Re: OT? Languages with letters that always take diacriticals

2004-03-20 Thread Charles Cox
Curtis Clark asked: Are there any languages that use letters with diacriticals, but *never* use the base letter without diacriticals? A made-up example to explain what made me think of it: Let's say a language has ö, to represent the same sound that it does in German, but not o, because the

Re: OT? Languages with letters that always take diacriticals

2004-03-20 Thread Thomas Widmann
Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Charles Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe Maltese uses c with a dot above but doesn't use the basic c. Does a maltese keyboard requires the user to enter two keystrokes instead of just pressing the C key? Or does it map a c with dot above

RE: New What is Unicode translation.

2004-03-20 Thread jameskass
Speaking of translations of What is Unicode?, I found this page: http://asuult.net/badaa/unicode.htm It is in Mongolian (Cyrillic). Best regards, James Kass Don, Offers to translate What is Unicode? to a particular language should be addressed to the Unicode office. This can be done

Re: Irish dotless I

2004-03-20 Thread Michael Everson
At 19:46 + 2004-03-19, Marion Gunn wrote: Ar 15:41 + 2004/03/18, scríobh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone who feels that past monetary contributions towards encoding efforts were made based on false pretenses may be able to seek legal redress... James Kass An admission of having made a seemingly

Re: Irish dotless I

2004-03-20 Thread Michael Everson
At 14:57 -0600 2004-03-19, Unspecified wrote: Quoting Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't think it affects Irish, unless you want to be dotless Marıon ın Irısh even when usıng a non-Gaelıc font. The consensus on the list seems to be that Irish should be written with a normal i character and

Re: Irish undotted i

2004-03-20 Thread Michael Everson
At 20:14 + 2004-03-19, Marion Gunn wrote: Scríobh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In Irish writing that uses the dot-convention, the dot represents lenition. Vowel phonemes are not liable to lenition, so it doesn't make any sense to have a dotted i, any more than a dotted a, e, o, or u. Exactly my

Re: [the_gdf] Re: GWebCaches versus Pong Caches and Connections

2004-03-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
If you want proofs, look at the LOTS of routers and switches that perform routing at the application level 3 (above IP), meaning that they maintain session state for TCP and some wellknown protocols in order to adapt the MTU and TCP window size dynamically between the various routing path. It's