RE: Character identities

2002-10-25 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Peter Constable wrote: then *any* font having a unicode cmap is a Unicode font. No, not if the glyps (for the supported characters) are inappropriate for the characters given. Kent is quite right here. There are a *lot* of fonts out there with Unicode cmaps that do not at all conform

Re: Character identities

2002-10-25 Thread Stefan Persson
- Original Message - From: Marco Cimarosti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:42 AM Subject: RE: Character identities Of course, this only applies German. And Swedish. Stefan

RE: Character identities

2002-10-25 Thread Kent Karlsson
... Like it or not, superscript e *is* the same diacritic that later become ¨, so there is absolutely no violation of the Unicode standard. Of course, this only applies German. Font makers, please do not meddle with the authors intent (as reflected in the text of the document!). Just as it

Re: Character identities

2002-10-25 Thread Otto Stolz
To all contributors to this thread: Please cease cc-ing [EMAIL PROTECTED]! The CC was meant for my remark on fuzzy search wrt. long-s and round-s. Google are certainly not interested in any and all other turns this thread has taken, or may take later. David J. Perry had written: An OpenType

RE: need open source tools to convert indic font encoding into ISCII or Unicode

2002-10-25 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Frank Tang wrote: I am looking for open source tool (C / C++ / Perl or Java) to convert between (UTF-8/UTF-16 or ISCII) and differnt Indict font encoding. Please let me know if you know anything available. Language: C, [...] Convert from A to / from B where A mean UTF-8

Superscript e (was: Character identities)

2002-10-25 Thread Otto Stolz
Marco Cimarosti (amongst others, using the same term) wrote: superscript e *is* the same diacritic that later become ¨ The term superscript e does not aptly describe the situation. Rather, the German a-Umlaut is derived from U+0061 U+0364 (LATIN SMALL CHARACTER A + COMBINING LATIN SMALL

Re: The character @ and gender studies...

2002-10-25 Thread Michael Everson
At 05:31 -0700 2002-10-25, Ramiro Espinoza wrote: In some latin countries the people involved in gender studies are using the character to mean a/o. Example: Tods nosotrs (instead of todos nosotros -All of us-). They try to give a male and female approach to the spanish generic words. That's

RE: Character identities

2002-10-25 Thread Marc Wilhelm Küster
At 14:04 25.10.2002 +0200, Kent Karlsson wrote: Font makers, please do not meddle with the authors intent (as reflected in the text of the document!). Just as it is inappropriate for font makers to use an ø glyph for ö (they are the same, just slightly different derivations from o^e), it is just

Re: The character @ and gender studies...

2002-10-25 Thread Barry Caplan
Yes - imagine the burden on open relay mailers when they try to blast spam to ill formed email addresses they harvested! Hey wait - maybe this is a *good* idea! Barry www.i18n.com At 02:12 PM 10/25/2002 +0100, Michael Everson wrote: At 05:31 -0700 2002-10-25, Ramiro Espinoza wrote: In some

RE: Character identities

2002-10-25 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Marc Wilhelm Küster wrote: At 14:04 25.10.2002 +0200, Kent Karlsson wrote: Font makers, please do not meddle with the authors intent (as reflected in the text of the document!). Just as it is inappropriate for font makers to use an ø glyph for ö (they are the same, just slightly different

FW: Toned Greek Capital Vocals

2002-10-25 Thread Magda Danish (Unicode)
-Original Message- Date/Time:Fri Oct 25 08:12:22 EDT 2002 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback Most browsers do not support Toned Greek Capital Vocals and I can't find this code in Uni-Coding. If you can read greek the letters

RE: Character identities

2002-10-25 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Kent Karlsson wrote: ... Like it or not, superscript e *is* the same diacritic that later become ¨, so there is absolutely no violation of the Unicode standard. Of course, this only applies German. Font makers, please do not meddle with the authors intent (as reflected in the text of

hacked fonts in MS-Windows: rev. solidus vs Yen/Won(was..RE: Characteridentities)

2002-10-25 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote: 1) Assigning arbitrary glyphs to some Unicode characters. E.g., assigning the $ character to long S; the ASCII letters to Greek letters; the whole Latin-1 range to Devanagari characters, etc. There are several Japanese and Korean fonts with

Re: Sarati

2002-10-25 Thread Michael Everson
At 00:30 -0400 2002-10-25, Robert wrote: Another language alphabetic script that reads left-to-right vertically from top-to-bottom is Sarati, another of the fantasy scripts from the late J. R. R. Tolkien's *Lord Of The Rings* book series. Perhaps another of the scripts J.R.R. Tolkien devised

Re: Toned Greek Capital Vocals

2002-10-25 Thread Stefan Persson
- Original Message - From: Magda Danish (Unicode) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 6:54 PM Subject: FW: Toned Greek Capital Vocals -Original Message- Date/Time:Fri Oct 25 08:12:22 EDT 2002 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report

Re: Toned Greek Capital Vocals

2002-10-25 Thread Doug Ewell
evlagoutaris at hotmail dot com wrote: Most browsers do not support Toned Greek Capital Vocals and I can't find this code in Uni-Coding. If you can read greek the letters I'm reffered to are: Έ , Ά , Ύ , Ό , Ώ , Ί and Ή . Is there a code that I can't find? But you did provide Unicode code

Java Unicode support

2002-10-25 Thread Carl W. Brown
What level of Unicode does Java currently fully support? Carl

Re: Apple news!

2002-10-25 Thread Yung-Fong Tang
Michael Everson wrote: Interesting news. A P P L ED E V E L O P E RC O N N E C T I O N 1 N E W S Issue 318September 13, 2002 [3] Mac OS X-Only Booting For 2003 Starting in January 2003, all new Mac models will only boot into Mac

Re: hacked fonts in MS-Windows: rev. solidus vs Yen/Won(was..RE: Character identities)

2002-10-25 Thread Doug Ewell
Jungshik Shin jshin at mailaps dot org wrote: ... MS-Windows has to provide distinct ways to enter 'reverse solidus' and 'Yen/Won' sign (both full-width and half-width) in Japanese and Korean IMEs. ... Good points, well stated. To make matters worse, the keyboard references at Microsoft's

ANN: Sadiss 1.0

2002-10-25 Thread abass alamnehe
application: Sadiss 1.0, Unicode text editor for Ethiopic platform: Java 1.4.0 or above source code: included dev-language: Java home page: http://www.senamirmir.com/projects/ download (zip): http://www.senamirmir.com/download/sadiss1-0.zip download (exe):

Call for Papers - 2nd notice - Draft 1

2002-10-25 Thread Lisa Moore
Call for Papers! Twenty-third Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC23) Unicode, Internationalization, the Web: The Global Connection Week of March 24-28, 2003 Prague, Czech Republic Send in your submission now!

DUTR #29: Text Boundaries

2002-10-25 Thread Mark Davis
 There is a UTC meeting on November 5. If there is any public feedback on text boundary issues fromhttp://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr29/ (or the related http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr14/)that feedback should be in by next Thursday at the latest. This will be one of the last

FYI: Last call WDs: css3-text, css3-ruby

2002-10-25 Thread Mark Davis
The following last-call drafts of CSS3 modules: Text and Ruby have been posted. They contain quite a bit of non-western typography, so will be of interest to people on this list. The preferred place for comments is the public mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] css3-ruby CSS3 module: Ruby