Re: Euro

2000-07-29 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 12:13 PM 7/28/00 -0800, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: I was not talking about the shape. I think all of us have seen it, and many have also read the documents which define its exact shape using a ruler and a compass. I was talking about the origin of the shape. In some sense, except for purists,

Re: Euro

2000-07-29 Thread 11digitboy
Yeah, how WOULD you make a serifed, rounded E that doesn't look silly and doesn't look like a C with an extra line? Well, maybe you can, I dunno. Anyone who can do that, I'd like to see it. -- Robert Lozyniak Accusplit pedometer manufactures can go suck eggs My page: http://walk.to/11 [EMAIL

Re: Euro

2000-07-29 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
I found it! Everybody's invited to take a look at: http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb19-2/tb59inn.pdf On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Asmus Freytag wrote: If you will, the 'common man's' idea of what a proper Euro glyph is, is fast becoming influenced by what he sees on a daily basis, not by the

Encoding of non-characters

2000-07-29 Thread Doug Ewell
Did I read recently (in a message that I shortsightedly deleted) something to the effect that a character encoding scheme (CES) or transfer encoding syntax (TES) needs to be able to encode the non- characters U+D800 through U+DFFF, and presumably U+xxFFFE and U+xx as well? I've been playing

Re: Display Persian characters under Linux

2000-07-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
Darya Said-Akbari wrote: Hi, this is my firts email to the Unicode email list. There is a lot I want to learn from you all. So even if my questions are sometimes stupid, nevertheless I like to read your answer on all issues. The only stupid question is the one you didn't ask. My goal

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-29 Thread Md Ziaur Rahman
Now I came to the conclusion that there is a way to represent khando-ta in Standard and that is quite satisfactory. However some indications are confusing. So I am writing my understanding, Ta + Virama + ZWNJ = ta with explicit virama Ta + Virama + consonant = Conjunct (ta +

Re: Display Persian characters under Linux

2000-07-29 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Edward Cherlin wrote: The current Arabic script font standard (which covers Farsi) is ISO 8859-6. You may see ECMA-114 or ASMO 449 mentioned in some places. ISO 8859-6 does not cover Farsi. There are at least six missing important letters, PEH, TCHEH, JEH, KEHEH, GAF,

Re: FW: Oracle and Surrogate Pairs

2000-07-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
At 2:41 AM -0800 7/25/2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have been developing/convering a software to support multiple languages, especially Japanese, Korean and later on French etc. i have increased all the required fields by a factor of 3. Keeping "True, but within a year or so,

Re: Display problems

2000-07-29 Thread Mark Davis
The best I've got so far is: Java To allow Java applets (and/or programs) to draw Unicode characters in the fonts you have available, you will need to hand-edit the font.properties files that the Java runtime uses. Since you may have several Java runtimes installed on your machine (for

Re: Display problems

2000-07-29 Thread Katsuhiko Momoi
Hi, Some time ago I wrote up how-to-edit font.properties file for Communicator users. In it I illustrate how to set up multilingual display with Cyberbit font. The file has been available from the International Users page under Communicator's HELP menu. I hope to update this document slightly in

RE: FW: Oracle and Surrogate Pairs

2000-07-29 Thread Michael Kung
Or you can use SQL Server w/o upgrading your exist databases. SQL Server 7.0 supports two character sets - CHAR for legacy character set and NCHAR for Unicode (UCS-2). SQL is surrogate safe. You can store surrogates in the NCHAR data column. Michael -Original Message- From: Edward

Re: Bangla(Bengali) letter Missing

2000-07-29 Thread Abdul Malik
My question is, should speakers of Bangla be restricted to be able to form only the common forms, or should there be a way for us to produce both forms shown? Or perhaps do you expect us (Bangladeshis) to use the assami Va? In the grammar book by Munir chowdhury, Mofazzal Haider Ch. and