Re: Question: the german umlaut

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > > > Date/Time:Fri Nov 8 09:05:40 EST 2002 > > Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback > > > > Hello > > > > I just wanted to know how much space in byte

Small 's' with grave?

Wednesday, September 25, 2002 A friend of a friend asked me if Unicode has a code for small s with a grave. I can't find one; am I overlooking it? Has it been added since 3.0? Thanks in advance. Regards, Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Sequences of combining characters (from Romanization of Cyrillicand Byzantine legal codes)

My comment is inserted after the first paragraph. On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote: [snip] > Look, let's consider again what problem we are trying to solve > here. We have two funky forms from the ALA-LC transliteration > tables, for which we haven't he

Re: Sequences of combining characters (from Romanization of Cyrillicand Byzantine legal codes)

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote: > Peter said: > > > >This stuff *can* all be handled with appropriately designed > > >ligations in fonts, so there are options for display: > > > > > > > > > > > > ==> > > > maps via ligation table to: > > > > > >{t-s-tie-ligature-with-dot-above}

Re: [OT] looking for electronic dictionaries

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Eric Muller wrote: > For my personal use, I would like to acquire electronic dictionaries, > principally for the major European languages, with the following > characteristics: > > - reputable source > > - "raw" datafiles accessible - I appreciate the interfaces that > d

Re: Recent changes to i18n standards

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 08/23/2002 04:54:58 AM "Doug Ewell" wrote: > > >For those who like to keep up on such things, there have been recent > >changes to the code lists of two important standards related to > >internationalization -- ISO 639 (language codes) and ISO 31

Re: FW: New version of TR29:

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Michael Everson wrote: > At 10:10 -0700 2002-08-20, Andrew C. West wrote: > >On Tue, 20 August 2002, John Cowan wrote: > > > > > It has no sound, but neither does Romance "h"; both > >exist as a marker of etymology. > > > >But in fact the apostrophe may have a sound in dial

Re: FW: New version of TR29:

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Andrew C. West wrote: > On Tue, 20 August 2002, John Cowan wrote: > > > It has no sound, but neither does Romance "h"; both exist as a > > marker of > > etymology. > > > > But in fact the apostrophe may have a sound in dialectal English, where it is > used to represent a

Re: Discrepancy between Names List & Code Charts?

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, John Cowan wrote: > John Hudson scripsit: > > > The newish Gagauz Turkish Latin-script orthography derives from both > > Turkish and Romanian models. This has led to a peculiar hybrid, in which > > the cedilla is used for the s and the commaaccent is used for the t. > >

Children of the Code - PBS Series - (English History) (fwd)

Monday, July 29, 2002 Of possible interest. Regards, Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) The above are purely personal opinions, not necessarily the official views of any government or any agency of any. Addresses: Office: Phone: 2

Re: Unicode certification - quote correction and attribution

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote: > [snip] > > And the devil is in the details. Looking a bit at your suggestions, > for example: > [snip] > Friday, July 26, 2002 No, "God is in the details" Ludiwg Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) said. And

Re: The standard disclaimer

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Tex Texin wrote: > > > John Hudson wrote: > > > > At 08:41 AM 24-07-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > from:Doug Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > subject: Re: The standard disclaimer > > > > > > > > James Kass wrote: > > > > > > > > >> However, just as

Re: *Why* are precomposed characters required for "backward

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, John Cowan wrote: > James E. Agenbroad scripsit: > > > The standards I cited use both > > techniques (precomposed and decomposed letter+diacritic) but they don't > > allow two ways of creating a single letter+diacritic combination th

Re: Codes for codes for codes for... (RE: Chromatic font research)

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > > Encoding the navy's flag alphabet or the Morse code would be exactly doing > > this: assigning a code to a code which represents a letter. > > BTW, which characters should be used to encode the dot

Re: *Why* are precomposed characters required for "backwardcompatibility"?

