Re: [ANN] World Address Project starts and relies on Unicode heavily

2002-10-08 Thread Doug Ewell
Marco Cimarosti marco dot cimarosti at essetre dot it wrote: I am really quite sick of those forms that, after I have specified my country is Italy, force me to fill in my state! I usually, have to select Michigan, which has the same acronym (MI) as the province of Milan. I hope I'll never

RE: glyph selection for Unicode in browsers

2002-10-08 Thread Martin Duerst
At 13:41 02/10/02 +0900, Martin Duerst wrote: I'm not sure this is possible with Apache, maybe there is a need for a RemoveCharset directive similar to RemoveType (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html#removetype). Or maybe there is some other way to get the same result. If a new

RE: InDesign

2002-10-08 Thread Alan Wood
António MARTINS-Tuválkin wrote: I just installed inDesign 1.5 and noticed that it doesnt support Unicode characters (Pasting from W2k's CharMap and using Keyman). On the Type menu, you will find Select Character ... This allows you to select any character from a Unicode font (even on Mac OS

RE: ISO 8859-11 (Thai) cross-mapping table

2002-10-08 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Kenneth Whistler wrote: Elliotte Harold asked: The Unicode data files at http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/ do not include a mapping for ISO-8859-11, Thai. Is there any particular reason for this? Just that nobody got around to submitting and posting one. Since

RE: InDesign

2002-10-08 Thread Michael Everson
At 09:43 +0100 2002-10-08, Alan Wood wrote: António MARTINS-Tuválkin wrote: I just installed inDesign 1.5 and noticed that it doesnt support Unicode characters (Pasting from W2k's CharMap and using Keyman). On the Type menu, you will find Select Character ... Excellent! Under OS X, it's

Re: ISO 8859-11 (Thai) cross-mapping table

2002-10-08 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
At 6:51 AM -0400 10/8/02, John Cowan wrote: Marco Cimarosti scripsit: Talking about the format of mapping tables, I always wondered why not using ranges. In the case of ISO 8859-11, the table would become as compact as three lines: In XOM I currently do a quick initial test with if for

Re: ISO 8859-11 (Thai) cross-mapping table

2002-10-08 Thread John Cowan
Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit: The Verifier class has a similar issue, though there it's a case of determining whether or not any given character is a legal XML character/name character/name-start character/ etc. This is done with a trick introduced in JDOM where the code looks like

Re: ISO 8859-11 (Thai) cross-mapping table

2002-10-08 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
At 8:44 AM -0400 10/8/02, John Cowan wrote: The underlying data structure here is called a range table, and is a list of ranges in codepoint order, expressed thus: start of first range end of first range + 1 start of second range end of second range + 1 etc. etc.

RE: ISO 8859-11 (Thai) cross-mapping table

2002-10-08 Thread Marco Cimarosti
John Aurelio Cowan wrote:) Marco Cimarosti scripsit: Talking about the format of mapping tables, I always wondered why not using ranges. In the case of ISO 8859-11, the table would become as compact as three lines: Well, that wins for 8859-1 and 8859-11 and ISCII-88, where Unicode

Re: ISO 8859-11 (Thai) cross-mapping table

2002-10-08 Thread John Cowan
Marco Cimarosti scripsit: All 8859 tables would be more succint. Well, I checked the 8859-2 mapping table, and the only contiguous ranges are of length 2, namely 0xA7-0xA8, 0xC1-0xC2, 0xCD-0xCE, 0xD3-0xD4, 0xD6-0xD7, 0xDC-0xDD, 0xE1-0xE2, 0xF3-0xF4, 0xF6-0xF7, 0xFC-0xFD. All of these are

RE: InDesign

2002-10-08 Thread John Hudson
At 01:43 AM 08-10-02, Alan Wood wrote: On the Type menu, you will find Select Character ... This allows you to select any character from a Unicode font (even on Mac OS 9), but it does not show the Unicode range names, which makes it VERY difficult to find the character you want. This is

Re: ISO 8859-11 (Thai) cross-mapping table

2002-10-08 Thread Mark Davis
We use this structure in ICU (in UnicodeSet). For a high-level explanation, see my site (www.macchiato.com), Bits of Unicode. As to the binary search, we have used in various contexts before a completely unrolled binary loop, following John Bentley's formulation. It is quite an interesting

Re: ISO 8859-11 (Thai) cross-mapping table

2002-10-08 Thread John Cowan
Mark Davis scripsit: We use this structure in ICU (in UnicodeSet). For a high-level explanation, see my site (www.macchiato.com), Bits of Unicode. Inversion lists, yes. (Different terminology, same thing). As to the binary search, we have used in various contexts before a completely

Re: InDesign

2002-10-08 Thread Patrick Andries
- Message d'origine - De : John Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is actually an insert *glyph* function (and is called such in InDesign 2.0). It exposes the entire glyph repertoire of the font, including unencoded variant glyphs, ligatures etc. Glyphs are ordered in the pallette by

Re: InDesign

2002-10-08 Thread John Hudson
At 10:25 AM 08-10-02, Patrick Andries wrote: Just out of interest, does InDesign ever display the names of Unicode characters ? Unicode names, no; Unicode values, yes. In InDesign 2.x, if you hover the cursor over an encoded glyph in the Insert Glyphs pallette, it will report the Unicode

Re: [Graphite-devl] 35 Indic fonts now available under GPL

2002-10-08 Thread Peter_Constable
On 10/08/2002 03:05:50 PM YTang0648 wrote: I quickly look at it. It seems TrueType font use Symbol encoding. Is there any documentation about how to convert the Unicode to the glyph code? Is there any public documentation about that glyph set or glyph id used in these fonts? Not that I know