Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Md Ziaur Rahman
Hi everyone, I am a Bangladeshi.Bangladesh is a countryto the east of India. Bangla is our national language. Recently I checked the unicode standard 3.0 and found that a letter that is frequently used in Bangla is absent from the standard. It is Bangla letter Khondo-ta. . Cananyone tell

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread brendan_murray
Md Ziaur Rahman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... found that a letter that is frequently used in Bangla is absent from the standard. It is Bangla letter Khondo-ta I believe that this character is a composition of TA (U+09A4) and the ZERO-WIDTH JOINER, the so-called half-consonant, as opposed to

RE: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
Brendan Murray wrote: "Md Ziaur Rahman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... found that a letter that is frequently used in Bangla is absent from the standard. It is Bangla letter Khondo-ta I believe that this character is a composition of TA (U+09A4) and the ZERO-WIDTH JOINER, the so-called

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Abdul Malik
"Md Ziaur Rahman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... found that a letter that is frequently used in Bangla is absent from the standard. It is Bangla letter Khondo-ta A more of a concen of mine is the lack of a 'Bengali letter Va' in the standard. Some Bangla texts make a distinction where a conjunt

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Robert Brady
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Abdul Malik wrote: How am I to encode the different forms in unicode? For the last three, you can do something like BENGALI LETTER WHATEVER BENGALI VIRAMA BENGALI LETTER BA for the -va form, and BENGALI LETTER WHATEVER BENGALI VIRAMA ZERO WIDTH JOINER

RE: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
Robert Brady wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Abdul Malik wrote: How am I to encode the different forms in unicode? For the last three, you can do something like BENGALI LETTER WHATEVER BENGALI VIRAMA BENGALI LETTER BA for the -va form, and BENGALI LETTER WHATEVER BENGALI

Question regarding bidirectional algorithm

2000-07-27 Thread David Tooke
The bidirectional algorithm mentions mirrored glyphs. The reference code handles them by replacing these characters with their mirror image. Is this the preferred method of doing this? If so, is there any where in the Unicode database that correlates the two characters? Otherwise, do I

Re: Question regarding bidirectional algorithm

2000-07-27 Thread John Cowan
David Tooke wrote: The bidirectional algorithm mentions mirrored glyphs. The reference code handles them by replacing these characters with their mirror image. Is this the preferred method of doing this? If so, is there any where in the Unicode database that correlates the two

Redesigned site -- kudos

2000-07-27 Thread Joan Aliprand
A colleague recently commented how useful the Unicode web site is. Since librarians are in the business of making information easily available, the site redesign team should regard this as a high compliment. I was not involved in the redesign work at all, so I am free to add my two-cents' worth.

Re: Question regarding bidirectional algorithm

2000-07-27 Thread Markus Scherer
David Tooke wrote: The bidirectional algorithm mentions mirrored glyphs. The reference code handles them by replacing these characters with their mirror image. Is this the preferred method of doing this? If so, is there any where in the Unicode database that correlates the two

Re: Excel 2000, ADO and Unicode

2000-07-27 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
So you do not think I am nuts here. :-) Set con = New ADODB.Connection set rs = New ADODB.Recordset con.Provider = "Microsoft.JET.OLEDB.4.0" stCon = "Excel 5.0;DATABASE=book1.xls;HDR=NO;IMEX=2" con.ConnectionString = stCon con.Open stSql = "SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]" rs.Open stSql, con,

RE: Excel 2000, ADO and Unicode

2000-07-27 Thread Mikko Lahti
Title: RE: Excel 2000, ADO and Unicode :) I wasn't using the JET provider, that was the problem. All works now. Thanks! Later, Mikko Globalization Specialist Onyx Software - Bringing e-business and business together [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.onyx.com 425.519.4172 -Original Message-

RE: Difference between EM QUAD and EM SPACE

2000-07-27 Thread Gregg Reynolds
-Original Message- From: Edward Cherlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 1:23 AM To: Unicode List Subject: RE: Difference between EM QUAD and EM SPACE At 2:09 AM -0800 7/11/00, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jonathan Coxhead wrote:

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-27 Thread Dhrubajyoti Banerjee
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Abdul Malik wrote Robert Brady wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Abdul Malik wrote: How am I to encode the different forms in unicode? For the last three, you can do something like BENGALI LETTER WHATEVER BENGALI VIRAMA BENGALI LETTER BA for the

UTF-EBCDIC to UTF-8

2000-07-27 Thread Jeu George
Hello, Is their any conversion routine that transforms UTF-EBCDIC characters to UTF-8 characters. Regards Jeu