Re: Planes 1 and 2

2000-07-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
was broken the last time I checked. Well, but the roadmap for Plane 2 is *really* simple. You just fill it with 40,000+ ideographs from the bottom up. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng

Re: Names of planes, and request for sneak preview

2000-07-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
At the same time, it would be nice to have a Unicodally correct way of referring to planes 1 and 2, since there is an important boundary between them. And of course, the *proper* way to refer to plane 14 is to pretend it doesn't exist at all. :-) -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Han character names?

2000-07-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
characters recently standardized (e.g., JIS X 0213, HK GCCS), fills in the nooks and crannies from CNS 11643-1992, and adds what's needed to fully cover the Hanyu Da Zidian and KangXi. Maybe they'll start on the Shuowen next and then move back to pre-Zhou stuff. :-) -- = John H. Jenkins

Re: Han character names?

2000-07-12 Thread John H. Jenkins
question. We'd need to get a solid survey of the oracle bone characters and their modern counterparts. One problem is that a significant percentage of the former aren't identified (or even identifiable) with modern characters. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Pronunciation of Unicode

2000-07-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 2:33 PM -0800 7/14/00, Tex Texin wrote: And do we know which locale we are debating the pronounciation of? Michael is in Ireland, not sure where John hangs his hat. Salt Lake City, where people go fishing in the cricks. We seem to have a thing for short i's hereabouts. -- = John H

Re: Emoticons

2000-07-19 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Wednesday, July 19, 2000, at 12:49 PM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: BTW, did anyone get the smileys right at the first sight? They looked OK to me.

Re: 127 strokes beyond the radical?!

2000-07-22 Thread John H. Jenkins
between different locales results in different stroke counts. 2) We only use one glyph for the character even so. Oh, and 3) The RS index is produced by computer, so unexpected data can have unexpected results. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Oracle and Surrogate Pairs

2000-07-24 Thread John H. Jenkins
at this point. = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng

Re: Unicode has included the Inscriptions of

2000-07-28 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 12:09 PM -0800 7/28/00, Curtis Clark wrote: At the other extreme, the unique, undeciphered Phaistos disk script was turned down for inclusion. Actually, to be strict about it, it wasn't turned down. Its status is "unapproved." -- ===== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: FW: Unicode and CJK unification

2000-08-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
(and not Japanese) will give you the Chinese forms. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread John H. Jenkins
disastrous when done once that makes everyone determined not to do it again. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng

Rép. : Re: surrogate terminology

2000-09-12 Thread John H. Jenkins
sed to talking about "imaginary" and "irrational" numbers, too. (My thirteen-year-old refuses to believe that imaginary numbers are "real." *sigh*) = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng

Unicode 3.0 PDF charts have moved

2000-09-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
Because of persistent problems with the charts.unicode.org server, we have moved the PDF files containing the charts for Unicode 3.0 to http://www.unicode.org/charts/. The Web charts and Unihan database remain at the same URLs. Please update your bookmarks appropriately.

Re: Microsoft Office 2001 Mac

2000-10-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
, Arabic, Indic scripts), but it *still* has problems with the metrics for Chinese. Some of my ad hoc "scripts" work and some don't, which is better than was the case for Word '98. -- ===== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng

(no subject)

2000-10-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
URL, http://www.unicode.org/charts/. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng

Re: Giga Character Set: Anything besides noise

2000-10-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
e any reality at all behind it, or is it just noise and slander? Considering the fact that they say that CJK is done with a pictographic writing system, they call ß a "beta," and they know nothing about surrogates (just after a surface reading), I'd say they don't know what they're t

charts.unicode.org is available

2000-10-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
Subject says it all -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng

Re: Transcriptions of Unicode

2000-12-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
The IRG is unifying in plane 2, as well. Nobody in the IRG has suggested that we abandon unification for plane 2. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Transcriptions of Unicode

2000-12-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
and Polish accents? Or Fraktur and Italic and Roman styles of Latin? -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Implementing Complex Unicode Scripts