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote: > David Hopwood wrote: > > > Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > > > > > The only difficulty would have been if a pre-existing standard had supported > > both precomposed and decomposed encodings of the same combining mark. I don't >

Re: Mongolian Ali Gali

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Michael Everson wrote: > At 11:48 +0100 2002-07-03, Anthony Stone wrote: > >I should be very glad if someone could solve the mystery of what > >Sanskrit and/or Tibetan characters correspond to the following Unicode > >characters: > > > >1883 MONGOLIAN LETTER ALI GALI UBADAMA >

Re: Characters 0x80 - 0x9F in ISO 8859-1

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:59:14AM +0200, Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > > > > This list has previously told me that the characters 0x80 - 0x9F in > > ISO 8859-1 are a particular set of control characters from ISO 6429. > > [snip] > > > > I now see

Printed Proceedings of the Dublin IUC?

Tuesday, June 4, 2002 Does anyone have a copy of the printed proceedings of the recent International Unicode Conference held in Dublin that they would be willing to part with? I could afford U.S. postage costs. Only the CD version is available from the s

Re: Ie abbreviation character

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Michael Everson wrote: > At 11:55 +0200 2002-04-30, Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > >* Stefan Persson > >| > >| Isn't the reversed lower-case "c" somewhere in the IPA block? > > > >Could be, but I need "reversed lower-case 'c' followed by colon" as a > >single character. > > > >

Re: How many printable characters in 3.2.0?

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Doug Ewell wrote: > Zsigri Gyula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How many printable characters are there in Unicode 3.2.0? I tried > > desperately to find the answer at the Unicode web site but could > > not. > > There are 95,156 total assigned characters. > > To find the

Re: Inherent "a"

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Doug Ewell wrote: > Avarangal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need to allocate a U+codepoint for inherent "a", to be used for > > Tamil research. Can anyone suggest a temporary location or is it > > possible to find such code point within the existing code point > > for T

Re: "UTR#9: Bidirection" and "UTR#14: Line Breaking"

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Markus Scherer wrote: > Chookij Vanatham wrote: > > > UTR#14:Line Breaking says that, "Interpretation of line breaking properties > > in bidirectional text takes place before applying rule L1 of the Unicode > > Bidirectional Algorithm". > > > > UTR#9:Bidirectional says

Re: Talk about Unicode Myths...

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, John Cowan wrote: > John H. Jenkins scripsit: > > > (His point is that if you have kanji in an IDN you can't tell whether to > > draw it the Japanese way or the Chinese way, of course, and since > > civilization as we know it depends on Japanese people never being > > con

Re: Synthetic scripts (was: Re: Private Use Agreements and UnapprovedCharacters)

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Kenneth Whistler wrote: > Dan Kogai continued: > [snip] > > His > > favorite appears to be ISO-2022 but as Yet Another Perl Encoding Hacker, > > ISO-2022 is pain in the arse > > You got that right! > > --Ken > Mo

Re: Synthetic scripts

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Miikka-Markus Alhonen wrote: > > On 17-Mar-02 Curtis Clark wrote: > > At 04:45 PM 3/16/02, Doug Ewell wrote: > >>But right away that definition includes not only Shavian, Tengwar, > >>Cirth, Klingon, and most of the contents of ConScript, but also > >>Ethiopic, Cherokee, Can

Re: Private Use Agreements and Unapproved Characters

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Michael Everson wrote: > Um, > > What I think is that *I* for one am certainly not going to invest any > effort in pseudo-coding scripts in a "PreScript" Unicode Registry. > The work to get scripts proposed and encoded is enough. If someone is > interested in a script, an

Re: Private Use Agreements and Unapproved Characters

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, John Cowan wrote: > [snip]> > > (In truth neither of us has had much time to process new registrations > lately. Arse longa, vita brevis.) > [snip] > -- > John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.reutershealth.com > I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,h

