Re: UTF8E

2000-06-26 Thread Michael Yau
I think you are referring to the UTF-EBCDIC for EBCDIC platforms: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr16/index.html Oracle8i supports UTF-EBCDIC with an Oracle character set name UTFE. Please refer to A-17 of the Oracle8i NLS Guide Release 2 (8.1.6) for details. - Michael [EMAIL

FW: CJK Width problem [URGENT]

2000-06-26 Thread Magda Danish (Unicode)
-Original Message-From: Marvin Bertha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:24 PMTo: Magda Danish (Unicode)Subject: CJK Width problem [URGENT] Dear Magda, Thank you for your help a few days ago. According to your information, I have obtained codepages MS936

Re: FW: CJK Width problem [URGENT]

2000-06-26 Thread Michael Everson
Please don't send out attachments to the whole list. ME Ar 09:57 -0800 2000-06-26, scríobh Magda Danish (Unicode): -Original Message- From: Marvin Bertha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:24 PM To: Magda Danish (Unicode) Subject: CJK Width problem [URGENT]

RE: Gender symbols

2000-06-26 Thread Mike Brown
I have sometimes wondered why these two useful, pre-existing symbols are not used in the U.S. to denote 'male' and 'female' on e.g. restroom doors. One possibility is that, because they are frequently associated with 'sexuality' A more likely explanation is that they are almost never used

RE: Gender symbols

2000-06-26 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
Doug Ewell wrote: I have sometimes wondered why these two useful, pre-existing symbols are not used in the U.S. to denote 'male' and 'female' on e.g. restroom doors. One possibility is that, because they are frequently associated with 'sexuality' or 'relations between the sexes,' they

Re: UTF-8N?

2000-06-26 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 05:29 AM 6/23/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. The Unicode Standard will deprecate the use of U+FFEF (Note: not U+FFFE) as a zero-width non-breaking space (despite its formal name). And U+FFEF should *only* be used as a byte order mark and/or signature. (That is already ambiguous