2001-02-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
and ATSUI require special tables in a font for it to work correctly with complex scripts. Since the special tables are different for the two technologies, in order for a font to work with both systems it needs both sets of extra tables. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Implementing Complex Unicode Scripts

2001-02-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
list. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: fictional scripts revisited

2001-02-23 Thread John H. Jenkins
standardization on this planet. I believe that recent evidence shows conclusively that the Phaistos disk is a written in a syllabic script that requires 1,234,567 unique precomposed symbols. :-) -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Fictional scripts revisited, might as well relax about it now

2001-02-23 Thread John H. Jenkins
it. Any non-fictional script ditto. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Question on Unicode data files

2001-02-26 Thread John H. Jenkins
is *NOT* the official site. They are not in any way associated with Unicode. The official Unihan database is available only from unicode.org. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Close enough

2001-02-26 Thread John H. Jenkins
he'd have cared). OK, as the resident Asimov nut I have to weigh in. Sorry, the story is *not* by the Good Doctor. Although he was very fun of the feghoot and wrote several, this isn't one of them. And yes, he was *very* sensitive about the spelling and pronunciation of his name. -- ==

Re: Implementing Complex Unicode Scripts

2001-02-26 Thread John H. Jenkins
(Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging) and MLTE (Multi-Lingual Text Edit) APIs. It's also available to anyone doing Cocoa programming. As for OT support, we're investigating how this might be done on the Mac at the system level. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code

2001-03-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
, but there really are people out there who do want to use it on their computers. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code

2001-03-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
in Extension B are required for JIS X 0213 support, which is going to be a sine qua non in Japan within a few years. There was a push a little while ago to put these characters on the BMP for precisely this reason, but it was opposed both within the UTC and WG2 and then abandoned. -- = John H

Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

2001-04-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
it. Whenever I need to type Deseret, I use an IM that converts to Latin to Deseret on the fly. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Pollard list set up

2001-04-26 Thread John H. Jenkins
subscribe in the subject line. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: FW: chinese conversion tables

2001-05-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
of the chemical elements, until recently the word for computer). It really isn't possible to convert between simplified and traditional characters without doing a lexical analysis. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

RE: IDS question

2001-05-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 1:34 PM -0500 5/2/01, Ayers, Mike wrote: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2.pdf appears to be missing. Am I looking in the right place? Unfortunately, it isn't available yet. Unicode doesn't have a Plane 2 font, although we're actively working to get one. -- = John H. Jenkins

Re: Why call kanji/hanji/hanja 'ideographs' when almost none are?

2001-06-01 Thread John H. Jenkins
an East Asian language, hanzi would be best. (I'm tempted to say that Honjih would be best, but I'll be a good boy and resist.) -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

RE: RECOMMENDATIONs( Term Asian is not used properly on Computersand NET)

2001-06-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
it as if it were French. Even when one writes Cantonese and not Mandarin, most of the characters used are the same. Many common words are completely different, of course, but the bulk of the vocabulary goes across without change. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Book review: Cang Method

2001-06-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
look-up by component and pinyin. The current alpha version has full Ext A and B support. Look for a new release soon. Let me echo that. Wenlin is a marvelous reference program for anyone interested in CJK. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com

Re: New characters query

2001-07-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
and not the hexagrams, although I know why it worked out that way. Richard, are they used much *outside* of the Yi? If so, I think it's reasonable to add them. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: status of Jindai scripts?

2001-07-03 Thread John H. Jenkins
it, the only signs which are sufficiently well understood that they would meet criterion (1) are already in Unicode in the form of their modern forms. I could be wrong and am starting to research the matter myself. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com

Re: Shavian (was: Re: UTF-17)

2001-07-04 Thread John H. Jenkins
the characters? FWIW, there is a small but non-zero Shavian user community, and a number of fonts are available, some of them very pretty. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Shavian

2001-07-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
century written using it. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Erratum in Unicode book

2001-07-08 Thread John H. Jenkins
position for a character in this kind of an index, sad to say. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Erratum in Unicode book

