Re: Bug?: Not able to type పయోఽంబు.... (Telugu)

2013-05-11 Thread James Cloos
to determine that; I first have to learn the Telugu character names so that I know what I'm looking for. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: Bug?: Not able to type పయోఽంబు.... (Telugu)

2013-05-10 Thread James Cloos
KKC == Kiran Kumar Chava chavaki...@gmail.com writes: KKC ।।ఓం పయోఽంబువచ్చేత్ తత్రాపి ఓం।। 3 Interesting. And surprising. Emacs (using m17n's libotf and m17n-lib) gets that right, but pango and harfbuzz add the dotted circle. (All tested using the same font Emacs chose.) -JimC -- James

Re: Bug?: Not able to type పయోఽంబు.... (Telugu)

2013-05-10 Thread James Cloos
-JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: Rendering Raised FULL STOP between Digits

2013-03-09 Thread James Cloos
for a decimal point, given that we Yanks do the exact opposite (at least in handwriting). Exactly akin to '' vs ''. I wonder what other typographic or handwriting traditions also are exactly opposite on the two sides of the pond? -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D

Re: Rendering Raised FULL STOP between Digits

2013-03-09 Thread James Cloos
juxtaposition. That is, when teaching arithmetic × was typical, but when teaching elementary algebra or higher math · was used. Digitalization and the prevalence of * in programming languages may, however, have had an impact on that tendency in the last mumble-mumble decades. ☺ -JimC -- James Cloos cl

Re: Long-term archiving of electronic text documents

2013-01-28 Thread James Cloos
://parchive.sourceforge.net/ and a windows implementation thereof at http://www.quickpar.org.uk/ for a tool for FEC. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: OT: Need howto info for typing accented chars on US keyboard in Linux

2013-01-12 Thread James Cloos
://createspace.com/3758226 -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: locale-aware string comparisons

2013-01-01 Thread James Cloos
that I mentioned C only as a pseudocode, akin to SQL: LOWER(x) LIKE LOWER(y) OR UPPER(x) LIKE UPPER(y) Would that cover all of the outliers? -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

locale-aware string comparisons

2012-12-29 Thread James Cloos
, unicode and cldr suite of standards have to say on the matter. Thanks, -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: problem with combining diacritcs in HTML5

2012-10-07 Thread James Cloos
. Or not. :^/ But it is a good place to start. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: U+25CA LOZENGE - why is it in the Mac OS Roman character set (and therefore widespread in current fonts)?

2012-08-15 Thread James Cloos
roman, adobe symbol, et al. goog’ing for « adding machine subtotal symbol » confirms, but hasn’t supplied a reference to where that use orriginated. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: Hangul: Middle Korean

2012-04-19 Thread James Cloos
, in the last sylable, the PANSIOS is above the ARAEA which is above the RIEUL of the RIEUL-HIEUH. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: ligature usage - WAS: How do we find out what assigned code points aren't normally used in text?

2011-09-12 Thread James Cloos
the opentype/graphite/whatever features for DE text rather than for generic latin (script) text. Failing that it would be useful to guess based on word lists, provided of course that doing do does not kill performance. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: Application that displays CJK text in Normalization Form D

2010-11-14 Thread James Cloos
of the choseong and jungseong chars, but like PanGo they are not as legible as the precomposed syllables. Even selection selects a syllable at a time. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: Fwd: Re: Samogitian E with dot above and macron

2010-10-27 Thread James Cloos
(to my greatest disappointment). Xkb doesn't, but the compose table support in libX11 does. (As does the non-libX11 compose table support in Gnome.) You can use a dummy id in the xkb table and a compose entry to convert that to the desired string. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com

Re: Fwd: Re: Samogitian E with dot above and macron

2010-10-26 Thread James Cloos
if you use KDE then the Xorg bug report is probably enough. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: Samogitian E with dot above and macron

2010-10-26 Thread James Cloos
as most of the libre fonts in that the macron and dot overlap when rendering the NFC sequence. Even fonts which generate readable renderings for both NFC and NFD put the macron at different height about the baseline for each. NFD in general is still very much hit or miss. -JimC -- James Cloos cl

Re: Hexadecimal digits

2010-06-10 Thread James Cloos
whereas his did not. Having found and tried out hers first, when I did play with his -- I was 8 or 9 at the time -- I had no idea how to type 0 or 1. Using Oh and el did not occur to me.) (His was early 1950's vintage, hers late 1950's vintage.) -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP