Re: Looking up han characters

28L;56L;84L;112L;140L;168L;196L;224L;252L;280L;308L;336L;Rampshot asked... > How do I look up a han character if I don't know its codepoint? > What if all I have is its shape, or its EUC-JP or Shift-JIS number? > There are a couple I want to see. The people at Sanseido have just now made it

Re: Furigana codes?

Will someone PLEASE send this boy a book!? iRck Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 02:49:30 -0800 (GMT-0800) To: Unicode List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Furigana codes? X-UML-Sequence: 14481 (2000-07-01 10:49:31 GMT) Are there

Re: Euro character in ISO

There are lots of Unixes: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/unix.html How many of them have an iconv function? rangda 47: man iconv man: no entry for iconv in the manual. rangda 48: cat /etc/motd Welcome to Darwin! rangda 49: well, hmmm... zsh: command not found: well, rangda 50:

Re: Emoticons

BTW, did anyone get the smileys right at the first sight? --roozbeh Yes, the mail viewer here supports UTF-8. Therefore, I saw two glyphs from Apple's "Last Resort" font which tells me that I don't have any other installed font capable of displaying the smiley faces... Bummer. :-( (BTW, I

Re: 127 strokes beyond the radical?!

I do not suppose that characters of 128+ strokes are indeed possible, due to the fact that the paper would get quite soggy from the repeated strokes. Well, if they get soggy on little paper just write 'em on bigger paper! In any case, your supposition is not adequately informed. For

Cimarosti's FAQ Tao

Would anyone like to please translate that into Chinese for the benefit of future generations? Rick 1) The UTF whose bits can be counted is not the eternal UTF.

Re: Addition of remaining two Maltese Characters to Unicode

OK - Is there any currently available solution that permits the unique Maltese characters 'gh' and 'ie' to be represented? But... you already use "gh" and "ie" digraphs to represent these letters of the alphabet, and if you have any software capable of processing the data, then it must be

Re: Braille rendering of Unicode [OT 50%]

Marco said: These are at most the building blocks for braille. A better parallel would be to consider these "presentation glyphs" for braille. (But I think that the main reason why these patterns are in Unicode is to encode runs of braille-looking characters in didactic texts for *sighted*

Re: Mixing alphabets (was: sorting my CD collection)

I bet few things would be rarer than, say, a Georgian female rap CD in the US!! Tobacco chewing killer whales in Picadilly Circus, surely. Would somebody PLEASE tell me, IN THE DEFAULT UNICODE COLLATION ALGORITHM, WHAT COMES AFTER WHAT?! Read the technical report! (It's available

Re: IUC 17 Related Announcement

Mark said... If some noble soul volunteers to act as a sports reporter, I'm sure we can work up something. It's probably a bit much to web-cam it, but that may come in the future. Well wait a minute!... If someone posts the answers, then we can't re-use the same questions next year!

Re: Tamil glyphs

Erik Lindberg asked... Unicode seems to suggest using the combination: 0BA3+0BBE (NNA+AA). However the resulting representation of the digraph is not the one found in literature. What system are you running on? Whose font? Which application(s)? There are other characters too in the Tamil

Re: Tamil glyphs

"Michael (michka) Kaplan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, Apurva just did explain it and since she comes from a typography background she did explain how the whole problem can be handled via fonts. :-) Yes, thanks. I saw the explanation after... However, it cannot currently be

Re: the Ethnologue

Oh Michael... I think there are codes given to entities in the Ethnologue list that aren't languages in the sense that we need to identify languages in IT and in Bibliography ISO 639, and every other "standard" for language/locale codes also has this problem, and from what I remember of the

Re: the Ethnologue

Re the Linguasphere, Peter C wrote: - As Chris mentioned, the info isn't available online. Actually, the Linguasphere is available on-line, if you pay for it... One hundred sixty pounds sterling (two hundred seventy-five US dollars) for a license to use the electronic version. Rick

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

Otto Stolz wrote: I think, the ethnologue lacks information about variant orthographies. Yes, it does. But that's OK, because we can make a composite tagging system that tags orthography separately from language. So... does anyone have a comprehensive list of orthographies? Rick

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

Tom Emerson wrote: One (well, the only) problem I have with explicit orthographic tagging is that it makes assumptions that a consistent orthography is being used throughout a document, which isn't necessarily the case. This is particularly prevalent in East Asian languages: Well, the tags

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

My point is that for some languages there is no single orthography that can ever be nailed down. Yes of course. But there's nothing to prevent the development of a system of orthographic tags, and nothing to prevent combining orthographic tags with language tags for complete mix-and-match

Re: ISO European characters in Unicode?

