Re: GEORGIAN DIGITs

2000-08-09 Thread Antoine Leca
En/Na [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrit: Where are the Georgian digits? They are the letters (as in Greek, Armenian, Hebrew, etc.) I want a set of Georgian digits so I can use them as counter digits. Look after URL:http://people.netscape.com/ftang/i18n.html#number The theory have been explained

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-09 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 11:01 PM 8/7/00 -0800, Jianping Yang wrote: Not really for Unicode in which we have relocated some codepoints for Hangul between Unicode 1.1 and 2.0 :) Regards, Jianping. "Christopher J. Fynn" wrote: Allowing changes like this would break existing implementations of these standards -

Re: Euro

2000-08-09 Thread Antoine Leca
Asmus Freytag wrote: The problem with the commission design of the euro glyph is that it only works as long as you use their aspect ratio and uniform stroke width. As long as you have these, the eye will complete them to a lower case 'e' form and you will see an 'e'uro. As soon as you

Arabic shaping behavior questions

2000-08-09 Thread Bob_Hallissy
Several questions: 1) Is the Arabic Joining Class information (i.e., that supplied in ArabicShaping.txt and discussed on pg 192) considered to be normative or informative? 2) U+0649 (ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA) has joining class "R", meaing in common parlance that it has no initial or medial

Re: Fonts for I, L, 1

2000-08-09 Thread Antoine Leca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't need the word "ill" to look like Roman numeral three. That is supposed to be written « Ill », since this is a river. I was told that the tavern there (Auberge de l'Ill) is one of the better place to eat, by the way. And yes, it is very difficult to grasp

RE: Arabic shaping behavior questions

2000-08-09 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
Bob Hallissy wrote: 1) Is the Arabic Joining Class [...] normative or informative? Like it or not, it is normative. See http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeCharacterDatabase.html, that reads: ... ArabicShaping.txt (Section 8.2) Basic Arabic and Syriac character shaping

Re: Braille rendering of Unicode [OT 50%]

2000-08-09 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Is not http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/braille_patterns.html or alternately http://charts.unicode.org/Web/U2800.html already covering this? Note that the standard specifically does not try to give linguistic meaning to braille, it is attempting to encode the current scheme of Braille.

RE: Braille rendering of Unicode [OT 50%]

2000-08-09 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: Is not http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/braille_patterns.html or alternately http://charts.unicode.org/Web/U2800.html already covering this? No. These are at most the building blocks for braille. A better parallel would be to consider these "presentation

RE: Arabic shaping behavior questions

2000-08-09 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ((( Personally, I think that this makes little sense. There is an even more "minimal" shaping, that uses a single glyph for class "R" characters and 2 glyphs for most class "D" characters. Such an approach is used in the Iranian standard charset,

RE: Summary: xml:lang validity and RFC 1766 refs to outdated

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Brown
I don't see anything in RFC 1766 that hardcodes it to the 1988 versions of either 639 or 3166. I have taken this discussion off the Unicode list. I only started the thread here because I was referencing an earlier post and because ISO 639 language code updates were topical a couple months

Re: Braille rendering of Unicode [OT 50%]

2000-08-09 Thread James Kass
Marco Cimarosti wrote about Unicode-Braille conversions. This may be a very specialized use for Unicode, but it is fascinating. American Foundation for the Blind has a fact sheet about Braille Technology for anyone else whose curiosity was piqued: