Re: Using Unicode in XML

2000-07-15 Thread Markus Scherer
please note that the xml spec has an "errata" list with 67 items that substantially update the spec. there, it now also recommends (though it does not force) for xml clients to recognize u+feff for utf-8 (the bytes ef bb bf) and many other byte combinations. there is a link to the errata at the

Re: Arabic decimal separator [was Re: Persian developers]

2000-07-15 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Daniel Biddle wrote: http://sina.sharif.ac.ir/~roozbeh/farsiweb/066B.png Please configure your server to send PNG files as image/png, not text/plain. Sorry. It's fixed now.

Designing a multilingual web site

2000-07-15 Thread Munzir Taha
I am designing a multilingual web site. I need to enter text in more than 70 languages. I don't know about the limitations I have nor the obstacles I could meet. I noticed in the Unicode site that they are using a utf-8 charset in the page that contains different languages and 1252 in the others.

Nicholas in Japanese?

2000-07-15 Thread Doug Ewell
I used to think this sort of posting was off-topic, but I see it so often that I assume it's OK. I have a friend whose 6-year-old son, Nicholas, has some Japanese ancestry and there was recently a discussion about how his name would be written in Japanese. I don't know Japanese (as you will

Re: Designing a multilingual web site

2000-07-15 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
(thanks for including me on thee cc:line, I am flattered!) UTF-8 is an acceptable alternative for text on from any code page (and it is the really the only alternative for multilingual pages since design tools on the Windows platform outside of notepad cannot handle UTF-16 or UTF-32). The

Arabic: A Script and a Langauge (was Re: Persian developers (was Re: Detecting installed fonts in ...)

2000-07-15 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Munzir Taha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] These so-called Arabic letters are no Arabic at all. I have no time to follow these errors and try to correct them, but hope one can do it. Minzir, These languages (Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, Punjabi, and others) do indeed use the Arabic script, and since

Re: Pronunciation of Unicode

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

Re: Designing a multilingual web site

2000-07-15 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
(answering the other question you were asking) In FrontPage 2000 under Windows 2000 I couldn't change the banner text to any language but English (It seems as FrontPage dialog boxes accepts nothing but the system language, what can I do)? Although I am enabling Arabic but it appears wrong