Re: Looking up han characters

2000-06-28 Thread John Hudson
, you might find the new _Kanji Learners Dictionary_ useful. This is edited by Jack Halpern and published by, I think, Kodayashi. It has several methods of looking up characters by stroke count, radical, etc., and has the great benefit of providing the Unicode codepoint for each entry. John Hudson

Re: What I meant by furigana codes

2000-07-01 Thread John Hudson
ssue, unless you feel that there is some need to indicate Ruby/Furigana in plain text. At some point, plain text ceases to be plain if you decide that layout information needs to be encoded. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks Vancouver, BC www.tiro.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What I meant by furigana codes

2000-07-02 Thread John Hudson
about this. For instance, could the RUBY element and the OT ruby layout feature be used for the tonal annotations for Ge'ez texts? In any case, Furigana is definitely what Adobe had in mind when they registered the ruby feature, as is evident from the feature description. John Hudson Tiro

Re: The real problem?

2000-07-02 Thread John Hudson
is whether there is a real need to encode furigana in plain text? I don't know, and I would certainly be interested to hear the views of some Japanese users. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks Vancouver, BC www.tiro.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Difference between EM QUAD and EM SPACE

2000-07-08 Thread John Hudson
living and dead will smile on you. Amen. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks Vancouver, BC www.tiro.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Announcement : Independent Font Technology Forum, Leipzig

2000-08-14 Thread John Hudson
INDEPENDENT FONT TECHNOLOGY FORUM Leipzig 2000 : Focus on OpenType Tools Support Sponsored and organised by Tiro Typeworks, in association with ATypI Thursday September 21, 10:00 to 16:00 Konsum Building, ATypI Conference Site, Leipzig * The Independent Font Technology Forum is an optional

Re: Tamil glyphs

2000-09-12 Thread John Hudson
tags might be useful, and henced used. Certainly, we need be clear about what is being tagged -- script variants, orthographic variants or language specific practices --, so as to avoid the kind of inconsistencies that exist in ISO 639. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks A man was meant to be doub

Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-13 Thread John Hudson
originally designed for other purposes. It is also a lot more useful than, for instance, trying to forcefully align OpenType LangSys tags with ISO 639 codes, as has been suggested simply because the latter is a STANDARD, when it is far from clear that the two indicate the same kind of information. J

Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-13 Thread John Hudson
with. :) John Hudson Tiro Typeworks A man was meant to be doubtful about Vancouver, BC himself, but undoubting about the truth; www.tiro.comthis has been exactly reversed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] G.K. Chesterton

Re: Tagging orthographic systems (was: (iso639.186) the

2000-09-13 Thread John Hudson
the kind of information that is recorded in ISO 639. They are certainly more useful if you actually need codes that distinguish different orthographies, rather than simply languages abstracted from all actual language use. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks A man was meant to be doubtful about

Re: Tagging orthographic systems (was: (iso639.186) the

2000-09-13 Thread John Hudson
, that is, information about how a language is used. My point is that the ISO639 codes and the Ethnologue codes are abtracted from particular language usage, and it is the particular usage that most often needs to be indicated. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks A man was meant to be doubtful about

Independent Font Technology Forum : Programme (short form)

2000-09-14 Thread John Hudson
und Museum fur Druckkunst (Printing Museum), Nonnenstrasse 38. Coffee at the Konsum Leipzig Zentrale. 10:00 - 10:05 AM Introduction and Welcome. John Hudson, Tiro Typeworks, Canada. 10:05 - 11:00 AM Microsoft Visual OpenType Layout Tool 1.0 demonstration

Independent Font Technology Forum : Programme (short form)

2000-09-14 Thread John Hudson
und Museum fur Druckkunst (Printing Museum), Nonnenstrasse 38. Coffee at the Konsum Leipzig Zentrale. 10:00 - 10:05 AM Introduction and Welcome. John Hudson, Tiro Typeworks, Canada. 10:05 - 11:00 AM Microsoft Visual OpenType Layout Tool 1.0 demonstration

Is this in Unicode?

