RE: urban legends just won't go away!

2003-01-30 Thread Carl W. Brown
Barry, If you think that this is bad try 390 mainframe EBCDIC shift to upper case. You can shift up to 256 characters at a time with a single machine language instruction by ORing a line of spaces to your character field. Now that is bit flipping and is still heavily used. Carl -Original

RE: Suggestions in Unicode Indic FAQ

2003-01-30 Thread Kent Karlsson
I don't know where you find support for that position in that text. Can you please quote? There are no invalid base consonants for any dependent vowel (for Indic scripts; similarly for any other script). Actually, there is a mention of displaying combining marks on dotted circles:

RE: Suggestions in Unicode Indic FAQ

2003-01-30 Thread Kent Karlsson
Let me give a proper example this time. Consider a Vowel Sign E [U+0947] appearing after any non-consonant character. This sign is generally attached to the consonants. It has zero advance width with negative left side bearing in the font. Ok. Clearly, since in this case the sign is not

RE: Suggestions in Unicode Indic FAQ

2003-01-30 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Keyur Shroff wrote: However, I totally agree with Kent that this funny rendering is *not* a requirement of the Unicode standard, as Keyur Shroff seems to suggest. It is just an example of many several methods [that] are available to deal with strange sequences. A sequence should

RE: Suggestions in Unicode Indic FAQ

2003-01-30 Thread John Hudson
At 01:20 AM 1/30/2003, Marco Cimarosti wrote: However, I totally agree with Kent that this funny rendering is *not* a requirement of the Unicode standard, as Keyur Shroff seems to suggest. It is just an example of many several methods [that] are available to deal with strange sequences.

RE: Suggestions in Unicode Indic FAQ

2003-01-30 Thread jameskass
. Kent Karlsson wrote, I add that this is a good way of displaying a combining mark that has no base character, i.e. one occurring at the begin of a line or paragraph. No, those should be displayed *as if* preceded by a SPACE (TUS 3.0 page 121). So it says. But, the 'space method' could

vietnamese font

2003-01-30 Thread Paul Hastings
besides ms arial would anybody like to recommend a font suitable for vietnamese? thanks. -- Paul Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member Team Macromedia (ColdFusion)

Re[2]: ISO 639 arg - Esperanto

2003-01-30 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2003.01.22, 17:04, Markus Scherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If only Ferran used real characters (car) instead of transliterations (cxar) - oddly intermixed with using real é in aragonés :-} Sorry for being off-topic. Not too off-topic, IMHO, as it concerns the still uncomplete penetration

Re: Indic Devanagari Query

2003-01-30 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2003.01.29, 05:52, Aditya Gokhale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. In Marathi and Sanskrit language two characters glyphs of 'la' and 'sha' are represented differently as shown in the image below - (First glyph is 'la' and second one is 'sha') as compared to Hindi where these character glyphs

Fwd: News: W3C home page genuinely served as UTF-8

2003-01-30 Thread Asmus Freytag
This came in recently: From: Martin Duerst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: News: W3C home page genuinely served as UTF-8 This is just a very small news item that I wanted to share: (probably too little too late, but a step in the right direction anyway) Since a few minutes, the W3C home page at

Re: urban legends just won't go away!

2003-01-30 Thread Kenneth Whistler
This is a simple example demonstrating my own personal method. //to upper case public char upper(int c) { return (char)((c = 97 c =122) ? VisitSewers(c) : c); } static int VisitSewers(int c) { return AlligatorByte(c); } static int AlligatorByte(int c) { // Remove

Re: vietnamese font

2003-01-30 Thread Doug Ewell
Paul Hastings paul at tei dot or dot th wrote: besides ms arial would anybody like to recommend a font suitable for vietnamese? assume platform=Windows Plain old Arial actually isn't your best choice, because it displays the circumflex-plus-grave and circumflex-plus-acute combinations