At 12:04 PM 08/02/2000 -0800, Geoffrey Waigh wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Alain LaBonté wrote:
À 07:12 2000-07-11 -0800, Doug Ewell a écrit:
Many English speakers also think ISO is an abbreviation or initialism
(not "acronym"; that term is correct only when the resulting "word"
is
At 01:41 AM 07/13/2000 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I can understand, the choice of the outgoing charset is highly
automatic in MS Outlook 2000. I suspects it depends on the combination of
characters that I (or the system) used in the various fields of the e-mail.
The problem is
At 04:27 AM 07/12/2000 -0800, Michael Everson wrote:
Ar 18:19 -0800 2000-07-11, scríobh Robert A. Rosenberg:
The problem would go away if the ISO would get their heads out of
their a$$ and drop the C1 junk from the NEW 'TOUCHED UP" 8859s and
put the CP125x codes there.
Excu
At 08:56 PM 07/11/2000 -0800, Geoffrey Waigh wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 15:30 -0800 on 07/11/00, Asmus Freytag wrote about Re: Euro
character in ISO:
There has been an attempt to create a series of 'touched up' 8859
standards. The problem
At 15:30 -0800 on 07/11/00, Asmus Freytag wrote about Re: Euro
character in ISO:
There has been an attempt to create a series of 'touched up' 8859
standards. The problem with these is that you get all the issues of
character set confusion that abound today with e.g. Windows CP 1252
mistaken for
At 06:43 AM 07/10/2000 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it is what I think it is, I don't want it in English.
How could it tell "aids" from "AIDS", for instance?
Or "joy" from "Joy"(name)?
Or Polish (nationality) from polish (shine) g.
--
Robert Lozyniak
Accusplit pedometer, purchased about
At 11:31 AM 06/22/2000 -0800, Michael Kaplan (Trigeminal Inc.) wrote:
I do not believe that this will require it to be added to a standard, and
this is a non-standard usage, but life is about dealing with things as they
are (and this is how they are!).
I assume that you also feel that the
At 10:54 PM 06/22/2000 -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
Now that Unicode plans to deprecate the use of U+FEFF as ZWNBSP,
programs that *expect* UTF-8 instead of SBCS will be able to throw away
an initial U+FEFF with even greater confidence. It may even be possible
for operating system developers to
At 12:12 PM 06/20/2000 -0800, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
Bob Rosenberg wrote:
This was my concern, there is no way to distinguish UTF-8 from Latin-1 in
case of upper ASCII characters here.
Yes there is - its called a "Sanity Check". You parse the file looking for
High-ASCII. If you
At 12:11 PM 06/15/2000 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) My alphabetical order: (digits are treated as letters):
[sp] [other punc.] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A Á Ä À B C Ç D E É Ë È F G H Í Ï Ì J K
L M N Ñ O Ó Ö Ò P Q R S T U Ú Ü Ù V W X Y ÿ(why couldn't I find this in
uppercase?)
=Alt+0159 (on a
At 02:37 AM 06/16/2000 -0800, Michael Everson wrote:
software that insists ... that all letters be capitalized is utterly evil.
:-)
It sure makes it hard to tell how to tell the difference between polish and
Polish (as well as how to pronounce the word "POLISH" since you first must
figure
At 07:53 AM 06/15/2000 -0800, Michael Kaplan (Trigeminal Inc.) wrote:
Eventually someone will have a language name that does not fit
or a language like German will inist on sorting sooner, under Deutsch rather
than under German, etc. (which I personally think makes more sense than
making a
At 09:57 AM 06/13/2000 -0800, Otto Stolz wrote:
Off-topic
Am 2000-06-13 um 17:49 h hat Alain geschrieben:
[Having pictograms everywhere] is much lighter than having to provide
indications, say, in 12 languages (most common example: toilets).
Watch out when you go to the bathroom in
At 07:29 AM 06/13/2000 -0800, Alain wrote:
With more than 2 languages, precedence becomes problematic. As an example
of language precedence, an actual case: at the Toronto Airport Radisson
Suite Hotels, my prefered hotel in Toronto (so far! but it could
change...), they recently introduced a
At 11:34 AM 06/13/2000 -0800, Alain wrote:
[Alain] In my example of this morning, it was not mainly because French
was in 5th position that I was the most upset, it is because I was in a
hurry -- that was last Tuesday -- and that I had to wait for the vocal
explanations for many minutes while
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