Re: Character properties

2000-10-25 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:48:52 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze: isDigit:Nd isHexDigit: '0'..'9', 'A'..'F', 'a'..'f' isDecDigit: '0'..'9' isOctDigit: '0'..'7' The definition "Nd" is what I would have proposed for isDecDigit. The name isDecDigit is confusing indeed...

Re: Character properties

2000-10-25 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:48:52 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze: isDigit:Nd isHexDigit: '0'..'9', 'A'..'F', 'a'..'f' isDecDigit: '0'..'9' isOctDigit: '0'..'7' The definition "Nd" is what I would have proposed for isDecDigit. The name isDecDigit is confusing indeed...

RE: Convincing executives of character code perils

2000-10-25 Thread Carl W. Brown
J.P. X.Net, Inc. is a Globalization consulting company. We often get involved with a companies second attempt. It seems so easy just to localize your product and you are ready for the world market. This is an area where people have no experience and it seems like they have to get burned to

Re: Convincing executives of character code perils

2000-10-25 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
well, most of the post is opinion but I agree with a lot of it so that's okay. :-) This came with Win 95. Unfortunately MS was competing with IBM's OS/2 at the time and wanted good performance on a 4MB system. While they use Unicode internally they dropped Unicode support from the user API.