2000-10-11 Thread John Hudson
by identifying this glyph and telling me if it is a Unicode character (and which one, please). I have put a small graphic online at http://www.tiro.com/transfer/thing.gif Note that the dashed lines in the graphic are not part of the glyph, they indicate baseline and sidebearings. Many thanks, John

RE: Myanmar Script (1000-109F)

2000-10-20 Thread John Hudson
implementation, see my article at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/opentype/default.htm which includes some Devanagari and Arabic examples. Shaping behaviour for Burmese has not been added to Uniscribe yet. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | A man was meant to be doubtful about

Re: Greek Prosgegrammeni

2000-11-08 Thread John Hudson
in the intervening five hundred years. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. www.tiro.com | W.B. Yeats [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: Open-Type Support (was: Greek Prosgegrammeni)

2000-11-22 Thread John Hudson
. It is unfortunately true that, if smart rendering were necessary to process German and French, it would have been a priority many years ago. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. www.tiro.com

Re: Greek Diacritics Again

2000-11-23 Thread John Hudson
m advocated by Gerry and his colleagues in Greece. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. www.tiro.com | W.B. Yeats [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: Greek Diacritics Again

2000-11-27 Thread John Hudson
but, as can be seen from the graphic, it is not vertical. John Hudson PS: I just noticed that I still have another graphic online, comparing the tonos to the Latin acute accent in my Heidelberg Gothic design. I suppose this dates from the last time we had this discussion on the Unicode list :) http

Re: boustrophedon more current, not ancient?

2000-12-21 Thread John Hudson
rstand you. Also, can you cite specific books that include examples of this 'vertical boustrephedon'. Many thanks, John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. www.tiro.com | W.B. Yeats [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: anyone recognise this?

2001-01-22 Thread John Hudson
lic, but I have little sense of its handwritten forms. Yes, looks like handwritten Cyrillic to me, but I can't identify all the characters and I don't think it is Russian. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. ww

Re: Implementing Complex Unicode Scripts

2001-02-20 Thread John Hudson
for this, and without higher level tools I doubt if many of them will ever make AAT fonts. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. www.tiro.com | W.B. Yeats [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate

2001-02-20 Thread John Hudson
At 09:05 AM 2/20/2001 -0800, Antoine Leca wrote: (In French, sans serif is normally named "antique" Which must be very confusing to Germans and others who use 'antiqua' to distinguish seriffed humanists types from blackletter. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC

Re: Implementing Complex Unicode Scripts

2001-02-20 Thread John Hudson
new font tools probably isn't something we can expect them to be doing this week). John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. www.tiro.com | W.B. Yeats [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate

2001-02-20 Thread John Hudson
ist on is that we maintain the distinction between Roman and roman. I wonder though, Peter, about your suggestion that '"Latin script" is less acceptable since "Latin" suggests something constrained to the language Latin'. Couldn't the same thing be said about 'Arabic script'?

Re: What about musical notation?

2001-02-22 Thread John Hudson
-- the only surviving examples of counter punches in a public collection are for music types: two small but very important pieces steel at the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. www.tiro.com

Re: Javascript Chart

2001-03-06 Thread John Hudson
succeed in getting Marco's chart to display with the Unicode 3.0 version of Monotype's Andale Mono by changing the line var fontName = "Arial Unicode MS"; to var fontName = "Andale Mono WT J"; John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver automobilists switche

Re: Javascript Chart

2001-03-06 Thread John Hudson
At 11:15 AM 3/6/2001 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: var fontName = "Andale Mono WT J"; That was exactly the same change I made. Can you display Yi or Ethiopic characters? Yes, no problem. JH Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. www.tiro.com

Re: Vulgar fractions. was Re: Microsoft Word Query

2001-03-20 Thread John Hudson
/VOLT_Fractions_Feature_(Tiro).EXE This is a self-extracting zip file that includes VOLT glyph group and lookup definition files and documentation. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | 'The only visible damage to most villages had been Vancouver, BC | the inevitable sack of the post office

Re: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

2001-04-15 Thread John Hudson
is on the way. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Girls who wonder ou est la bibliotheque Vancouver, BC | make me go all googly. www.tiro.com | - Dean Allen, textism.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: FW: Learn more about Windows XP's international features

