Tolkenian Sarati (Formerly: RE: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode)

2002-10-24 Thread Robert
--- On Sun 10/13, Tom Gewecke < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: Tom Gewecke [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:26:04 -0700 Subject: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode > The latest Mac OS X upgrade has fonts that include the classic > Mong

Re: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-15 Thread Andrew C. West
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Stefan Persson wrote: That font also includes some characters mapped to the PUA: A € sign, and several #28450; character, many of which look like radicals. Why? Is that something that's also required by that law? It's my experience that many fonts include gunk in the

Re: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-15 Thread Markus Scherer
Andrew C. West wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Stefan Persson wrote: That font also includes some characters mapped to the PUA: A € sign, and several #28450; character, many of which look like radicals. Why? Is that something that's also required by that law? It's my experience that many fonts

Re: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Everson
At 11:26 -0700 2002-10-13, Tom Gewecke wrote: The latest Mac OS X upgrade has fonts that include the classic Mongolian/Manchu range, 1800-18AF Where? -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com 48B Gleann na Carraige; Cill Fhionntain; Baile Átha Cliath 13; Éire

Re: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Everson
At 13:29 +0200 2002-10-14, Herbert Elbrecht wrote: Hi Michael - Apple Character Palette has special Show only fonts containing selected character - click triangle below, select Mongolian Unicode Block first, and a Monglian character then; now activate Show only fonts containing selected

Re: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-14 Thread Andrew C. West
ensures compliance with the new law, and thus allows Microsoft and Apple to continue to sell their operating systems in China. As far as I am aware there is nobody out there currently engaged in the production of a proper Unicode Mongolian/Manchu font - but I'd pleased if someone could prove me wrong

Re: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-14 Thread Tom Gewecke
At 11:26 -0700 2002-10-13, Tom Gewecke wrote: The latest Mac OS X upgrade has fonts that include the classic Mongolian/Manchu range, 1800-18AF Where? STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong If you feel like typing the characters, I have a keyboard at http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/fs/

Re: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-14 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 12:26 PM, Tom Gewecke wrote: The latest Mac OS X upgrade has fonts that include the classic Mongolian/Manchu range, 1800-18AF. Well, yes, but they're not ready for prime time. They're included because of PRC requirements which expect the glyphs but don't

Re: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Everson
At 06:49 -0700 2002-10-14, Peter Lofting wrote: At 1:35 PM +0100 10/14/02, Michael Everson wrote: Apple's Character Palette will not load on my machine, a bug which I have been filing for a good while now. Works on my iBook. What machine have you got? Did you get a copy of 10.2 from Cork? No,

Re: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Everson
At 12:52 -0700 2002-10-14, Peter Lofting wrote: At 4:33 PM +0100 10/14/02, Michael Everson wrote: No, I get seeded 'cause I send in so many bugs. :-) Good ! So you got the OSX 10.2 developer seed disks Naaah I have to download them from Apple with a 56K modem with metered access --

Re: Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Everson
At 14:36 -0700 2002-10-14, tom wrote: To get Character Palette to actually change fonts in the panel, use the Glyph Catalog tab. Nope. This doesn't work for me. Changing the font in Glyph Catalogue does not change all my fonts. Actually, *my* fonts don't seem to appear. It is most strange.

Manchu/Mongolian in Unicode

2002-10-13 Thread Tom Gewecke
The latest Mac OS X upgrade has fonts that include the classic Mongolian/Manchu range, 1800-18AF. Displaying these scripts correctly seems to be loaded with problems: They should run top-to-bottom and left-to-right, with ligatures and positional variants similar to Arabic. I assume that