At 18:34 2001-12-11 +0100, Stefan Persson wrote:
Hi!
A member of this list, Arjun Aggatwal, sent me a message containing a virus.
Has anyone else received the same virus?
Yes, but I just deleted it.
Adam
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At 16:02 2001-12-01 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(As a side note, this o-underbar form reminds me of the c-underbar which
is sometimes used in handwritten English to mean with. Does anyone know
the origin of this symbol? Is it possibly derived from the Latin word cum,
meaning with? Does it
At 14:00 2001-11-01 +0530, Arjun Aggarwal wrote:
I don't know why the person owning that domain name earlier made it out into
a pornographic site. I am sorry for not checking out the URL in advance.
You can ask him. His name is Charles Bukowski, his email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
His address:
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At 11:40 2001-10-25 -0400, Darren Morby wrote:
Thank you; this is the clarification I was seeking. Now when our
testers complain that this character looks wrong I am justified
in saying it's a typographical variant ... at least for these
letters.
You're welcome. I also have a page about Slovak
The first time I encountered the term caron was in the eighties when
studying the design of Adobe PostScript fonts. Not being a native English
speaker, I simply took it for the English word for this diacritic.
Now that you mention it, however, it does not appear in my copy of
Webster's New
At 11:35 2001-10-23 -0700, John Hudson wrote:
The apostrophe form (carka, I believe) is the preferred form for both the
upper and lowercase L. I have seen Slovak texts that use the regular
caron/hacek form for the uppercase L, but most display the apostrophe form.
I agree that a note would be
At 16:16 2001-10-23 -0500, David Starner wrote:
Why are these characters in Unicode as L/l with caron?
Because that's what they are.
Why aren't they just L/l + '?
Because that is something entirely different.
Adam
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At 10:17 2001-09-28 -0700, Yves Arrouye wrote:
Here's Arnold's chance to ask everyone to send him samples.
And many of them too, until he gets some with a dollar sign on it. None of
the banknotes I have in my wallet ($1, $10, and $20) show a dollar sign on
them! Or It's hidden somewhere, in
At 12:03 2001-07-13 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, the Windows world has no concept of a Last Resort font. It
would certainly seem to be a useful solution in cases like this.
Does a PostScript, Type 1, version of such a font exist for
download somewhere?
Adam
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:51:29AM +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
and Russians a dog. Food offers other tantalizing metaphors. Swedes
have borrowed the cinnamon bun ("kanelbulle"). Czechs have been
inspired by the rolled pickled herring ("zavinac") commonly eaten in
Prague's pubs. . .
Aha!
At 13:11 22-05-2001 -0700, Carl W. Brown wrote:
There is no easy solution.
Yes, there is, though it is probably beyond the scope of this list.
Nevertheless, there is a very simple solution. It needs to be done
on the OS level: Create metafonts.
To the application, the metafont looks just like
At 11:13 24-05-2001 -0700, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
There is nothing intrinscly wrong with the approach you are taking, but
TANSTAAFL applies here, and there IS no easy solution. There are indeed
solutions that will fool others into thinking its easy based on how easy it
seems to *them*. I
At 10:12 23-05-2001 -0700, Tom Gewecke wrote:
To me it seems basically administrative. One big font means I don't
have to make sure I have all the necessary (the definition of which
could change over time) members of the suite installed on my personal
machine or on every machine in the lab
At 08:13 23-03-2001 -0800, Carl W. Brown wrote:
Adam,
I think that the poll was not arrogant but a little fun to break the
tension.
I'd have probably been more amused had I not been logged off the Internet
at the time I was reading the message announcing the poll: I logged on,
loaded the
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:38:04PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aren't Serbian and Croatian the standard example of two "languages" that are
really the same language but are treated separately (a) for political reasons
and (b) because Cyrillic is used to write the former and Latin to write
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:39:09AM -0800, J%ORG KNAPPEN wrote:
Did you know, the Slovak was reconstructed in the 19th century
in order to make it more different from czech?
Not true. Written documents dating back to the Middle Ages clearly show
that Slovak has been virtually unchanged since
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:19:27AM -0800, Rick McGowan wrote:
If G. Adam wants to change the situation, it would be far more effective
to work toward encoding some of the important minority scripts and
increasing this list's traffic about important issues rather than
complaining about
At 12:11 26-02-2001 -0800, Rick McGowan wrote:
It's silly to even consider Klingon for Unicode or 10646.
Nah, it's not silly. It's offensive.
Back when I suggested that 'ch' be added to Unicode, I received
a ton of replies why that should not be. That despite the fact
in Slovak 'ch' has a
At 16:09 26-02-2001 -0800, David Starner wrote:
Bah. Life requires compromise. There are many people working on
Unicode, each with their own reasons. To stop working on Unicode
because someone else finds something a cool idea that you don't is
absurd, especially when that cool idea is going
At 12:07 20-02-2001 -0800, Tex Texin wrote:
Hi,
I am updating my information on Slovak collation.
See http://www.whizkidtech.net/ISO-8859-2/sk.html . Then email me
with any questions you might have.
Adam
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At 06:16 15-01-2001 -0800, Charles wrote:
Michael Everson wrote:
"The pronuncuation ['juni:ko:d] with [i:] or [i] instead of schwa irritates
me a lot. No one would pronounce "universe" with an [i]."
I beg to differ; "universe" is commonly pronounced with a short [i] in the
English Midlands.
At 14:11 15-01-2001 -0800, John Jenkins wrote:
On Monday, January 15, 2001, at 01:09 PM, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
Besides, the name of an international standard will be pronounced
internationally.
Why? I don't pronounce "Paris" the way the French do. Why should I
expect p
I would like to see any statistics tending to prove that pupils learning
more languages have worse results in maths or science than the unilingual
ones (let's say a comparison between HK pupils and the US ones ;-)).
There won't be. All evidence (and there's lots of it here in Ireland where
we
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:28:51PM -0800, David Starner wrote:
Is that your rule in all cases, to try and guess what they meant and do
that?
Not in all cases. But this particular Ister interpreter is designed
to run CGI scripts. When it comes to CGI languages, I have the philosophy
of graceful
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:55:15AM -0800, Michael Everson wrote:
We're working on this; actually I am writing a paper which deals with some
of the proposed solutions. That should be ready in a day or so. In the
meantime, can you give me an example of a Czech or Slovak word in which
ch is a
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 07:12:37AM -0800, Mark Davis wrote:
We know of specific situations that caused problems, as outlined in the
Corrigendum.
That does not justify forbidding it in other situations (ask the NRA :) ).
Adam
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:18:07AM -0800, Markus Scherer wrote:
you are free to write and use a non-conformant implementation. just be aware of what
that means... :-)
markus
I guess it means I'm a non-conformist. :)
I am currently working on software that translates mark-up made in one
mark-up
At 21:08 29-11-2000 -0800, Mark Davis wrote:
1. The Unicode Technical Committee has modified the definition of UTF-8 to
forbid conformant implementations from interpreting non-shortest forms for
BMP characters,
I find this silly. That creation of such forms would be forbidden I can see
and agree
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