2001-07-09 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 6:05 PM -0700 7/8/01, Richard Cook wrote: John H. Jenkins wrote: It is on occasion something of an art figuring out the correct radical/stroke position for a character in this kind of an index, sad to say. I'd say, when 2 radicals are possible, put it under both. When 3, well ... you

Re: Erratum in Unicode book

2001-07-09 Thread John H. Jenkins
, for that matter). Meanwhile, there are all kinds of handy indexing schemes for Unihan, and it would be nice to provide the data to use them; the main problem is that Unicode's resources to generate data like that are extremely limited. Donations, meanwhile, are welcome. -- = John H. Jenkins

Re: Erratum in Unicode book

2001-07-09 Thread John H. Jenkins
been willing to sell data to the Unicode Consortium, but we really don't have any kind of budget for this sort of thing. All the data in the Unihan database has been donated, none of it bought. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Erratum in Unicode book

2001-07-09 Thread John H. Jenkins
is that the only set of data we have right now that covers everything is the radical-stroke data. The next problem is my finding the time to produce PDFs of the alternate indices. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Erratum in Unicode book

2001-07-09 Thread John H. Jenkins
. The way it's done now is definitely bad, bad, bad. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Erratum in Unicode book

2001-07-09 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 9:29 AM -0700 7/9/01, James Kass wrote: John H. Jenkins wrote: The main problem is that the only set of data we have right now that covers everything is the radical-stroke data. The next problem is my finding the time to produce PDFs of the alternate indices. Has the UNIHAN.TXT

Re: Erratum in Unicode book

2001-07-09 Thread John H. Jenkins
that the font that Unicode uses must be coordinated with the IRG work. MS doesn't have that restriction. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Question regarding Mac OS X Unicode support

2001-07-16 Thread John H. Jenkins
Unicode, as well, since all text on Cocoa is Unicode. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Native font format

2001-07-27 Thread John H. Jenkins
are supported from 8.5 onwards in ATSUI. John Jenkins at Apple can probably provide more precise information. He may or may not want to burden you with knowledge of the esoteric .dfont format. He does not want to. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com

Re: mandarin

2001-09-12 Thread John H. Jenkins
for instances where non-BMP characters may be necessary. -- = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001

2001-10-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
for them in plain text, and definitely *not* to use distinct code points to represent them. -- John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001

2001-10-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 5:28 PM +0100 10/2/01, Michael Everson wrote: The CSUR is maintained to support scripts of various kinds. Some of those (Shavian, Deseret, Tengwar, Cirth) are expected to graduate into Unicode. And one of them already has! -- John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001

2001-10-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
but doesn't work on X. Yet. -- John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001

2001-10-03 Thread John H. Jenkins
that way. -- John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Deseret keyboard (was:Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001)

2001-10-03 Thread John H. Jenkins
a copy of his font. -- John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001

2001-10-03 Thread John H. Jenkins
burden on the user? If anything, plain text is becoming an increasingly rare beast except in source code. -- John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

RE: Code points for al-Qaeda

2001-10-03 Thread John H. Jenkins
Pinyin, which leaves us to puzzle out how to prounce qun and xue, while still mispronouncing cun and peng. In my eyes, it's a tie. Yeah, well, they're both based on the wrong dialect, anyway. Barbaric Mandarin-speaking northerners. :-) -- John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001

2001-10-05 Thread John H. Jenkins
doesn't do typography. -- John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Ext-B fonts updated

2001-10-24 Thread John H. Jenkins
of 40,000 characters involved, we cannot guarantee that they are all perfectly accurate. Meanwhile, the *official* definition of the character is its mappings and the *informal* definition is its glyph. That's as much as we can do. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: YO, ho ho, and a bottle of vodka

2001-10-30 Thread John H. Jenkins
Just to swerve the topic of conversation here, in the E for effort department, what about a statue to the Emperor Claudius for at least trying to add letters to the Latin alphabet? And does anybody know what the letters *were*? == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Unicode-CNS11643 mappings

2001-11-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
? -- Kevin Bracey, Principal Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology plc Tel: +44 (0) 1223 518566 645 Newmarket RoadFax: +44 (0) 1223 518526 Cambridge, CB5 8PB, United KingdomWWW: http://www.pace.co.uk/ == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL

Re: Two new documents

2001-10-08 Thread John H. Jenkins
. On the other hand, there *is* just the one document (or board game), so there's only so much one can do. And it remains the only encoding proposal sent to the UTC which contains the entire known corpus of writing in the script as a part of the proposal. -- John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Plane One use, was Re: HTML Validation

2001-12-17 Thread John H. Jenkins
at http://developer.apple.com/fonts/Tools/index.html to put astral cmaps into their fonts. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Rush request for help!

