RE: transliteration of mjagkij znak (Cyrillic soft sign)

2016-02-09 Thread Martin Heijdra
separately in Persian, the two are separated in romanization by a single prime ( ʹ ). khānahʹhā Martin Heijdra -Original Message- From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Michael Everson Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 8:43 AM To: Unicode Discussion Subject

RE: Case for letters j and J with acute

2016-02-09 Thread Martin Heijdra
Actually, current use (e.g. the Brill font made by John Hudson) says: [cid:image001.png@01D16351.1F1BC730] The double acute is for languages such as Hungarian etc. \ Martin Heijdra From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Verdy Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 2

Unihan database

2012-04-13 Thread Martin Heijdra
Librarians are certainly a group of users using Unihan a lot, to identify encodings for rare characters. Several of them have complained that it gets more and more difficult to use for them. One issue is, that the database itself started to use encodings rather than images; which made it

RE: [unicode] Unihan database

2012-04-13 Thread Martin Heijdra
PM To: Martin Heijdra Cc: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: [unicode] Unihan database I think this comment is related with the current implementation of SimSun. Why don't you try to install the free fonts that can support the missing characters? From the viewpoint of an user over the distant network

Unihan is back, but...

2010-08-03 Thread Martin Heijdra
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Status of Unihan

2010-07-12 Thread Martin Heijdra
When will Unihan be back? It has been down for quite a while now, and there are librarians for whom checking this is part of their workflow… Martin

Re: in the NEW YORK TIMES today, report of a USA patent for a method to make the Arabic language easier to read/write/typeset

2004-03-15 Thread Martin Heijdra
de la culture arabe / Roberto Hamm. Published/Created: Paris (1-3, rue Feutrier, 75018) : Sindbad, 1975. Physical Description: 193 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Martin Heijdra

Order of fonts/encodings used in Internet Explorer

2004-01-16 Thread Martin Heijdra
I know this has been asked and answered before, but I cannot find any reference to it now that I need the answer. Unicode, or also otherwise encoded files in Internet Explorer display with glyphs taken from fonts in a certain order. I.e., Arabic may not be displaying with the font specified for

Michael Everson in the news

2003-09-25 Thread Martin Heijdra
In today's New York Times (Circuits section) there is an article (with pictures) on Michael Everson and Unicode. Rick McGowan and Deborah Anderson make guest appearances. On the net: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/technology/circuits/25code.html Martin J. Heijdra Chinese Studies/East Asian

Re: Precomposed Tibetan

2002-12-17 Thread Martin Heijdra
Strangely Peter Lofting didn't say this, since he was one of its original developers, but there is also a (now) free Tibetan Language Kit for the Mac at http://www.otani.ac.jp/cri/twrp/TLK/index.html which forms stacking characters based upon single characters. Martin Heijdra - Original

Re: Mongolian Encoding

2002-12-16 Thread Martin Heijdra
examples (which are fuller than the textual explanations, and have implications not explicitly stated); there is a Chinese book called Mengguwen bianma which at parts is fuller and more explicit. There are still some rare cases not covered by either. Martin Heijdra - Original Message

Re: FW: New version of TR29:

2002-08-21 Thread Martin Heijdra
. Martin - Original Message - From: Andrew C. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:42 AM Subject: Re: FW: New version of TR29: On Tue, 20 August 2002, Martin Heijdra wrote: Just FYI (I have not been following this thread

Re: FW: New version of TR29:

2002-08-20 Thread Martin Heijdra
, usage outside this group of people varies. Martin Heijdra - Original Message - From: Doug Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andrew C. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:56 AM Subject: Re: FW: New version of TR29: Andrew C. West andrewcwest at alumni

Re: IJ unique?

2002-07-16 Thread Martin Heijdra
), 1873-1943. Martin Heijdra - Original Message - From: Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:07 AM Subject: Re: IJ unique? At 07:49 -0400 2002-07-16, John Cowan wrote: Among those scripts which traditionally treat certain two-letter

Re: Variant selectors in Mongolian

2002-07-16 Thread Martin Heijdra
theoretically necessary. Martin Heijdra - Original Message - From: Timothy Partridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:53 PM Subject: Re: Variant selectors in Mongolian You recently said: I

Re: Variant selectors in Mongolian

2002-07-11 Thread Martin Heijdra
the usual glyph is to be read as an a or an n. That's why the irregular (because usually, unnecessary) dots came into being. And that's why words without variant selectors might not be legible... Martin Heijdra

Variant selectors in Mongolian

2002-07-10 Thread Martin Heijdra
formations marked with the variant selector, and irregular ones unmarked. Which of the two cases is meant by Unicode? Martin Heijdra Chinese Bibliographer East Asian Library and the Gest Collection Frist Campus Center, Room 317 Princeton University 33 Frist Campus Center Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

Re: Chinese variants

2002-05-28 Thread Martin Heijdra
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Re: Book

2002-03-07 Thread Martin Heijdra
; can order (which in my experience does not mean that it is actually available. I still saw it in stores when I was in Tokyo in Dec.) 世界の文字の図典 ISBN:4642085157 605p 26cm(B5) 吉川弘文館 (1993-08-10出版) ・世界の文字研究会【編】 [A4 判] NDC分類:801.1 販売価:\16,990(税別) On 03/06/2002 03:59:25 PM Martin Heijdra wrote: It's

Book

2002-03-06 Thread Martin Heijdra
 1,232頁 4-385-15177-6 Martin Heijdra Chinese Bibliographer East Asian Library and the Gest Collection Frist Campus Center, Room 317 Princeton University 33 Frist Campus Center Princeton, NJ 08544 USA BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Heijdra;Martin FN:Martin Heijdra EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Book

2002-03-06 Thread Martin Heijdra
hand-drawn pictures and tables, with minimal (and rather obvious introductory) texts: useful but not essential. I hope you have a chance to see the book before you decide. Martin Heijdra - Original Message - From: Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

BMAC Seal Redux: the Sceptices, and a color picture

2001-07-31 Thread Martin Heijdra
Todays NYT has a follow-up todat to the BMAC Seal, hotly debated here: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/science/social/31SEAL.html Martin Heijdra Chinese Bibliographer Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections Room 317 Princeton University 33 Frist Campus Center Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

Re: Unicode transliterations (and other operations)

2001-07-05 Thread Martin Heijdra
a much shorter bibliography, I think superceded by this book. Martin Heijdra - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 4:37 AM Subject: Re: Unicode transliterations (and other operations) On 07/02/2001 02:56:16 PM Mark Davis

Re: status of Jindai scripts?

2001-07-03 Thread Martin Heijdra
, or seem pictorial (all are syllabaries though.) While no serious current scholar treats them as really having existed, to what extent Hirata c.s. actually faked them themselves or were duped by others is an open question, one not taken up often enough it seems to me. Martin Heijdra - Original

Re: Ancient writing found in Turkmenistan

2001-05-16 Thread Martin Heijdra
after the fall of the Soviet Union. Of course, it were the British and American archaeologists only who were ignoring this area; Russian, French, Italian and German books and articles had been appearing for decades, and had made their way into many a non-English general public-oriented book... Martin