Re: Private Use Agreements and Unapproved Characters

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, William Overington wrote: > Here is a system that I think would work. > > Consider please that there exists for the private use area the concept of > the hexadecimal point. The term "hexadecimal point" is similar to the > concept of a decimal point, the difference being tha

RE: Devanagari variations

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > Peter Constable wrote: > > On 03/07/2002 02:16:10 PM "James E. Agenbroad" wrote: > > > > >A similar but not the same situation is found in the fourth > > example in > > >figure 9-3 of Unicode 3.0 (p

Re: Devanagari variations

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim Agenbroad responded (off list): > > >Not quite. On page 214 of 3.0 there is one RA vowel, a halant and a > RI > >vowel: RA(d) + RI(n) --> RI(n) +RA(sup) ( parens in lieu ofsubscript) > > I didn't realise that "RI" meant the vocalic R. I m

Re: Devanagari variations

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Michael Everson wrote: > At 15:16 -0500 07/03/2002, James E. Agenbroad wrote: > >On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> On 03/06/2002 08:25:18 AM Michael Everson wrote: > > [snip] > >> > >&g

Re: Devanagari variations

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 03/06/2002 08:25:18 AM Michael Everson wrote: [snip] > > >In > >Cham, independent vowels can take dependent vowel signs. In > >Devanagari, I guess that doesn't occur, but the Brahmic model > >shouldn't be understood to preclude

Re: Unicode and Bengali

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Doug Ewell wrote: > Dhrubajyoti Banerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [quoting Akshor] > > I thing we need not be restrained by these so-called 'standards'. > Because, > > they can't and will not serve our need (Bengali) in my humble view. > Thats > > why we toke this proje

Re: [OT beyond any repair] House numbers (was RE: ISO 3166 (countryc odes) Maintenance Agency Web pages move))

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Patrick Andries wrote: > > > Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > >John Cowan wrote: > > > >>[...] House numbers in North America (and in France > >>also, it seems) have a few bits of meaning: the least-significant > >>(numeric) bit tells you which side of the street the house is on

Re: Standard Conventions and euro

Friday, March 1, 2002 Would I be correct in assuming that the Euro is also now the currency in non-European dependencies such as the Netherlands Antilles, French Polynesia, etc.? Apologies in advance if either of these is now independent. Regards

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

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > John Hudson wrote: > > At 06:33 2/25/2002, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > > > >Alain LaBonté wrote: > > > > [...] Who knows? What is the word for "gipsy" in Romanian? [...] > > > > > >"Rom", in fact: I just asked this to a Rumanian colleague. > > > > I

Re: Unicode Search Engines

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Asmus Freytag wrote: > At 09:52 PM 2/18/02 -0800, Doug Ewell wrote: > >So if some language turns out to need > >"a with horn" in the future, its readers will have to cross its fingers > >that rendering engines become capable of displaying U+0061 U+031B > >properly. > > Suppo

Re: Unicode and Security

Thursday, February 7, 2002 Would making the about to be misled respondent type the address of the intended person (with a roman 'o', not a greek omicron) and then having the system see if they match detect and thwart such tricks? The respondent is alre

ALA/LC Romanization Tables on the Web

Wednesday, February 6, 2002 The scanned pages of the 1997 ALA/LC romanization tables are now available on the Web: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization.html Note that in lieu of the Wade Giles pages there is a note that pinyin guidelines are pendi

Oops!

The ALA/LC romanization tables ar at: lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html ( not .../romanization.html as in my earlier note) Sorry, Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) "It is not true that people stop pursuing their dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they sto

Re: names of the control characters

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Michael Everson wrote: > At 12:33 -0800 2002-02-03, Mark Davis wrote: > >This has bitten more than a few people. For political reasons, having > >to do with the synchronization of names to ISO 10646, the name fields > >are empty for the control characters. That is because (at

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

Monday, November 26, 2001 It seems to me that we have three separate domains to deal with: 1. What should be keyed as input of Indic scripts, mainly Devanagari? 2. How shall Indic scripts data be stored and exchanged? 3. How should Indic

Cuneiform Article

Thursday, November 15, 2001 On pages A14-15 the November 9 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education has an article "Silicon Babylon" by Scott LcLemee on the Cunieform Digital Library Initiative. It seems they're using digital images, not character encodi

Re: What constitutes "character"?