2001-04-16 Thread John Hudson
ing for MS Typography: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/opentype/default.htm This is an introduction to and overview of OpenType, Uniscribe and the OpenType Layout Services Library. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks Vancouver, BC www.tiro.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Characters not Glyphs (Was Re: Reviewing IETF documents)

2001-04-17 Thread John Hudson
e they have them from a common source. John Hudson (who always distinguishes his 1's from his l's, but never his o's from his omicrons) Tiro Typeworks | Girls who wonder ou est la bibliotheque Vancouver, BC | make me go all googly. www.tiro.com | -

Re: Hacking the pyramids (Re: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits o f unicode))

2001-04-18 Thread John Hudson
nberg went bankrupt and saw his technology taken by his financiers, Fust and Schoeffer, who invented the publishing industry and became very wealthy. Somewhere in that relationship is a business plan. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Girls who wonder ou est la bibliotheque Van

RE: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

2001-04-18 Thread John Hudson
right. I think Marco is interpreting 'mapping' to include mapping via glyph-to-glyph-to-character lookups (indirect mapping). However, since the original comment defined mapped glyphs as 'assigned to code points', it is pretty obvious that the author meant direct mapping. John Hudson Tiro

Re: Arabic based alphabets

2001-06-09 Thread John Hudson
of this form? Thanks. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | www.tiro.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: 19th Unicode Conference, September 2001, San Jose, CA, USA

2001-06-11 Thread John Hudson
as possible in future. I suspect my colleagues on the font end of things who attend both conferences would also like a little more breathing space between events. Thank you. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | www.tiro.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: New acquisition

2001-06-11 Thread John Hudson
. R. Sopwith, the Public Trustee, in accordance to the terms of Shaw's will. My copy has a letter dated 1962-11-20 from C. R. Sopwith to the Lord Bledislow, to whom this copy was originally presented. Well, my copy is inscribed to Androcles from the Lion, so there! John Hudson Tiro Typeworks

Re: RE: First of many newbie questions

2001-06-17 Thread John Hudson
an OpenType lookup to make it impossible for a user to type more than one ! in a row. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks | Vancouver, BC | www.tiro.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: FW: Arabic font Crisis!!!!!

2001-06-25 Thread John Hudson
, and to other OpenType/TrueType related developer tools and information are at: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/creators.htm John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are sheep in the field. 'I know what they are,' she says, 'but I don't

Re: Slovenian and Croat letters

2001-07-02 Thread John Hudson
that contain these characters. I made some last year, for a Croatian publisher, but using custom 8-bit encoded Type 1 fonts, not Unicode. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are sheep in the field. 'I know what they are,' she says

Re: Native font format

2001-07-27 Thread John Hudson
of broad support, is OpenType. An OpenType font has a TrueType table structure, but can contain either TrueType or PostScript glyph outline data. For more information, see http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/opentype/default.htm John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver

RE: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

2001-08-01 Thread John Hudson
language distinct from Tundra Nenets, or if it had an established user community. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are sheep in the field. 'I know what they are,' she says, 'but I don't know what they are called.' Thus Wittgenstein

Re: Opentype support under Liunx

2001-08-17 Thread John Hudson
is. If you want to contact me off-list, I can put you in touch with them. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are sheep in the field. 'I know what they are,' she says, 'but I don't know what they are called.' Thus Wittgenstein is routed

Anouncement: ATypI Font Technology Forum, Copenhagen

2001-09-06 Thread John Hudson
brought under the umbrella of the Association Typographique Internationale, and this year's forum is being organised as an initiative of the newly resurrected ATypI Technology Committee (co-chairs John Hudson and Wm Ross Mills). The focus of this year's forum is 'Building International Fonts

Re: [OT] What happened to the OpenType list?

2001-09-26 Thread John Hudson
The OpenType list is still active, although there has not been much discussion for the past couple of weeks. See the Microsoft Typography website -- www.microsoft.com/typography -- for subscription information. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL

Re: Cyrillic Q

2001-09-27 Thread John Hudson
that are, as far as I know, unique to Kurdish: U+0051, U+0071 Capital, Small Q U+0057, U+077 Capital, Small W John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand

Re: WHITE and BLACK SHOGI PIECEs

2001-10-01 Thread John Hudson
. By the way, if there are any shogi players on the list, I can bring my travel board to the next Unicode conference in San Jose. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand

RE: [OT] What happened to the OpenType list?

