RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code

2001-03-12 Thread Michael Everson
At 10:13 -0800 2001-03-11, John H. Jenkins wrote: Au contraire, Deseret is quite well-known in LDS circles. Most Mormons who grew up in the Church have at least heard of it. It isn't extensively used, by any means, but there really are people out there who do want to use it on their computers.

Re: Unicode web ring!

2001-03-12 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Tex Texin wrote: Requesting to join will give you a form to fill out and sends me a request to approve your site being added. It may take me some time to process the requests. When the site is approved you are sent a line of javascript to add to your web page which

Japanese display on Unix netscape ?

2001-03-12 Thread Parvinder Singh(EHPT)
Title: Japanese display on Unix netscape ? Hi, I want certain help ... I am able to see japanese characters in java applet on Netscape browser 4.7 on NT (while activating Richwin utility on my NT workstation ) but not using netscape 4.7 on Solaris ? My oracle database resides on Solaris

Re: Unicode web ring!

2001-03-12 Thread Tex Texin
ok, I am looking into it. Roozbeh Pournader wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Tex Texin wrote: Requesting to join will give you a form to fill out and sends me a request to approve your site being added. It may take me some time to process the requests. When the site is approved you are

RE: Final letters in Hebrew and Arabic

2001-03-12 Thread James E. Agenbroad
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Jonathan Rosenne wrote: Regarding Hebrew: -Original Message- From: Nick NICHOLAS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:12 PM To: Unicode List Cc: Nick NICHOLAS Subject: Final letters in Hebrew and Arabic (1) When a letter with a

RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code

2001-03-12 Thread Thomas Chan
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: Thomas Chan wrote: How about the case of a retailer who needs to deal with parts for elevators and needs U+282E2, lip 'elevator'? Or neckties, requiring U+27639, taai 'tie'. I am not seeking excuses to not implement UTF-16 -- rather examples

Re: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code

2001-03-12 Thread John Jenkins
On Sunday, March 11, 2001, at 12:26 PM, Lars Marius Garshol wrote: How will the Japanese encode these JIS X 0213 characters? That is, what effect, if any, will this have on the legacy Japanese character encodings? Are there plans to extend ISO 2022-JP or EUC-JP, or for some entirely new

RE: Unicode market acceptance

2001-03-12 Thread Suzanne M. Topping
-Original Message- From: Richard Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Recently looking at and talking about this http://i18n.homepage.com/UnicodeBenefits.html with some people, initiated and uninitiated, I quickly wrote this:

Re: Unicode market acceptance

2001-03-12 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Joel Rees, who posted here in some unrelated threads, has several issues about things that Unicode does not cover (but that he thinks should be covered). I am not sure if that counts as a con or not? It would depend on how important these features. how whard they are to implement with Unicode on

FW: Arabic Script.

2001-03-12 Thread Magda Danish (Unicode)
-Original Message- From: Nidhal Zarrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Arabic Script. Dear Madam/Sir I hope you would help me with the following problem: I am trying to write a program that displays Arabic words in DOS

Unicode webring

2001-03-12 Thread Tex Texin
The webring functionality seems to be working now, if you would like to join. http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/index.html -- According to Murphy, nothing goes according to Hoyle. -- Tex Texin

Re: Unicode webring

2001-03-12 Thread Misha Wolf
What I want to know is whether we get a Unicode ring to wear. Misha On 12/03/2001 21:54:33 Tex Texin wrote: The webring functionality seems to be working now, if you would like to join. http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/index.html -- According to Murphy, nothing goes according to

Re: Unicode webring

2001-03-12 Thread Misha Wolf
I've swallowed it. Is that what I was meant to do? Misha On 12/03/2001 22:57:24 Tex Texin wrote: Yes, as soon as I decide which body part we all have to pierce. Meanwhile, the attached is for you Misha! tex Misha Wolf wrote: What I want to know is whether we get a Unicode ring to

Re: Unicode webring

2001-03-12 Thread Tex Texin
Yes, as soon as I decide which body part we all have to pierce. Meanwhile, the attached is for you Misha! tex Misha Wolf wrote: What I want to know is whether we get a Unicode ring to wear. Misha

Re: Unicode webring

2001-03-12 Thread Tex Texin
I hope you don't have to go thru any metal detectors in airports for a few days. Misha Wolf wrote: I've swallowed it. Is that what I was meant to do? Misha On 12/03/2001 22:57:24 Tex Texin wrote: Yes, as soon as I decide which body part we all have to pierce. Meanwhile, the

RE: Unicode webring

2001-03-12 Thread Ayers, Mike
From: Misha Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] What I want to know is whether we get a Unicode ring to wear. Misha Only if you join the UniClub(tm)! Kids who join the UniClub get a secret decoder Unicode webring, Cima's magic pocket encoder (handy for encoding magic pockets),

RE: Final letters in Hebrew and Arabic

2001-03-12 Thread Timothy Partridge
James Agenbroad recently said: On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Jonathan Rosenne wrote: Regarding Hebrew: -Original Message- From: Nick NICHOLAS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:12 PM To: Unicode List Cc: Nick NICHOLAS Subject: Final letters in

Re: Unicode webring

2001-03-12 Thread John Jenkins
On Monday, March 12, 2001, at 02:14 PM, Misha Wolf wrote: What I want to know is whether we get a Unicode ring to wear. You mean the one with the entire standard inscribed on it? = John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/

RE: Final letters in Hebrew and Arabic

2001-03-12 Thread Jonathan Rosenne
Both systems exist, but it is more common not to assign a special meaning to the final letters. See http://www.qsm.co.il/Hebrew/Gimatria.htm Jony -Original Message- From: Timothy Partridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 1:05 AM To: Unicode List Cc: [EMAIL

Unicode font repository?

2001-03-12 Thread 11digitboy
Anybody know of a Unicode font repository? Is there a Unicode version of Fraktur? I can't help but wonder how the hiragana would look. Some, like "ya" would doubtless adapt very prettily, but like "nu"? *** JUUICHIKETAJIN *** ___