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Philipp Reichmuth wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello folks, > > I've been wondering a little bit recently about the definition of > "character" vs. "glyph variant" that is applied during decision > whether or not a given proposed character sho

Re: No proper representation of Devnagari in Unicode

Thursday, November 1, 2001 The following quotation from "Computer graphics in India: an architecture for shaping Indic texts, by S.P.Mudur, Niranjan Nayak, Shrinath Shanbhag, R.K.Soshj" [or Joshi?] (Computers & grpahics 23 (1999) may be helpful: 3.

Re: Cyrillic Q

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, John Hudson wrote: > At 02:48 9/27/2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > >A lot of time ago, someone on this list mentioned a language, written in the > >Cyrillic alphabet, which employed letter "Q", taken from the Latin alphabet. > > > >Which language is it? > > Kurdish. The co

Re: discontent about Indic scripts and Unicode

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Rick McGowan wrote: > > 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

RE: discontent about Indic scripts and Unicode

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Carl W. Brown wrote: > Ram, > > If ISCII is intended as a pan-Indic solution does it also support Urdu? > > Carl > Wednesday, September 19, 2001 No, from the foreword to ISCII: "As Perso-Arabic scripts have a different alphabet, a diff

Re: FW: 6 questions

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Bernard Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 5:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 6 questions > > > Hello, > > These are the questions I wanted to > ask: > > 1

RE: [OT] o-circumflex

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Ayers, Mike wrote: > > > From: David Starner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 01:40 PM > > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:03:07PM +0200, Thierry Sourbier wrote: > > > The only little thing to know about French and diacritical > > mark is that

Re: Arial Unicode MS and Code2000

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Rajesh Chandrakar wrote: > > James Kass wrote: > > > Adarsh wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > Another problem has to do with searching/indexing. Search/index > > applications > > are "broken" by non-Standard encodings. > > but how far searching and indexing is possible for e

UN Digital Divide conf planned for 2003 and 2005 (fwd)

Thursday, June 21, 2001 Of possible interest to some Unicoders. While Unicode will not solve all "digital divide" issues it can contribute to solution of some of them IMHO. Regards, Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) The above are pur

RE: informative due to variation across langauges

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > Peter Constable wrote: > > Can anyone think of other examples of informative properties > > that are so > > because the property is typical but not true for all languages? > >[snip] I arrived late to this discussion. Is "culturally correct" sor

Re: New acquisition

Tuesday, June 12, 2001 Did the Lion dip his thorn in ink? Jim Agenbroad (discalimer and addresses at bottom) On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, John Hudson wrote: > At 15:56 6/11/2001 +0100, Michael Everson wrote: > > >Shaw, Bernard. 1962. Androcles & th

RE: Some Char. to Glyph Statistics, Pan/Single Font

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Edward Cherlin wrote: > At 5:12 PM +0200 5/31/01, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > [snip] > The manual Hangul typewriter I learned on had multiple forms for > initial consonants, supplied by means of an extra shift level. (Yes! > A mechanical buckybit!! Jim:I too have acce

RE: Some Char. to Glyph Statistics, Pan/Single Font

Thursday, May 31, 2001 My goal was never to give a specific number of glyphs needed to display a particular Indian or other script. As others have pointed out, this depends among other things, on the particular display device and its font processing

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

Thursday, May 31, 2001 We seem to have strayed from searching for a clearer term than Asian. I think part of the problem is that many language names are also national adjectives, e.g., Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Likewise names of scripts (or w

Some Char. to Glyph Statistics, Pan/Single Font

0955; US mail: I.T.S. Dev.Gp.4, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20540-9334 U.S.A. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 14:12:07 -0400 From: jage (James E. Agenbroad) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: jage@seq1 Subject: Some

Coptic?