2001-10-01 Thread John Hudson
, and there may have been a need to resubscribe -- I don't recall. For subscription information, see http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/otlist.htm Regards, John John Hudson Tiro Typeworkswww.tiro.com Vancouver, BC[EMAIL PROTECTED] Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand

Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001

2001-10-02 Thread John Hudson
developer. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand. - Harry Carter

Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001

2001-10-05 Thread John Hudson
does your solution, and letters that fail to ligate when you switch fonts is a better result than .notdef boxes. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand

Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

2001-10-23 Thread John Hudson
believe) is the preferred form for both the upper and lowercase L. I have seen Slovak texts that use the regular caron/hacek form for the uppercase L, but most display the apostrophe form. I agree that a note would be handy. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC

Re: Inuktitut, Cree, Ojibwe input methods?

2001-10-29 Thread John Hudson
to Unicode. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Afghan warlord kills own troops, sells drugs, plays with dead goats - and he's on our side. National Post headline Friday

Re: No proper representation of Devnagari in Unicode

2001-11-01 Thread John Hudson
). The full-form glyphs that are used to represent consonant characters in the Unicode charts are simpy representative of the abstract character and do not imply that this specific form only is encoded. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] I see

Re: ISCII-Unicode Conversion

2001-11-06 Thread John Hudson
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, John H. Jenkins wrote: On Tuesday, November 6, 2001, at 09:41 AM, Michael Everson wrote: John Jenkins said: Ah, but you should never underestimate the power of the Force. Remember that the IRG is *already* looking to adding some 60,000 ideographs for Extension

Re: Re: What constitutes character? New Problem

2001-11-10 Thread John Hudson
of consecutive characters on output. I think mean ZWNJ (Zero Width Non Joiner) if you wish to prevent the joining of consecutive characters on output. Regarding the data sorting issue you raised, I believe the ZWNJ should be ignored in all data sorting: it is a formatting control character. John Hudson

RE: Compelling Unicode demo

2001-11-16 Thread John Hudson
when it encounters an Arabic website? John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] I see this guy named Typography in the shower one morning, the lightning bolt of epiphany striking as he rubs the suds from his eyes, 'That's It! I'll redefine myself

RE: Indic editing (was: RE: The real solution)

2001-11-27 Thread John Hudson
-- to step back and then continue my train of thought -- than to interrupt my thought to select an individiual character. I don't think efficiency in input can necessarily be measured by number of keystrokes. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Comments on FCD 5218, Codes for the representation of human sexes

2001-11-29 Thread John Hudson
to propagate the counter-myth or anti-myth, i.e. spread the word that the French do, in fact, employ uppercase accented letters. My French colleagues would appreciate this. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches

Re: ZWJ and Turkish

2001-10-10 Thread John Hudson
Standard Ligatures liga feature: f+i = fi ligature The nice thing about the ZWNJ is that I do not need to include lookups for it: it automatically breaks ligatures just by existing in the text string! John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL

RE: sample text ok?

2001-10-10 Thread John Hudson
confusingly, the Unicode glyph charts show the alternate form at U+0647, and the typical form at U+FEE9. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand

ZWJ+ZWNJ+ZWJ (Was: ZWJ and Turkish)

2001-10-10 Thread John Hudson
group, who should be able to comment on this. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand. - Harry Carter

RE: sample text ok?

2001-10-10 Thread John Hudson
on the initial form, but I have seen a number of typefaces in which it is designed as a separate, variant glyph, the usual characteristic of which is that the left connecting stroke of the initial form is truncated. I've attached a small graphic showing the five forms. John Hudson 5heh.gif

RE: ZWJ+ZWNJ+ZWJ (Was: ZWJ and Turkish)

2001-10-10 Thread John Hudson
help if Roozbeh explained why he sees this as a problem. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand. - Harry Carter

RE: ZWJ+ZWNJ+ZWJ (Was: ZWJ and Turkish)

2001-10-11 Thread John Hudson
Uniscribe do anything with such a combination? John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand. - Harry Carter

Re: sample text ok?

2001-10-12 Thread John Hudson
intimately. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type is something that you can pick up and hold in your hand. - Harry Carter

Re: Are these characters encoded?

