Re: Transcriptions of "Unicode"

2000-12-08 Thread Curtis Clark
At 03:01 PM 12/8/00, John H. Jenkins wrote: >Yes, this is really true. If someone were reading an extended text or an >entire book in Chinese, they might prefer to see the Chinese glyphs, but >isolated words, quotations, and short passages are printed with Japanese ones. This is not unique to

Re: curly-tailed phonetic letters

2000-12-08 Thread Richard Cook
This table has undergone some further revision: http://stedt.berkeley.edu/pdf/curly-tail-table3.pdf Please note in the center of the table: U+0291/U+0293 and U+0255/U+0286 These 4 may in fact be 2 pairs of functional equivalents (synographs), pointing to the same place of articulation. Accordi

Re: Transcriptions of "Unicode"

2000-12-08 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 9:26 PM -0800 12/6/00, Erik van der Poel wrote: >"John H. Jenkins" wrote: >> >> This doesn't reflect, however, the way people actually use these >> ideographs. By and large, the Japanese reader wants to see them >> drawn with the Japanese glyph, whether or not the originator was >> Chinese

Re: Transcriptions of "Unicode"

2000-12-08 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 11:12 PM -0800 12/6/00, James Kass wrote: >Kenneth Whistler wrote: > >> >> The CJK radicals supplement, U+2E80..U+2EF3, are the ones that >> show a number of specific forms, but those are intended for >> special text purposes, as when specifying a radical index in >> a dictionary. >> > >The

Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or

2000-12-08 Thread Tex Texin
Addison, I think locale is a weak concept to begin with, but I can accept that it is good enough for initializing a set of properties to approximately what a user might want. Once those settings are made, unless the user wants to make a gross change in all of the settings, I let him change the i

Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or

2000-12-08 Thread addison
I think I see what Tex is saying. He's saying that the DATA locale may affect display of some page elements. For example the table containing result sets might be laid out RTL if the result set is RTL. This implies to me, however, that the result set has an intrinsic locale, as opposed to just spe

Re: UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format files

2000-12-08 Thread John Cowan
James Kass wrote: > but it may not be actually overriding the media type, It isn't after all. ? I should've > said "the pages load" rather than "the pages load just fine", since > I don't know what the pages are supposed to look like. I think > they are being displayed as HTML because there ar

Re: UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format files

2000-12-08 Thread James Kass
(Sorry, second try...) John Cowan wrote, > > Apparently your browser (IE? which version?) overrides > the media type specified by the server, which is "text/html". > MSIE 5.50.4134.0600 but it may not be actually overriding the media type, I should've said "the pages load" rather than "the p

Re: UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format files

2000-12-08 Thread James Kass
John Cowan wrote, > > Apparently your browser (IE? which version?) overrides > the media type specified by the server, which is "text/html". > MSIE 5.50.4134.0600 but it may not be actually overriding the media type, I should've said "the pages load" rather than "the pages load just fine", si

Re: UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format files

2000-12-08 Thread John Cowan
James Kass wrote: > > John Cowan wrote of problems with the *.UNI files... > > This browser loads them just fine, but perhaps this > is because I "associated" *.UNI files with the browser > in the Windows file type configurations? Apparently your browser (IE? which version?) overrides the media

Re: UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format files

2000-12-08 Thread James Kass
John Cowan wrote of problems with the *.UNI files... This browser loads them just fine, but perhaps this is because I "associated" *.UNI files with the browser in the Windows file type configurations? Best regards, James Kass. - Original Message - From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format files

2000-12-08 Thread John Cowan
James Kass wrote: > Try looking at the *.UNI files under the FIVE BOOKS directory: > http://www.unicode.org/Public/TEXT/ Regrettably, the www.unicode.org server is labeling these files text/html instead of text/plain, which is causing the browser to mishandle them. Her Divine Effulgency is here

Re: UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format files

2000-12-08 Thread James Kass
- Original Message - From: "Song Moong Er" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 5:35 PM Subject: UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format files > Hello, > > I am new to this mailing list. Hope it is appropriate to ask the following > qu

Re: Did I do this right?

2000-12-08 Thread James Kass
Robert Lozyniak wrote about Japanese text on the web. On this system, the Japanese text at the bottom of the > http://11digitboy.stormloader.com page did not display until "Shift-JIS" was selected as the encoding in the browser, except for the two kana that were expressed in the source (HTML) as