Re: Fun with UDCs in Shift-JIS

2002-01-19 Thread Lars Marius Garshol
* Lars Marius Garshol | | Well, that's what I thought, anyway. But now my Japanese colleagues | tell me that Japanese users sometimes have to define their own | characters in their own fonts in order to be able to write some | characters they may need (for example to write their own name), and |

Re: The benefit of a symbol for 2 pi

2002-01-19 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2002-01-19 9:33:46 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has there been any consideration of practical alternatives, such as selecting a lookalike or similar character from the plethora of those already encoded and promoting its use to represent the newpi

Re: The benefit of a symbol for 2 pi

2002-01-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 13:32 -0500 2002-01-19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2002-01-19 9:33:46 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has there been any consideration of practical alternatives, such as selecting a lookalike or similar character from the plethora of those already encoded

Re: The benefit of a symbol for 2 pi

2002-01-19 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2002-01-19 11:35:57 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could one of these characters, already approved and part of Unicode, be adopted to represent 2pi? That's up the the AMS, not to us. Indeed. It might be a good topic for the AMS discussion forum that

Devanagari

2002-01-19 Thread Aman Chawla
Iwould be grateful if I could get opinions on the following: 1. Which encoding/character set is most suitable for using Hindi/Marathi (both of which use Devanagari) on the internet as well asin databases, and why? In your response, please refer to:

Re: The benefit of a symbol for 2 pi

2002-01-19 Thread James Kass
Robert Palais wrote, My own proposal was a pictogram: A circle with a radius to 3 o'clock, i.e. from 0 to 1 in the complex number plane. Pacman with mouth closed. Does that already exist in Unicode? :-) My dad's version is a lot more palatable for most people. Couldn't find such a