2001-12-01 Thread John Hudson
ten thousands? Neither X̅ nor X̄ are displayed properly! The lines above and below are stylistic variant roman numerals and, like the Swedish ampersand, they can be handled at the font level. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist

Re: Are these characters encoded?

2001-12-02 Thread John Hudson
a case for encoding the 'och' ampersand, I think you will need to demonstate a need to distinguish it from the regular ampersand in plain text documents. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der

Re: Are these characters encoded?

2001-12-02 Thread John Hudson
it is best for this sign to be encoded or not. What might be the impact on Swedish keyboard drivers? Is the intention that a new och sign character should replace the ampersand character in Swedish text processing, or should both be used? What is the impact on existing documents? John Hudson Tiro

Re: Are these characters encoded?

2001-12-02 Thread John Hudson
that's not (far) worse than just adding it by itself. Indeed. If it is not suitable to treat the och sign as a variant form of the ampersand, it would be better to give it its own codepoint rather than try to unify it with some other character(s) that would require more convoluted rendering. John

Re: Plane One use, was Re: HTML Validation

2001-12-16 Thread John Hudson
plane characters. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich nicht in ihm gemeint erkannte. ... every image of the past

Re: Plane One use, was Re: HTML Validation

2001-12-16 Thread John Hudson
surrogates in font ligature lookups, and I wanted to make sure that the notion didn't spread. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich

Re: Question

2002-01-15 Thread John Hudson
At 18:26 1/15/2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote: And you don't *install* Unicode. Wouldn't it be nice if it was that easy! John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder Gegenwart

Re: Fontlab 4.0, Opentype and supplementary characters

2002-01-23 Thread John Hudson
has any additional comment. If lots of people request support for supplementary character encoding, he will probably be encouraged to add it. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das

Re: Issues with Unicode Hindi

2002-01-24 Thread John Hudson
scheduled to make a presentation on this subject at the Unicode conference in San Jose in September. I didn't make it to the conference, because my flight was cancelled due to the WTC attack, and I don't know whether this presentation took place. Anyone? John Hudson Tiro Typeworks

Re: [OT] Rich man Bill (RE: Issues with Unicode Hindi)

2002-01-24 Thread John Hudson
At 10:44 1/24/2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote: I have been told that this mailing list is not for politics, so let's stick to bare logics: 1. we rob the poor man because he is poor 2. we rob the poor man because he is rich 3. we rob the rich man because he is poor 4. we rob the rich man because he

Re: Unicode 3.2: BETA files updated

2002-01-24 Thread John Hudson
As Unicode continues to grow, I wonder if we can expect another book-- or multiple volumes -- at some stage, or if the standard will become a purely electronic document? Has any decision been taken about this? John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL

Re: Fontlab 4.0, Opentype and supplementary characters

2002-01-25 Thread John Hudson
PROTECTED]. Thanks. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich nicht in ihm gemeint erkannte. ... every image of the past

Re: Problems with viewing Hindi Unicode Page

2002-01-25 Thread John Hudson
At 12:56 1/25/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The version of Arial Unicode MS on my system does have layout tables for Devanagari. I don't know with what product this version was introduced to my system -- I've got Win2K, IE5.5 and Office XP. Interesting. What's the file date on that font? John

RE: Unicode 3.2: BETA files updated

2002-01-25 Thread John Hudson
weaker than it should be for a book this size, and 1500 pages is going to make this more of an issue. Thanks. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder Gegenwart zu

Re: POSITIVELY MUST READ! Bytext is here!

2002-01-25 Thread John Hudson
eerily identical absence of industry support. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich nicht in ihm gemeint erkannte. ... every

Re: Problems with viewing Hindi Unicode Page

2002-01-26 Thread John Hudson
support, only Unicode cmap entries. Since Windows 9x relies on codepage support for text encoding, such fonts can cause problems. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder

Additional Ethiopic characters?