2001-12-21 Thread John H. Jenkins
for a Global E-conomy) (TM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25 N. Washington St. Rochester, NY 14614-1110 USA Phone: +1 716.454.4210 Fax: +1 716.454.4213 == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Character display problem example

2002-01-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, at 08:38 AM, Suzanne M. Topping wrote: Does anyone know if this is a known problem? It's a known problem and is being worked on. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Chinese grades

2002-01-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
in it. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: GBK Traditional to Simplified mapping table

2002-01-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
of an organization like Unicode, simply hasn't been the done. (Maybe an ambitious university student with an MA thesis to write…?) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Q: smEthiopic in Apple Localization Codes

2002-01-11 Thread John H. Jenkins
of 32 scripts would have no choice but to hijack one of the existing codes and reuse it for their own purposes. In this case, there's clearly an Inuit system for the Mac out there which has hijacked the Ethiopic script code in the absence of any other that could be used. == John H. Jenkins

Re: TC/SC mapping

2002-01-23 Thread John H. Jenkins
. Actually, no. Both KangXi and the Cihai list U+8721 (蜡) as a traditional character in its own right, although I assume it's rare as I can't find it in my other dictionaries. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: TC/SC mapping

2002-01-24 Thread John H. Jenkins
, and future compatibility ideographs will be excluded from use in IDN. (Actually, you could save yourself some grief right off by excluding Han radicals and all compatibility ideographs.) == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: TC/SC mapping

2002-01-24 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 11:44 AM, Thomas Chan wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, John H. Jenkins wrote: However, this is already a problem in Unicode. shuowen.org will have to register both U+8AAAU+6587.org and U+8AACU+6587.org; Jingwa, Inc., will need both U+4E3CU+86D9 and U+4E95U

Re: TC/SC mapping

2002-01-24 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 12:29 PM, John Cowan wrote: John H. Jenkins wrote: {TC1, SC1, SC2, TC2, TC3, SC3} constitute a Han simplification class (HSC), and are all the same when appearing in IDNs. Correct? Oui. The caveat is that this must be understood to be a first-order

Re: MISTER YUCK

2002-01-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
it in text, despite the fact that it's in all our fonts). Anyone who *does* use it in text is free to use U+F8FF, as we do, to map it to Unicode. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Questions about Unicode history

2002-01-30 Thread John H. Jenkins
in the font, parse it, and process it appropriately using public functions. The one piece still missing is automatic support for OT layout data in the system. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Phonetic grouping in UniHan

2002-02-04 Thread John H. Jenkins
fequency measurement for the character based on analysis of Chinese # USENET postings == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Unicode and Security

2002-02-05 Thread John H. Jenkins
Y'know, I must confess to not following this thread at all. Yes, it is impossible to tell from the glyphs on the screen what sequence of Unicode characters was used to generate them. Just *how*, exactly, is this a security problem? == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Unicode and Security

2002-02-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat use, do I refuse to sign documents they create? Is that the idea? I mean, good heavens, I don't even know *precisely* what bytes Mail. app is going to use for this email. Should I refuse to sign it? == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: the Unicode range and code page range bits in the TrueType OS/2 table

2002-02-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 07:44 PM, Yung-Fong Tang wrote: Deborah: How about MacOS and Mac OS Apps No. Apple doesn't use anything in the OS/2 table except the embedding permission field. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com

Re: Unicode Search Engines

2002-02-19 Thread John H. Jenkins
to know enough to take advantage of that, too. I have on my docket drafting a UTR on the subject with a list of precomposed glyphs which would be desirable in fonts and available to end users. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: fj ligature [Re: Devanagari variations]

