Re: Colours

2000-10-26 Thread Sean O Seaghdha
Ar 22 Oct 2000, ag 0:41 scríobh William Overington fán ábhar "Re: Colours": Speaking about some postcard versions of Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry William said: > In those pictures, one for each month of the year, there was a square or > maybe rectangular picture at the bottom... > ...

Re: Mac support of UCAS in Unicode 3.0

2000-10-26 Thread Rick McGowan
> The only exception I am aware of to this rule is > the OmniWeb application which runs only on Mac OS X. One dis-advantage of OmniWeb, by the way, for international use, is that it requires that you set (in a preference panel) the encoding it uses for pages that it renders; it doesn't know abo

Re: Mac support of UCAS in Unicode 3.0

2000-10-26 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
on 10/26/00 3:55 PM, Nesbitt, Gavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To focus this advice, perhaps I can ask whether Unicode syllabic encoded web > pages would be technically viewable on Macs? If so, what would be required > to do so and if not, what might be required to get it supported...? All cur

Mac support of UCAS in Unicode 3.0

2000-10-26 Thread Nesbitt, Gavin
I'm trying to determine what level of support exists within MacOS 8.5, 9.0 and above for characters in the Unicode 3.0 range. To be specific I'm interested in a defined character set (approximately U+1401 - U+157) of the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1400

Re: Convincing executives of character code perils

2000-10-26 Thread Alain LaBonté 
À 16:13 2000-10-26 -0400, Suzanne Topping a écrit: Hello Alain, I'm sure you were making a very important point below, but I didn't understand it! Could you explain please? Thanks, Suzanne [Alain]  Using the ROT13 code for English is the same issue as using multiple codes for other languages.

Re: Convincing executives of character code perils

2000-10-26 Thread Alain LaBonté 
À 12:47 2000-10-24 -0800, Suzanne Topping a écrit: Again, if you are only talking about French, German, and Spanish, character set is a non-issue. [Nynva]  Not much more than the following (although it is in fact worse than this, much worse): Ntnva, vs lbh ner bayl gnyxvat nobhg Serapu, Trezna

Re: Colours

2000-10-26 Thread Alain LaBonté 
À 18:41 2000-10-21 -0800, William Overington a écrit: I am reminded of some pictures I once saw on collectable postcards.  The pictures were reproductions from a medieval book, possibly, but I am not sure, The Tres Riches Heures of the Duc du Berry, which is a famous manuscript book.  (There shoul

Re: Normative vs Informative

2000-10-26 Thread Michael Everson
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Re: Normative vs Informative

2000-10-26 Thread Michael Everson
Ar 00:04 -0700 2000-10-26, scríobh Mark Davis: >I am leary of using normative your way unless we find strong evidence of >this. Well, that's just wrong, Mark. (Sorry, it's beat-up Mark day I guess.) Ken explained Normative and Informative as they are used in ISO, that is, in the standardization