germany) Odd numbers on the left, even numbers
on the right hand, when you look up the street (from small to
larger numbers)
Marco
The thing MS Works did not do is something that MS Access *did* do, starting
with Access 2.0. They store the information about the locale settings along
with the decision to make something a currency field, so that if the locale
changes the monetary value stays the same.
It was more work, but it
Marco Cimarosti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On my experience, however, the current practice of having one
monetary
settings record for each locale is completely broken. This practice
assumes
that, e.g., Italians only need amounts in liras or euros. But it is
clear
that foreign currencies are
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Patrick Andries wrote:
Marco Cimarosti wrote:
John Cowan wrote:
[...] House numbers in North America (and in France
also, it seems) have a few bits of meaning: the least-significant
(numeric) bit tells you which side of the street the house is on,
[...]
It
I was asked this and wasn't entirely sure about the answer, or even sure
if I knew of a doc in which it was discussed. (Note: this is being asked
in relation to Devanagari.)
quote
1. Are ZWJ and ZWNJ invisible in terms of searching, sorting, etc? In
other
words, the sequence consonant virama
Lars Kristan wrote:
Of course if it was not that way and you would for some
reason decide to use
DEM instead of DM (or Lit instead of L), then you would
complain about the
design flaw because your old entries would not be updated
then Otto Stolz wrote:
Oh no, I was complaining that
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:49:27AM -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
Locale systems that force you to pick one immutable set of conventions
for a given country are broken in general I remember having to tell
MS-DOS that I was in South Africa or someplace, just to get my directory
listing the way I
Otto Stolz wrote:
Same here (southern Germany). Odd numbers on the left, even numbers
on the right hand, when you look up the street (from small to
larger numbers).
(Going off the deep end today, be warned!)
This rule does not hold here. In Manhattan, for example,
streets run both east
Peter,
I was asked this and wasn't entirely sure about the answer, or even sure
if I knew of a doc in which it was discussed (Note: this is being asked
in relation to Devanagari)
quote
1 Are ZWJ and ZWNJ invisible in terms of searching, sorting, etc? In
other
words, the sequence
listing the way I wanted it. *nix systems that start with fr_FR and
then allow you to define fr_FR-EURO or something really aren't much
better; what if I want to deviate from the pre-defined locale in four or
five ways instead of just one?
They do not let you deviate from a pre-defined
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Doug Ewell wrote:
Locale systems that force you to pick one immutable set of conventions
for a given country are broken in general I remember having to tell
MS-DOS that I was in South Africa or someplace, just to get my directory
listing the way I wanted it *nix systems
This question is, by definition, off-topic; but I'm asking it because the members of
this list are just the sort of people who might know the answer and because this is
something that could all too soon fade from the collective memory, as it has from mine
Polish has a useful collection of
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:26:42 +0100 , Marco Cimarosti wrote:
French francs amounts were often
written with a single decimal (because the smallest coin was 10 cents)
No, the 5 centime coin remained in use (until the recent demise of the
Franc, of course) and in any case it was very rare to
My page is in Unicode, but does not mention Unicode except in the headers,
and the headers are invisible unless you choose view source in your
browser
My company service has been in UTF-8 since I joined in 1998 See
http://wwwrealnamescom/; Another good example, but it's much more recent:
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