Char Set Detector

2003-07-17 Thread Yogesh Kumar Ahuja
Hi, Can any body give me the path/url to get a Char set Detector. which can detect the char set's encoding scheme ..atleast for shift_jis and big5. I downloaded from mozilla and build it. It's working fine for UTF8 but failing for shift_jis and big5 in some cases. I'm working on HP unix. If any

RE: missing .GIF's for ideographs on unicode.org?

2003-07-17 Thread Ostermueller, Erik
Richard wrote: Erik, I think you are correct. The link should be like so: http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/refglyph?24-2 I'm guessing this just hasn't been implemented yet. I swear I've seen the glyph on this page before. When I looked at it in the PDF I

Re: [Private Use Area] Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing

2003-07-17 Thread William Overington
Michael Everson raises some interesting points. William. If CENELEC wishes to standardize a set of icons, they will do so. If they have a need to interchange data using those icons, they will (if they are wise) come to us an ask to encode them. If they want to use the Private Use Area before

Re: missing .GIF's for ideographs on unicode.org?

2003-07-17 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 12:00 AM, Richard Cook wrote: I'm guessing this just hasn't been implemented yet. You are guessing correctly. Once some of the dust settles from my day job, I expect I can get to this. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Private Use Area] Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing

2003-07-17 Thread Kenneth Whistler
William spilled another ocean of digital ink. Found bobbing in that ocean was the comment: Roozbeh and I assigned two unencoded characters for Afghanistan to the PUA, and we encourage implementors to use them until such time as the characters are encoded. Yes. ... Now that at least one of

Re: [Private Use Area] Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Everson
At 17:01 +0100 2003-07-17, William Overington wrote: Michael Everson raises some interesting points. William. If CENELEC wishes to standardize a set of icons, they will do so. If they have a need to interchange data using those icons, they will (if they are wise) come to us an ask to encode

Re: Article on Unicode in Globalization Insider

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:01:30PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.lisa.org/archive_domain/newsletters/2003/ 3.2/lommel_unicode.html This link seems to be broken. I get a message *Our apologies* *The page you requested is not available.* I guess you just have to combine the

Re: missing .GIF's for ideographs on unicode.org?

2003-07-17 Thread Rick McGowan
Ostermueller, Erik wrote: At unicode.org, when I click this link, http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=2 I'm expecting to see a little square GIF that displays U+2. Instead, I see N/A. This has now been fixed. Thank you for pointing out the error. The code was

Re: About the European MES-2 subset (was: PUA Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing)

2003-07-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:23 PM, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17:01 +0100 2003-07-17, William Overington wrote: Now, I have never heard of the MES-2 whatever that is. However, I do not have deep knowledge of the various standards which exist. Could you possibly say some

Re: About the European MES-2 subset (was: PUA Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing)

2003-07-17 Thread Kenneth Whistler
282 MES-2 is specified by the following ranges of code positions as indicated for each row... Philippe Verdy asked: As most of these characters are canonically decomposable, shouldn't this list include also the decomposed characters? Why is row 03 so resticted? Shouldn't it include

Re: About the European MES-2 subset (was: PUA Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing)

2003-07-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Friday, July 18, 2003 2:18 AM, Kenneth Whistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MES-2 was not designed by the UTC, nor did it take any of these considerations into account. It is not really an appropriate construct for the Unicode Standard. A more meaningful way to think of it is: if you want to

Putting Unicode to Work

2003-07-17 Thread djinn
Although some list members may already be aware of these pages, because there are still very few web sites today that present text using a variety of Unicode ranges for purposes other than 'display testing', I thought the entire list should know about the Unicode pages on the Hot Peach