Tuesday, May 22, 2001 My recollection is that assigning separate codes to all characters in Coptic script rather than treating it as part of Greek script was under consideration at one time. If so, is this effort's current status closer to approve

[unicode] Re: "Not exactly"

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Tony Graham wrote: > At 27 Mar 2001 12:37 -0500, James E. Agenbroad wrote: > > On page 125 of the 2000 cumulation of 'Computer literature index' under > > the subject heading 'Conversion' the annotation for "Unicode: a primer&

[unicode] "Not exactly"

Tuesday, March 27, 2000 On page 125 of the 2000 cumulation of 'Computer literature index' under the subject heading 'Conversion' the annotation for "Unicode: a primer" by Tony Graham says: "Unicode is a programming standard and coding system for translat

[unicode] Re: removing compromises from unicode ("WCode")

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jonathan Coxhead wrote: > >It would be very entertaining to do the same job with the ideographs (down > to the radical level) and count the number of atoms. I suspect the resulting > "character set" would contain less than 2000 atoms altogether. > >Please do feel

Indic Scripts Page

Tuesday, March 13, 2001 Those interested in Indic and related scripts might want to consult: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.html [Thats a tilde before malaiya] Not all the links from it are operational but many are. Regards, J

RE: Final letters in Hebrew and Arabic

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Jonathan Rosenne wrote: > Regarding Hebrew: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Nick NICHOLAS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:12 PM > > To: Unicode List > > Cc: Nick NICHOLAS > > Subject: Final letters in Hebrew and Arabic > > > (1) When

Re: languages on Web (was Re: Unicode market acceptance)

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 03/09/2001 11:01:53 AM "Tex Texin" wrote: > > >We have estimates for (human) language usages on the web > > Do you mean the number of different languages used on the web? I'd be > curious to know what such estimates are. > > > > - Peter >

Re: Article in Financial Times; Feb 7, 2001

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Michael Everson wrote: > At 04:48 -0800 2001-02-08, J M Sykes quoted the FT: > > >The International Standards Organisation (ISO) has now agreed to give > >standard meanings to these remaining codes. > > Which as everyone knows, is really the International Organization for >

Daniels and Bright Tibetan Query

Wednesday, Januaary 31, 2001 In the chapter on Tibetan in Daniels and Bright's The world's writing systems (page 434) about prescript symbols: "There are six radicals that never occur with a prescript: wa, ra, la, ha, and 'a chung." Does anyone know what the

Order of bidi script numbers in ranges

Friday, January 19, 2001 In what order are ranges of numbers such as 15-23 expressed in a bidi context? 1. What is wanted visually, if there is one consistent expectation? 2. Then what order should the codes be stored in Unicode for the bidi algorithm to pro

Re: conjucts beginning with independent vowel?

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 01/17/2001 05:13:25 AM Michael Everson wrote: > > >> A + Ldep > > > >No such thing as Ldep in our model, so you'd have to rely on A + virama + > L. > > Well, if a script had such behaviour, one possibility could be to propose a > combinin

Re: Unicode Case Mappings UTR #21

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Antoine Leca wrote: > Carl W. Brown wrote: > > > > #3 French also has other articles such as d'. > > Yes. But this one, contrary to "l'" can according to the context, > either be the contraction (élidé) of "de", or can be a genuine > part of a proper name... When it comes t

Lakota--Oops!

