On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote: > Hi Behdad,
Hello, > Glad to hear the good news. Is there anything that may impact end > users? If there is, please provide a none-technical overview of the > changes that will affect normal users of Persian text on computer. No, not really. > What I meant about U+060D is that I expected to find something about it > in /UNIDATA/PropList.txt but it wasn't there. That is the reason I > asked. Now I have figured it out. Both the applicable defaults and also > explicitly in UnicodeData.txt. Sometimes I find UCD (Unicode Character > Database) files confusing. Is there any hope they will be cleaned up > further? For example, why not explicitly include characters in all > expected places instead of relying on fallback and default properties? I'm confused now. What do you expect in PropList.txt about U+060D? If you read UCD.html, it says that files like PropList.txt just list those code points that hold a true value for the binary property. Why they don't list the all?? Why should the do? There are more than a million of them, while poins of interest are usually less than a thousand ones... behdad > - Hooman > > On Jun 24, 2004, at 12:17 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Hooman Mehr wrote: > >> > >>> Excellent news. While talking about clarifications, I couldn't find > >>> the > >>> properties for U+060D. Do you have information in this regard? > >> > >> No idea. What kind of information are you looking for? If this > >> is what you like to hear, yes using that character instead of > >> slash, solves your poblem of entering short dates. :-) > > > > Ok, here comes the more info from Chapter 8 of Unicode available > > online at: > > > > http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch08.pdf#G20596 > > > > It says: > > > > Date Separator. U+060D ARABIC DATE SEPARATOR is used in Pakistan > > and India between the numeric date and the month name when > > writing out a date. This sign is distinct from U+002F SOLIDUS, > > which is used, for example, as a separator in currency amounts. > > > > > > --behdad > > behdad.org > > _______________________________________________ > > PersianComputing mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing > > > > > --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
