Sorry if it appears "chauvinism", but it is not, that's really a question:
Michael Everson wrote:
Ar 16:40 -0800 2000-09-03, scríobh John Cowan:
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Alistair Vining wrote:
Except that the Oxford dictionaries (and hence many UK users) have gone over
to -ize spellings, so
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:47:41PM -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
Not even CLOSE to a complete list. From the forthcoming(1) bestseller
"The Quadrature of Unicode":
UTF-1: F7 64 4C
UTF-7: 2B 2F 76 38 2D"+/v8-"
UTF-7d5: BF FB FF
UTF-8C1: BB ED DF
UTF-9: 93 FD
Kenneth Whistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, there is great benefit in making a very strong recommendation
about the content of language tags -- and making it in the context
of the Unicode Standard itself, rather than someplace else. Tying
them to RFC 1766 (or its successor) makes it
of this list, only UTF-EBCDIC is a viable encoding form.
the others are either deprecated, never made it beyond draft, or are unofficial
discussion pieces that never made it anywhere (i proposed one of them :-).
if you detect all the big- and little-endian boms for the standard forms
utf-8,
Also see http://people.netscape.com/ftang/paper/unicode16/part2.html
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
Is anyone here familiar with Armenian? The CSS Level 2 specification
from the W3C makes reference to "Traditional Armenian numbering" but
Unicode doesn't seem to include any Armenian numbers,
Markus Scherer wrote:
of this list, only UTF-EBCDIC is a viable encoding form.
the others are either deprecated, never made it beyond draft,
or are unofficial discussion pieces that never made it
anywhere (i proposed one of them :-).
Please notice that at least one of these has never even
David Starner asked:
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:47:41PM -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
Not even CLOSE to a complete list. From the forthcoming(1) bestseller
"The Quadrature of Unicode":
UTF-1: F7 64 4C
UTF-7: 2B 2F 76 38 2D"+/v8-"
UTF-7d5: BF FB FF
UTF-8C1:
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:13:41AM -0800, Markus Scherer wrote:
of this list, only UTF-EBCDIC is a viable encoding form.
the others are either deprecated, never made it beyond draft, or are unofficial
discussion pieces that never made it anywhere (i proposed one of them :-).
if you detect
Hello,
How can I compose the Tamil character
n.aa?
Unicode seems to suggest using the combination:
0BA3+0BBE (NNA+AA). However the resulting representation of the digraph is not
the one found in litterature. There are other characters too in the Tamil
alphabet that cannot be represented.
Erik Lindberg asked...
Unicode seems to suggest using the combination: 0BA3+0BBE (NNA+AA).
However the resulting representation of the digraph is not the one
found in literature.
What system are you running on? Whose font? Which application(s)?
There are other characters too in the Tamil
Nna + Aa in contemporary Tamil can be represented as individual glyphs: Nna
Aa. If the font contains the traditional form -- which is a ligature, it can
be displayed using the Glyph Substitution (GSUB) layout table of OpenType.
More on OpenType at: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tt/tt.htm
From: "Rick McGowan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are other characters too in the Tamil alphabet that cannot
be represented.
These are probably ligatures; the basic alphabet is certainly represented.
Have you read the block introduction on Tamil in Unicode 3.0?
There is one thing missing in the
Actually, Apurva just did explain it and since she comes from a
typography background she did explain how the whole problem can be handled
via fonts. :-)
However, it cannot currently be handled by Unicode. You must choose the
proper font to display NNA AI, NNNA AI, LA AI, or LLA AI. The
"Michael (michka) Kaplan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, Apurva just did explain it and since she comes from a
typography background she did explain how the whole problem can be handled
via fonts. :-)
Yes, thanks. I saw the explanation after...
However, it cannot currently be
A Private Use Area scheme for encoding special
Tamil characters was created. This was inspired
by Mark Leisher's work with special Devanagari
characters.
Pending better OpenType support, if anyone is
interested:
http://home.att.net/~jameskass/tamsheet.htm
The chart uses three different
Hello ,
How do i convert BIG5
characters into Unicode or UTF-8 .
regards,
Viswanathan
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