Where have you erred? That page isn't encoded in UTF-8! Setting your browser to interpret the page as UTF-8 won't work if the page isn't in UTF-8. The page appears to be in 8859-1, but doesn't actually say... I would have figured that Yahoo would have charset headers, but I don't see one

Re: Is this in Unicode?

Yup, I think Otto is right... Just nodding my agreement with the trend... 2311 Square Lozenge Best wishes, Otto Stolz

Re: Mac support of UCAS in Unicode 3.0

The only exception I am aware of to this rule is the OmniWeb application which runs only on Mac OS X. One dis-advantage of OmniWeb, by the way, for international use, is that it requires that you set (in a preference panel) the encoding it uses for pages that it renders; it doesn't know

Re: Number separators

Mike Ayers wrote: I am aware that there are European languages (swiss and italian?) that group four digits, and am reasonably sure that japanese does. Japanese? I don't think so. Rick

Re: Devanagari question

1. Is a halant/virama ever valid following other than a consonant (or consonant and nukta)? Legal? In the sense of "any string is legal", yes; as is anything else. The implementation question to answer is whether it's useful or renderable, and if so, how. The independent vowel followed by

Lakota (was Re: OT: Devanagari question)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, there's no corresponding LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG, which Lakota needs. To my knowledge, the discussion in September between John Cowan and Curtis Clark didn't terminate with any actual proposal, and I'm not clear on whether the above

RE: Devanagari question

Mike Ayers wrote: The last I knew, computer-savvy Taiwan and Hong Kong were continuing to invent new characters. In the end, the onus is on the computer to support the user. Yes, the computer should support the user, but... The invention of new characters to serve multitudes is OK, and

Fwd: Kana and Case (was [totally OT] Unicode terminology)

For what it's worth, in this oh-so-important discussion... I have seen this length mark used with both Katakana and Hiragana (I suppose that puts me in the good company of 'Leven Digit Boy, only he can prove it and I can't). Call the usage nonce or whatever... So what? It would be fair to

Re: Fwd: Kana and Case (was [totally OT] Unicode terminology)

The Venerable Dr Whistler wrote: I'm sure there is, but I can't lay hands on it right at the moment. It's sitting in a box in the basement somewhere. Uh... He probably meant to write: "Yes, it's right here ahem as you can see from Diagram 7, it's part of the thin banded layer right above

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

Everson opined: But I suspect he didn't write it. It looks very much like the kind of thing an enthusiastic second-year university student would write as a term paper. If Alain wrote that diatribe, he should have said so to avoid any such questions. Otherwise, it should not have been

Re: bidi or multi algorithm?

Elaine... Quick reply, sorry. I should be more verbose, but I hope others can chime in. Is Unicode's so-called "bidi algorithm" really bidirectional, that is, does it govern horizontal text layout in right-to-left and left-to- right languages? Yes. Or is "bidi" a metaphor here, for

Re: boustrophedon more current, not ancient?

Elain wrote: Chinese and Japanese newspapers are still mostly written in a vertical, frequently right-to-left, boustrophedon. No, not exactly. They don't go "as the ox plows", and it is entirely improper to utilize the term "boustrophedon" to refer to them. They are written in columns,

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

The question that I keep asking is who wrote this missive, and if Alain didn't write it, where did he get it? That's the most basic question I had. Rick

Re: Klingon silliness

Let me throw my light weight in with John O'Conner... It's silly to even consider Klingon for Unicode or 10646. Many members of both committees know this, and that's why it hasn't moved anywhere in several years. The question keeps cropping up because that silly proposal is still "on the

Web Application with UTF8 support

thejokrishna wrote: Hi all, Can you please point out web applications which entirely support UTF-8? i.e an application which takes Unicode characters as input, stores them in a database and retrieves them. Please see the Unicode web pages. There is a lot of information about applications

Re: Klingon silliness

"G. Adam Stanislav" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... I believe there are other *human* scripts that need to be encoded in Unicode before Klingon (is Mayan encoded yet, for example?). I sympathise with the general sense here, but Mayan isn't a great example. Mayan is dead, as are many other