2002-03-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
an fj ligature. If I'm not mistaken. most of Adobe's Pro fonts do, too. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: [OT] Slight Font Confusion

2002-03-06 Thread John H. Jenkins
to which it supports Unicode. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements and Unappr oved Characters)

2002-03-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
of characters in Ciao-Ciao's poetry or the Manyoshu which are missing? If so, you've got a couple of weeks to propose them before the door closes on new characters for Han Extension C. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements and Unappr oved Characters)

2002-03-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
missing for modern non-Mandarin dialects of Chinese; some of the ones Unicode is proposing for CJK Extension C are from Cantonese dictionaries. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements and Unappr oved Characters)

2002-03-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
cannot be represented by Unicode 3.2. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements and Unappr oved Characters)

2002-03-15 Thread John H. Jenkins
relieved to find there is no Unidict !) Rather more like they should add positronic because Isaac Asimov used it. It's in the OED. Asimov gets credit for both that and robotics. But that's only because other people picked up the word and ran with it. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL

Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements and Unappr oved Characters)

2002-03-16 Thread John H. Jenkins
for a IDEOGRAPHIC TABOO VARIATION INDICATOR for precisely this reason. Sorry. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements and Unappr oved Characters)

2002-03-16 Thread John H. Jenkins
to. You'd need something like Wenlin to actually draw your character in text. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Synthetic scripts

2002-03-17 Thread John H. Jenkins
of people (size left vague) who want to interchange data in the script, or if there is a historic body of literature in the script. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: 31 Angry Watanabes (or the Itaiji problem)

2002-03-18 Thread John H. Jenkins
. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: 31 Angry Watanabes (or the Itaiji problem)

2002-03-19 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 02:15 PM, Dan Kogai wrote: On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 01:33 , John H. Jenkins wrote: Of course, the correct solution to this is not to grouse about Unicode (since it does better than any other character set around), but for JIS to get an authoritative

Re: Talk about Unicode Myths...

2002-03-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
. In international context, it is technically impossible to properly display Unicode characters. There is no implementation exist. While some implementations work in some localized context, local character set serves better for the context. Masataka Ohta == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL

Re: Talk about Unicode Myths...

2002-03-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 08:19 AM, John Cowan wrote: I am now developing a patch for Mozilla that causes it to display all URLs in Fraktur fonts only. No, no. Convert them into phonetics and write them in Deseret. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Talk about Unicode Myths...

2002-03-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
if at all possible. Again, the typographic tradition in Japan is to write kanji with Japanese glyphs *even* when Chinese is the language being written. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Talk about Unicode Myths...

2002-03-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
) cultural imperialism. Unfortunately, Ohta-san can still get himself a hearing on a number of Internet-related committees. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Talk about Unicode Myths...

2002-03-20 Thread John H. Jenkins
that they should be unified. Surrogates were introduced because it was clear that we would ultimately need more than 65536 code points to encode what people wanted to represent. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Ideographic description characters?

2002-03-28 Thread John H. Jenkins
), or do these character serve for a completely different purpose? Does any font support the characters in this block? Stefan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com == John H. Jenkins

Re: who can make a detail comment about kSpecializedSemanticVariant

2002-04-02 Thread John H. Jenkins
but different abstract shapes. where can I find more detail reference document about them ? The Unicode Standard, version 3.0, pp. 262-263. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

Re: Character for e, 2.71828...

2002-04-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
but none of which identified themselves as this number in particular. U+0065. Except in rare cases for backwards compatibility with other standards, Unicode does not include special characters for mathematical or physical constants. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Concerning proposals

2002-04-12 Thread John H. Jenkins
PGs, .PNGs, ...) for the additional characters you'd like to see admitted into Unicode. I believe that the proposal form specifically requires a TrueType font, although not necessarily with the initial proposal. We can't use clipart pix in the standard. ====== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Concerning proposals

2002-04-12 Thread John H. Jenkins
in Unicode. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

  1   2   3   >