Wednesday, November 14, 2000 Oh I see the long right leg is straight. Sorry. Regards, Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) The above are purely personal opinions, not necessarily the official views of any government or any agency of any

Re: Lakota (was Re: OT: Devanagari question)

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Rick McGowan wrote: > [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

Re: OT: Devanagari question

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, D.V. Henkel-Wallace wrote: > At 06:30 2000-11-14 -0800, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > >But my point was: not even Mr. Ethnologue himself knows exactly *which* > >combinations are meaningful, in all orthographic system. And, clearly, no > >one can figure out which combinations m

Re: Devanagari question

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Rick McGowan wrote: > > 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

Devanagari question

Thursday, November 8, 2000 After sending a comment on the Ra(sup) + independent vowel discussion two more general Devanagari questions occurred to me: 1. Is a halant/virama ever valid following other than a consonant (or consonant and nukta)? My logic

RE: Devanagari Consonant RA Rule R2

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Apurva Joshi wrote: > The RA[sup] is seen applied to the independent vowel Vocalic R (U+ 090B) in > printed samples in Sanskrit. > > There are atleast the following words that contain the above: > NaiRiTa (the name of a demon) > => 0928 090B Ra[sup] 0924 > NaiRiTi (the goddes

Re: Number separators

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, James E. Agenbroad wrote: > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > > > Most of this happens to be in the Windows NLS database. See GetLocaleInfo in > > MSDN for details: > > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase

Re: Number separators

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > Most of this happens to be in the Windows NLS database. See GetLocaleInfo in > MSDN for details: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase/nls_34rz.htm > > Or more specifically, LCTypes like LOCALE_SGROUPING for this function, > lis

RE: "Giga Character Set": Nothing but noise

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jon Babcock wrote: > > It seems to me that if not for that, how could anyone > > make a Chinese font? Who is going to sit down and > > draw a *myriad* or more characters? Since elements > > recur, this reduces the amount of labour required > > greatl

RE: CJK combining components

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Doug Ewell wrote: > > Marco Cimarosti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Carl W. Brown: > > >> An article in the October 12, 2000 issue of Linux Weekly News > > >> tries to explain the benefit... > > > > Actually, that qu

RE: "Giga Character Set": Nothing but noise

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jon Babcock wrote: > > It seems to me that if not for that, how could anyone > > make a Chinese font? Who is going to sit down and > > draw a *myriad* or more characters? Since elements > > recur, this reduces the amount of labour required > > greatl

Re: Clarification of Arabic joining classes

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Majid Bhurgri wrote: > > On Tues, 10 Oct 2000, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > > It's somehow weird for me, and if it were me, I would have considered it > > non-joining. Why would it appear between two letters that would otherwise > > join? Arabic cannot be broken between the

Re: TATAP => TATAR

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Mark Davis wrote: > If those can be confirmed, then the SpecialCasing file should be modified to add > them. Could you verify this in time for the next UTC? > > Mark > > Cathy Wissink wrote: > > > I believe Azeri also uses the dotless i/dotted i Turkish-style casing. > > >

Re: (iso639.184) Plane 14 redux (was: Same language, two locales)

Tuesday, September 12, 2000 Last Friday was International Literacy Day here at LC. SIL was among those distributing literature here. From it I gather their goal is to define and implement writing systems for many presently unwritten languages a

Re: NUKTA

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Jaap Pranger wrote: > At 18:05 +0200 2000.08.23, James E. Agenbroad wrote: > > > >In a list of Devanagari conjuncts if compiled a while ago there are at > >least two cases of conjuncts in which both consonants have a nukta: > >1. Ka + nukta + hal

Re: NUKTA

{snip} > ] The only real question here is what typographical practice in Devanagari > ] would be if two nuktated consonants came together in a halfform/fullform > ] juxtaposition or in a conjunct form involving two nuktated consonants > ] (do such conjunct forms even exist? -- I wo

Re: Cost per character?

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Christopher J. Fynn wrote: > Leaving aside implementation costs - has anyone ever come up with a good > estimate of the cost per character for the development of the Unicode / ISO > 10646 standards in terms of man hours of experts and their long-suffering > secretaries, the