Re: Latin digraph characters (was: Re: Klingon silliness)

It has always been my impression that the dz and other digraphs were included ONLY because they existed in standards that were used as source material by the Unicode designers. Such digraphs would not have been encoded otherwise. Rick Adam mentions the Latin digraphs encoded for

Re: Musical Notation 3.1

P. Andries asked: 1) Where is the Gregorian punctum (square dot) ? Is it unified with another dot, another shaped note (U+1D147) ? If so, why ? I am double-checking, but I believe it's unified. I'll have more info later. 2) How would a triplet (a group of three notes to be performed in

Re: Square and lozenge notes -- Musical Notation 3.1 -- Mensuralnotation

Lukas P said: I'd be interested to learn the rationale behind these choices. Is the original proposal available anywhere? Try: http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/dmmc/Music/UnicodeMusic/ That's Perry Roland's original proposal, with a lot of examples. I'm not sure you'll get much

Re: Square and lozenge notes -- Musical Notation 3.1 --Mensuralnotation

Why are the punctum and semi-brevis unified with U+1D147 and U+1D1BA since, unless I err, they do not share the same value but only a visual similarity Well... the rationale for that would be the same thing that unifies the "." in "3.14" and "Mr. Fung". However, in this case, it's true,

Re: Unicode complaints

Markus complained: Thai is not stored/used in logical order in Unicode. Here's my contribution to the FAQ about Thai: Q. Why isn't Thai stored/used in logical order in Unicode? A. Once upon a time, the Unicode fore-parents inherited the Thai industrial standard, which is an 8-bit standard

Re: RE: The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0

Mike wrote: In particular step 5 should be made required instead optional. Eh? And deprive the committees of the pleasure of endlessly debating the one true shape of the unspecified glyph??? Rick

Re: Iranian Rial sign proposal

Roozbeh asked... Would you please give me the reference? I once heard this, but after seeing a new proposal for "Arabic Tail Fragment" approved by UTC to be encoded in "Arabic Presentation Forms-B" block (SC2/WG2 document N2322), I thought I was wrong. That proposal and this follow-on

Re: Iranian Rial sign proposal

Roozebeh wrote... Oh, I just found it! It's also encoded as a character in the national standard ISIRI 2900, dated 1989 (which is a 7-bit character set standard). I will update the proposal. So you can be sure that you have not disobeyed the rules ;) Oh good! Nice bit of research...! This

Re: Egyptian Hieroglyphics

users who have the most interest vested in the encoding are the scholars themselves (and they are saying the state of the art prevents a useable encoding at the time) I don't think it's all scholars who have objected to the Egyptian proposal. But this is a case where there appears to be no

Re: On the possibility of guidance code points for the PrivateUse Area

Doug Ewell quoted: By convention, the Private Use Area is divided into a Corporate Use subarea, starting at U+F8FF and extending downward in values, and an End User subarea, starting at U+E000 and extending upward. Then Michael Everson wrote: This has nothing to do with ISO/IEC 10646. Who

Re: three characters?

1. The first one is an Arabic Subscript Alef, I thought we had that one... but I don't find it among the Koranic annotations. 3. The most weird of all, was that after finding all the dingbats and weird shapes, one was missing: a White Square Containing White Small Square (compare with

Re: Tags and the Private Use Area

There has been a lot of recent discussion about various uses of the PUA. Can someone point to widespread instances of confusion and chaos right now over PUA usage? I don't think there is any. It seems to me there's a lot of effort being expended to engineer the regulation of something that

Re: Provenance of the Unicode Standard and of statements

William Overington wrote... So, when Ken states the sentence above, is that Ken writing as a private individual ... or Ken writing as a Technical Director ... ... there exists scope for considerable confusion as to the provenance of a statement made on this list where members of the unicode

Re: RE: Tags and the Private Use Area

Peter said: 2. How do I get software X to know how to process my PUA characters, or how do I document my characters for others to understand my data? Michael replied... In principle it would work, if the OSes are being written to handle user editing of such things. Ten euros sez they ain't.

