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Re: About the European MES-2 subset

2003-07-19 Thread Peter Kirk
On 18/07/2003 17:42, John Cowan wrote: Seeing hanzi, hangeul, etc. gets old when you a) can't read the text and b) suspect it is spam anyhow. But it can be useful to know whether what you are getting is hangul etc, or an Indian script, or some other script you don't know, or some symbols or

Re: I am not in India

2003-07-19 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 02:46, Doug Ewell wrote: I got something titled Re: Coptic II? (note leading space) from [EMAIL PROTECTED], which I am pretty sure is not Roozbeh Pournader. I definitely now *nothing* about Coptic but that's it's related to Greek to some degree. roozbeh

Re: I am not in India

2003-07-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 15:25 +0430 2003-07-19, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 02:46, Doug Ewell wrote: I got something titled Re: Coptic II? (note leading space) from [EMAIL PROTECTED], which I am pretty sure is not Roozbeh Pournader. I definitely now *nothing* about Coptic but that's it's related

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

2003-07-19 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Friday, July 18, 2003 10:18 PM, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I *prefer* Unicode to any subset thereof. Why such preference? Unicode does not define the charset (which are defined by ISO10646), but character properties and related algorithms, and (in cooperation with ISO10646)

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

2003-07-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 15:23 +0200 2003-07-19, Philippe Verdy wrote: Unicode does not define the charset (which are defined by ISO10646), That isn't true. They both define the same character set. (I will not use the term charset.) but character properties and related algorithms, and (in cooperation with ISO10646)

Re: About the European MES-2 subset

2003-07-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 16:41 -0700 2003-07-18, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote: I am pretty sure you have to be wrong here, Michael. Attend me: 1) API converts from Unicode to the wrong code page 2) API does some sort of work with the string 3) API tries to display the string How on earth could it from the Last

RE: I am not in India

2003-07-19 Thread Hohberger, Clive
I remember getting that same bogus E-mail, ostensibly from Roozbeh. Norton Antivirus stripped the virus from the E-mail and left me a message as to what the virus was. I long ago deleted both, so I don't remember which virus it was. Anybody running NAV or Norton Internet Security probably didn't

Re: I am not in India

2003-07-19 Thread Karljrgen Feuerherm
I long ago deleted both, so I don't remember which virus it was. W32.bugbear.something-or-other in my case. K

Re: I am not in India II

2003-07-19 Thread Karljürgen Feuerherm
As it happens, the same virus hit me again from another source yesterday. The odd thing was that when I first got it, it was *not* attached to a bogus message, but to a legitimate message from this list. Must attach itself in transit. K At 00:44 +0200 2003-07-19, Adam Twardoch wrote: From:

Last Resort Glyphs (was: About the European MES-2 subset)

2003-07-19 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Saturday, July 19, 2003 1:55 PM, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm. See http://developer.apple.com/fonts/LastResortFont/ where it shows glyphs for illegal characters (FFFE/ etc.) as well as undefined characters (valid code positions which have not been assigned). I thought

Re: Last Resort Glyphs (was: About the European MES-2 subset)

2003-07-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 20:24 +0200 2003-07-19, Philippe Verdy wrote: Isn't this page creating the idea for a specific block of script-representative glyphs, that could be mapped in plane 14 as special supplementary characters ? Good heavens, no. It's one thing for me to update this font regularly for Apple when

Re: Last Resort Glyphs (was: About the European MES-2 subset)

2003-07-19 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Saturday, July 19, 2003 9:15 PM, Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So fonts containing these glyphs could be designed to display these glyphs, in a way similar to the current assignment of control pictures. Um, that's what the Last Resort font does, outside of Unicode encoding

Re: Last Resort Glyphs (was: About the European MES-2 subset)

2003-07-19 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Apple's version of the Last Resort font is a (relatively) normal font. It just has a cmap that maps lots and lots of characters to the same glyph. :-) Deborah Goldsmith Manager, Fonts / Unicode Liaison Apple Computer, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Michael

Re: About the European MES-2 subset

2003-07-19 Thread John Cowan
Peter Kirk scripsit: But it can be useful to know whether what you are getting is hangul etc, or an Indian script, or some other script you don't know, or some symbols or mathematical codes, or else the result of some kind of encoding conversion error. Precisely where the Last Resort font

FW: Using UniCode International Charecters with Peachtree Accounting Program

2003-07-19 Thread Magda Danish \(Unicode\)
Hi, Can anyone on the list help me respond to this inquiry? Thanks Magda Date/Time:Sat Jul 19 16:38:16 EDT 2003 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback Using UniCode International Charecters with Peachtree

Re: Using UniCode International Charecters with Peachtree Accounting Program

2003-07-19 Thread Chris Jacobs
Using UniCode International Charecters with Peachtree Accounting Program Up to Peachtrre Version 2003 we were able to use Unicode for entering International Charecters, such as Arabic, in the description field of Invoices, Receipts, Purchase and Payments. We enter Arabic text in the