2002-01-26 Thread John Hudson
What is the status of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 N1846, the Proposal to encode Ethiopic Extensions in the BMP...? I see that (Eth.Ext.) is included in the BMP roadmap, but don't see any other information on the Unicode site. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC

OT: Re: MISTER YUCK

2002-01-28 Thread John Hudson
At 10:55 1/28/2002, Rick McGowan wrote: Mr YuK is a logo put out by the National Capital Poison Center. Maybe I was just a perverse kid, but if I'd seen this logo on a bottle I would have taken it as a challenge: like being offered kimchee with a warning that I wouldn't like it. John Hudson

Re: Shamrock

2002-01-29 Thread John Hudson
symbol. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich nicht in ihm gemeint erkannte. ... every image of the past that is not recognized

Re: Questions about Unicode history

2002-01-30 Thread John Hudson
in Windows apps that use Uniscribe for text processing, and I believe the FreeType developers have also been working on Indic shaping although I am not sure if this has been released yet. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein

Re: When to use markup: (Was:Introducing the idea of a ROMAN VARIANT SELECTOR (was: Re: Proposing Fraktur))

2002-02-03 Thread John Hudson
availability issues have anything to do with Unicode. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich nicht in ihm gemeint erkannte

Re: When to use markup: (Was:Introducing the idea of a ROMAN VARIANT SELECTOR (was: Re: Proposing Fraktur))

2002-02-03 Thread John Hudson
, the italic function is disabled if an italic font is not available. There is a separate control for slanting text, but it is not possible to accidentally produce a sloped roman in the absence of an italic font. This is how it should be. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC

Re: Variation selectors for narrow/wide EastAsian glyphs

2002-02-05 Thread John Hudson
currency symbols. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich nicht in ihm gemeint erkannte. ... every image of the past

Re: Unicode and Security

2002-02-07 Thread John Hudson
encoding standard, b) still be facing all the remaining security holes in all the remaining software standards and applications, and c) have done nothing to combat user ignorance and gullibility just waiting to be taken advantage of. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC

Re: Unicode and Security

2002-02-07 Thread John Hudson
'no Unicode' policies in order to protect against spoofing (despite that fact that many alternative character encodings would leave them equally vulnerable). I think it is far more likely that companies would introduce compulsory e-mail encryption and signing. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks

Re: Unicode and Security

2002-02-07 Thread John Hudson
and there are laws to protect against such 'spoofing' and to punish those who perpetrate it. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die

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

2002-02-08 Thread John Hudson
range is, well, arbitrary. I seem to recall that this approach is approved by your colleagues in the MS type group, but would be interested to know if your opinion, as an MS app developer, differed. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es

Re: Off-Topic (Re: This spoofing and security thread)

2002-02-13 Thread John Hudson
Void_. Perec also wrote a much shorter work in which 'e' is the only vowel used. This has not been translated. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder Gegenwart zu

RE: Sami

2002-02-18 Thread John Hudson
in translation, tend to identify a greater number of dialects than those attempting to record the broad patterns of language use. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder

Re: FW: list of abbreviated character names

2002-02-19 Thread John Hudson
Note that these rules were revised last year to provide a mechanism for naming characters from the supplementary planes using 32-bit scalar values. This revision has not yet been made to the online document. (Eric, can you provide any indication on when this document will be updated?) John

RE: ISO 3166 (country codes) Maintenance Agency Web pages move

2002-02-25 Thread John Hudson
and persecution of the Rom is a long-standing Romanian tradition: one of the few constants of the country's political scene. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit jeder

Re: Stability in standards

2002-02-25 Thread John Hudson
regulations. This explains quite a lot. I imagine many Romanians would object to carrying passports that identified them as Rom (gypsies). John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit, das mit

Well off-topic, Was: ISO 3166 (country codes) Maintenance Agency Web pages move

2002-03-01 Thread John Hudson
. There is a booklet available that maps the sestiere numbering to actual locations. I'm not sure, but I think it might be available from the post office in Venice. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild

Re: fj ligature [Re: Devanagari variations]

2002-03-06 Thread John Hudson
to identify it is part of the surrounding text. The former is a typographic and font issue, while the latter is a text processing issue and may be an encoding issue. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der

Re: Devanagari enthousiasm!

2002-03-06 Thread John Hudson
require 8-bit codepage support and there are no MS codepages for Indic scripts. This is why MS Mangal, the Hindi UI font that ships with Windows 2000 and XP is not licensed for use on older versions of the OS. John Hudson Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL

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