Re: RE: Word, Asian characters, and Arial Unicode

Marco Cimarosti wrote: East Asian Width is a property that tells whether or not each Unicode character should have the same typographical width as a CJK ideograph. The property may be yes, no, or a few different kinds of maybe. Whoa, wait... Whether or not you care at all about the East

Re: Unicode font

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Re: ISO vs Unicode UTF-8 (was RE: UTF-8 signature in web and email)

Some people said things like... There was another abomination proposed. I was choosing not to mention the abominable. The abominable steam-rollers of history squish those who don't scream and run; and the few weak survivors are forever cleaning up the resulting messes. If you think

Re: UTF-32s

So I suggest to correct the problem before it came out. And I would like to propose UTF-32s. I think this has been anticipated, I think by some people who proposed UTF-8S. My opinion, for what it's worth, is that there should be no new formats. We have too many of them already, and making

Re: Compression - binary ordered

The main difference from SCSU is that this method preserves binary order. Ah. And which binary order does it preserve? The right one, or the other one? ;-) Rick

Re: UTF-8 Syntax

Toby, I think you forgot to comment on these objections that have also been coming up from time to time: * Introduction of UTF-8S would merely add to the myriad forms people would already have to support, and it is insufficiently distinuguishable from UTF-8. * encoding ambiguities in the

Lushootseed

Hi Bev -- Does anyone know if the Lushootseed language is included in Unicode? I searched but could not find it if you have an URL could you please send.   Thanks in advance. AS others will no doubt tell you, this standard encodes _characters_ used for writing, it doesn't encode

Re: UTF-16 problems

Michael Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... asking for a lavicious license to be lecherously lazy Parse error at lavicious. No such word appears in any English dictionary I own, not even the OED. Rick

RE: XML Blueberry Requirements

I only have one question. What do blueberries have to do with XML? Rick

Re: How does Python Unicode treat surrogates?

Gaute B Strokkenes wrote... [I'm cc:-ing the unicode list to make sure that I've gotten my terminology right, and to solicit comments Interesting... I just started looking at Python the other day, once I discovered it has such nice built-in Unicode support. If Python is explicitly storing

Re: [I18n-sig] Re: Unicode surrogates: just say no!

Martin v. Loewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to be unclear to many, including myself, what exactly was clarified with Unicode 3.1. Where exactly does it say that processing a six-byte two-surrogates sequence as a single character is non-conforming? It's not non-conforming, it's

Re: New characters query

I don't think there's any point in encoding 64 hexagrams; especially when we have the pieces already. Use the pieces of three and position them with a drawing program. We don't have combining thingies for putting chess pieces on board squares, either. Rick

Re: status of Jindai scripts?

Thomas Chan wrote... I'd like to ask about the encoding status of the Japanese Jindai scripts, which are mentioned in older documents[1], and until a certain point in time, versions of the Roadmap. Do you have a paper on the topic? You say over a dozen 'Jindai' scripts. What does this

Re: status of Jindai scripts?

Thank you Kay Genenz. This web page is helpful. I was not aware of any of this info. I'm not surprised they disappeared from the roadmap. Should one consider the Chinese oracle bone inscriptions (1200 BC) for entry to the unicode list? They really did exist. They are unified with the

Re: More about SCSU (was: Re: A UTF-8 based News Service)

Unfortunately, you don't hear much about SCSU, and in particular the Unicode Consortium doesn't really seem to promote it much (although they may be trying to avoid the too many UTF's syndrome). Probably that's one point. But also, SCSU is something that's a little more complicated to

Re: Is there Unicode mail out there?

Doug Ewell wrote... @š‚¶‚イ‚¢‚Á‚¿‚á‚ñš @Ž„‚͂낱‚¦‚ñ‚ç‚©‚ׂ³B Robert, please stop this. It doesn't seem to be UTF-8 (that is, I can't copy and paste it into UniPad or Windows 2000 Notepad and see anything reasonable) Eeek.. What's that? 11's comment shows up fine in my mail

Re: FW: Re: Is there Unicode mail out there?

Watashi wa loco en la cabeza Duh, well, use katakana as appropriate, use middle-dots between your foreign words, and people might get it. Rick

Re: FW: Japanese Word2000 question

Thanks to a few people who gave me the answer. I keep forgetting that there are so many multiple romanizations; I didn't try the other romanization, but was trying to type dzu (voiced tsu), and just about everything else. Thanks. By the way, in case anyone is curious... Why does anyone

Re: RE: Eudora (was: Is there Unicode mail out there?)

