Re: ü

2002-01-22 Thread Michael Everson
At 20:09 -0500 2002-01-21, Patrick Andries wrote: Kenneth Whistler wrote: Patrick Andries wrote: I must say that I have already seen horrors such as geüpdated (the u is presumably approximated), again English messing with languages spelling and pronounciation... Languages don't mess with

Re: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-22 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:14:55PM +0100, Stefan Persson wrote: - Original Message - From: Lars Marius Garshol [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Unicoders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 21 januari 2002 15:16 Subject: Re: Norwegian sorting I doubt that there is an official standard for this,

Re: Unicode 3.2 Beta Period Finishing

2002-01-22 Thread Michael Everson
Regarding http://www.unicode.org/Public/BETA/Unicode3.2/Scripts-3.2.0d7.txtScripts-3.2.0d7.txt 21-Jan-2002 13:5739k It says: 03D0..03F5; GREEK # L [38] GREEK BETA SYMBOL..GREEK LUNATE EPSILON SYMBOL In the first place, 03E2 through 03EF are COPTIC letters, not Greek. In the

Devanagari on MacOS 9.2 and IE 5.1

2002-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I spoke to fast. Upon taking a closer look at the file, the font was not set properly. MacOS 9.2, Indian Language Kit, Mac IE 5.1 and Devanagari MT as font face seem to display UTF-8 encoded Hindi just fine. Etienne Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:24:16 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: The benefit of a symbol for 2 pi

2002-01-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Murray Sargent wrote: Capital pi is to product as capital sigma is to summation. But if I'm not mistaken, Unicode already has a separate character for n-ary products and summation (U+220F, U+2211), distinct from the capital Greek letters *and* the variant forms in the

Re: Norwegian sorting

2002-01-22 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:11:43AM -0500, Tex Texin wrote: Thanks Keld, that was one of the sources I checked first. I saw that it was based on a Norwegian standard, but it didn't say what the standard was used for. So I didn't know if this was a collation that dictionaries or phone books

RE: Devanagari

2002-01-22 Thread Marco Cimarosti
David Starner wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:20:17PM +0100, Marco Cimarosti wrote: What this means in practice for website developers is: 1) SCSU text can only be edited with a text editor which properly decodes the *whole* file on load and re-encodes it on save. On the other

Re: RE: ü

2002-01-22 Thread Patrick Andries
Marco Cimarosti wrote: 27E7FB58F42CD5119C0D0002557C0CCA16B44F@XCHANGE"> Patrick Andries wrote: Funny: I have just read a similar but opposite opinion on an Italiannewsgroup. Somebody said: if really we must accept English terms such as"file" or "window", we should at list do the effort of

Re: Unicode 3.2 Beta Period Finishing

2002-01-22 Thread Rick McGowan
Doug Ewell reported: Many of the embedded images in the Standardized Variants document are missing. The missing images have been fixed. Rick

Re: Unicode 3.2 Beta Period Finishing

2002-01-22 Thread Mark Davis \(jtcsv\)
Currently, the Coptic characters are treated as extensions to the Greek script, much as the Urdu characters are treated as extensions to the Arabic script. So for now, at least, they should be marked as Greek. If the UTC and SC2 ever disunify the scripts, then the Script property value would need

Re: Devanagari on MacOS 9.2 and IE 5.1

2002-01-22 Thread Yung-Fong Tang
It should be fine also on Netscape 6.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> I spoke to fast. Upon taking a closer look at the file, the font was not set properly. MacOS 9.2, Indian Language Kit, Mac IE 5.1 and Devanagari MT as font face seem to display UTF-8 encoded Hindi just