Re: UTF-8 display (was: Re: a mug)

2015-07-22 Thread Marcel Schneider
Public Objet : Re: UTF-8 display (was: Re: a mug) Normally you should be able to get correct display in a case like this by just going to the View Encoding menu of your browser and switching to Unicode UTF-8. On Jul 22, 2015, at 2:38 AM, Marcel Schneider wrote:  The workaround

Re: UTF-8 display (was: Re: a mug)

2015-07-22 Thread Marcel Schneider
On 21 Jul 2015, at 16;00, Tom Gewecke wrote: The IBM page seems to have an ellipsis character in UTF-8, with bytes E2 80 A6. The web server is set to force all browsers to use the encoding iso-8859-1 regardless of what charset is stipulated in the html code. The browser uses the Win 1252

UTF-8 display (was: Re: a mug)

2015-07-21 Thread Marcel Schneider
On 13 Jul 2015, at 11:28, I wrote: The only time I saw UTF-8 like on the T-shirt, was when opening UTF-8 files that didn't specify charset=UTF-8. The thing to do was to add the charset in the file header. Now I see that this issue is much more tricky. I've just stumbled over a no-display

Re: UTF-8 display (was: Re: a mug)

2015-07-21 Thread Tom Gewecke
The IBM page seems to have an ellipsis character in UTF-8, with bytes E2 80 A6. The web server is set to force all browsers to use the encoding iso-8859-1 regardless of what charset is stipulated in the html code. The browser uses the Win 1252 equivalents and displays … To see what a web

Input methods at the age of Unicode (was: a mug)

2015-07-15 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, at 20:54, Hans Aberg wrote: On 11 Jul 2015, at 18:36, Johannes Bergerhausen wrote: As I said at TEDx in Vienna: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRdupNXpm8k] The keyboards for different languages are essentially the same nowadays: it sends a code indicating which

Re: a mug

2015-07-13 Thread Philippe Verdy
2015-07-13 11:15 GMT+02:00 Marcel Schneider charupd...@orange.fr: It's roughly the same problem with the CSS and UTF-8 malfunctioning that is laughed at with the other merchandising items brought in by Umesh: http://www.zazzle.com/cheap_css_is_awesome_mug-168565401817501350

Re: a mug

2015-07-13 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 18:15, Daniel Bünzli wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, 16:26, Marcel Schneider a écrit : As I feel concerned too, I'd like (I ♥) to underscore that the designer of this mug seems to be insulting Unicode implementers Being one of these I would like to tell you that I

Re: a mug

2015-07-12 Thread Umesh P N
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Marcel Schneider charupd...@orange.fr wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, Julian Bradfield wrote: I feel the following mug says something about a popular topic of debate on this list... As I feel concerned too, I'd like (I ♥) to underscore that the designer

Re: a mug

2015-07-11 Thread Daniel Bünzli
Le samedi, 11 juillet 2015 à 16:26, Marcel Schneider a écrit : As I feel concerned too, I'd like (I ♥) to underscore that the designer of this mug seems to be insulting Unicode implementers Being one of these I would like to tell you that I feel absolutely not insulted by this mug. I find

a mug

2015-07-11 Thread Julian Bradfield
I feel the following mug says something about a popular topic of debate on this list... http://www.redbubble.com/people/insider/works/15315362-i-3-unicode (do look at the picture, don't just infer from the url) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland

Re: a mug

2015-07-11 Thread Johannes Bergerhausen
Yes, the mug is funny. It shows not a Unicode problem, it points at a general font problem of operating systems. Dear Apple, Dear Google, Dear Microsoft: please give us *all* missing Unicode glyphs right inside your operating systems! As I said at TEDx in Vienna: www.youtube.com/watch?v

Re: a mug

2015-07-11 Thread Karl Williamson
On 07/11/2015 10:36 AM, Johannes Bergerhausen wrote: Yes, the mug is funny. It shows not a Unicode problem, it points at a general font problem of operating systems. Dear Apple, Dear Google, Dear Microsoft: please give us *all* missing Unicode glyphs right inside your operating systems

Re: a mug

2015-07-11 Thread Shervin Afshar
☝️. , Unicode ⌨ ⏩⏩⏩ ⚙ ;  vs. . . ⚙  Unicode ✂️. ⌨⚙ . ❌ ⚙ . ↪ Shervin On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Julian Bradfield jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk wrote: I feel the following mug says something about a popular topic of debate on this list... http

Re: a mug

2015-07-11 Thread Hans Aberg
On 11 Jul 2015, at 18:36, Johannes Bergerhausen johan...@bergerhausen.com wrote: As I said at TEDx in Vienna: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRdupNXpm8k] The keyboards for different languages are essentially the same nowadays: it sends a code indicating which button is acted on and