Carl Brown suggested: If you convert to iso-8859-1 you lose characters that is just as bad as sending Windows-1252 out as iso-8859-1. Well... If the author converts to ISO 8859-1 on the way out, the author might lose characters. If you send 1252 labelled as 8859 to the world, everyone

Re: Japanese Word2000 question

Caveat: This will only be of interest to Japanese speakers, so you can hit delete now if you're not interested. TOYOSHIMA Masayuki pointed at: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~lf4a-okjm/genkan61.htm Oh! How interesting! Exactly what I needed. The link to:

Re: How strong is rule 1?

Was such encoding done due to some historical reasons in the past? Yes. The rules for future allocation were formulated many years after thousands of questionable codepoints were already encoded in the early days. Usually, these things (presentation forms, ligatures, compatibility

Re: Annotation characters

P. Andries wrote: I'm still interested by a definition of in(-)line software (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr27/). I know what inline code or processing could be but I can't quite understand the relationship with the inline software mentioned here and processing music text. The

Re: RTF language codes

This table was generated by the Unicode group for use with TrueType and Unicode What an unfortunately worded comment. They probably mean the group of people inside MS who worked out the list of codes used by the RTF implementors. They certainly don't mean Unicode, Inc. (Does the

Korean GooGyeol (was RE: Wordprocessors in Korean)

Jungshik Shin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put up a screenshot of glyphs for GooGyeol characters included in one of fonts mentioned above at http://jshin.net/~jungshik/i18n/googyeol.png Looks to me like everything, or nearly everything, in that list is just a brush-style rendering of a

List of languages scripts

One of the questions asked most frequently is whether Unicode encodes some particular language. As most of you know, Unicode doesn't encode languages, it encodes scripts. But the thing people often most want to know is whether their language, or some other language, can be represented.

Re: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

On 07/31/2001 05:58:57 AM Kairat A. Rakhim wrote: Cherkessian, Crimean Tatar, Kumyk, Nivkh are not yet presented in the list. Peter C responded: It's my understanding that the Nivkh Cyrillic writing system requires a couple of characters that are not yet in Unicode. Can someone propose

Re: Clarifications required

Jaipal K, asked: 1) How exactly do I use the Unicode standard? That depends on what you want to do with it. In Java, characters are Unicode characters anyway, so you do nothing special. Java is a pretty good choice for an underlying language. But for basic questions about Unicode

Re: The byte

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The existence of the byte sucks. Well, I suggest therefore that you do Civilizaton a favor and incidentally leave your indelible Mark on History by devoting every waking moment of the rest of your life to stamping out the accursed byte. Rick

Re: discontent about Indic scripts and Unicode

If ISCII is still being developed does this suggest that Unicode and its ISO equivalent move too slowly? ISCII dates back to 1988 with a revision in 1990. It's not still being developed -- as far as I know, it's a stable standard that is under routine maintenance. I wonder if anyone has

DerivedAge.txt

For some reason, the following note from Mark Davis appears to have been lost in space. Rick -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 09-19-2001 15:51 From: Mark Davis/Cupertino/IBM@IBMUS Subject: DerivedAge.txt At the request of someone working with ICU, I

Re:_=?iso-8859-1?q?=FFp=EBn=EFd=EF=E4=EBr=EFs=E4b=F6v=EB

Here we go again... Before everyone goes off and starts blaming Unicode for bad rendering... When you render a combining character sequence and it doesn't look right that is not the fault of the Unicode Standard, it is the fault of your font and/or rendering software (and the people who

Re: plane business

Some brief and not complete answers follow. I'm trying to get a grasp on exactly how many planes are defined in Unicode [...] How many planes are defined in Unicode 3.1? There are 17 planes, and everything will be re-written to reflect that, eventually. Most of the planes are empty

Re: Unicode IPA chart

Anyone knows where I could find an online chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet encoded in Unicode (plain text or HTML)? Thanks in advance. _ Marco Try the charts! http://www.unicode.org/charts/ Rick

Re: Fwd: origin of term caron

James Naughton wrote... The most authoritative-sounding page on the web which I could find when I was investigating this was an article on diacritics by J. C. Wells, University College, London: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/dia/diacritics-revised.htm He writes: The term 'caron',

Re: No proper representation of Devnagari in Unicode : CORRECTION

The correct site for the Shusha font for Devnagari is http://www.bharatbhasha.com/ And by the way, that site wants Visual Basic Scripting support, so you can't view it in Netscape at all... Rick

Re: Square brackets

Nick, et al -- You mentioned: > In Classical scholarship (and I suspect, beyond it), all > four possible corner brackets are routinely used as punctuation > to delimit text in some way --- I saw your examples of these the other day in Greek text. The upper corners also occur widely. For

Re: [OT] ANN: Site about scripts

Doug Ewell wrote... Cyrillic was created as a better way to write Slavic languages, Russian in particular. Shavian and Deseret were created as better ways to write English. The former met with overwhelming success, the latter did not It's usual to bind former and latter to the closest

Re: Writing/finding a UTF8, UTF16, UTF32 converter

There is code for doing UTF8/16/32 conversions: ftp://www.unicode.org/Public/PROGRAMS/CVTUTF Rick

Re: Unscribe Help

Please see: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/distlist.html All the details. Rick

Re: A Cretan disk (RE: An Azeri disk)

Isn't accretion disk something that forms around a black hole?

Re: Tengwar added to Plane1 Unicode Demo Page

Tex, et al -- ... have added a Tengwar entry [...] to the Plane 1 Demo page. Woah! Hang on there! I would like to voice a shout of vehement discouragement about this sort of thing. Tex wrote it's not officially in Unicode yet -- which still means it isn't in Unicode. Making an entry in

Re: MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE-old/

At least two of the links from http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE-old/ showed empty pages (or nothing) in my browser a while ago. Oops. The entire directory APPLE-old is old and obsolete. It was just moved aside when the new files came in. It has now been removed.

Re: The benefit of a symbol for 2 pi

Robert Palais wrote: Nelson Beebe recommended it since he figured unicode 3.2 would be the make or break for getting it in use. Speaking not officially, but as someone who has been lurking around here awhile, the Unicode Technical Committee does not generally float trial balloons. In

Re: FW: XEMO Notation Font

For those that have not heard about the Unicode standard, you may want to download the pdf file that describes it at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf That isn't the first place I would say describes the encoding. That is just the final code chart and name list. (Which is, of

Re: The benefit of a symbol for 2 pi

R. Palais wrote... Which seems to make Unicode a defender of the status quo. Inaction is as political as action. We are holders of the standards for the technology for encoding symbols, and we won't admit new symbols until they are widely used... not necessarily the intent, but possibly the

Re: The benefit of a symbol for 2 pi

David Starner wrote: If the symbols in Unicode make a political statement by being there, then Unicode supports Christianity (U+2626 and others), anti-Christianity (U+FB29), Islam (U+262a), Hippies (U+262e), Communism (U+262d), and Dharma (U+2638). Ahem... Not to mention Turtles. ;-)

Re: Unicode 3.2 Beta Period Finishing

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

David Hopwood wrote: We can *guess* what the column two glyphs look like from the descriptions, I suppose, but isn't it kind of important to have images of them? Heh... Well, yeah, theoretically. We just don't have any glyphs for some of the things in column 2. The items in column 1 will

Re: Maya numerals

I would just encode the 20 numerals. However, nobody has yet come up with a comprehensive proposal, so I would defer any discussion to the point at which some expert(s) have an opinion about the script in general. Rick

Re: Has anyone looked at Laban dance notation?

Michael Everson wrote: Any candidate for encoding has to meet certain criteria. Like Klingon didn't. One of those criteria would be doable. Another would be meets user requirements. A priori rejection of things makes me nervous, though. Yeah. I agree that a priori rejection of Labanotation,

Re: RE: Unicode 3.2: BETA files updated

Ken let the cat out of the bag: Unicode 5.0 will be published on December 22, 2007... complete with a remastered Unicode hymn... It's true. We've already booked an Abbey Road studio for five days in March 2007, and we've signed 75 of the hottest young voices in the world to be in the

Re: POSITIVELY MUST READ! Bytext is here!

Unicode now has a serious competitor. Kllhk!! Kllhk!! Kllhk! Whoa! Almost choked on my tofu burger! Oh dewd, you have it so, like, all wrong... Universal character encoding isn't about Competition and Marketing, it's about everybody doin' it in the road, all together like, in love, peace,

Re: MISTER YUK

Corporations have placed his face on the product labels of hazardous materials, and publishing companies have used the symbol in textbooks and standardized tests to represent poisons. Don't get all excited yet, Michael. It says in textbooks not as a character in running text. Rick

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