18th Unicode Conference, April 2001, Hong Kong -- Latest news

2001-03-28 Thread Lisa Moore
Folks, Some updates on the Hong Kong Unicode conference - the hotel rooms are going fast, so I encourage you to register and make your hotel reservation soon. Thanks and hope to see many of you next month! Lisa Eighteenth International Unicode Conference (IUC18) Un

New version of Fribidi

2001-03-28 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Dear Friends, [First of all, sorry if you receive this more than once, I just think that it's of interest to all these lists I'm posting to... Please ignore the spamming.] This is to announce that FriBidi version 0.9.0 is out, based on a major rewrite, made by Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Administrative topics

2001-03-28 Thread Sarasvati
Two administrative topics. One: The [unicode] tag on this mail list has been removed. The ratio of users who politely expressed delight to users who vehemently expressed disgust was approximately 4:7. An interesting ratio. Thank you for your participation in this experiment. Two: Recentl

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Leisher
Jungshik> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Leisher wrote: >> Oops. I missed a spot. Jungshik> Isn't this mistake implying that you're still in favor of 'sed' Jungshik> over 'perl' for this kind of simple operation :-) ? S. Don't tell anyone :-) Jungshik> It seems to me a bit

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-28 Thread Yaap Pranger
At 11:58 +0200 2001.03.27, Michael Everson wrote: >At 18:04 +0200 2001-03-26, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > >>I cannot find a message by typing the first few letters of the >>subject (because they are always... guess what) > >Yes, this is the worst "feature" of this little experiment of >Sarasvati's.

[unicode] Unicode ANSI standard functions....

2001-03-28 Thread Dennis L. Goyette Sr.
Are there ANSI standard functions for displaying Unicode characters in C or C++

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-28 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > Mark Leisher wrote: > > >> Those whom can filter their mail also can alter the > > subject line easily with, for example, small perl script. > > > > % perl -ne 's/\[unicode\]// if (/^Subject:/);' messagefile > > I'd really need a thing like that but,

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-28 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Leisher wrote: > Oops. I missed a spot. Isn't this mistake implying that you're still in favor of 'sed' over 'perl' for this kind of simple operation :-) ? It seems to me a bit ironic that those who must be aware of all sorts of sed/awk wizadry try to do everything t

[unicode] Re: Unicode editing

2001-03-28 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Jonathan Coxhead wrote: >Consider > > RLE a b c PDF RLE d e f PDF > > in an LTR region (where a, b, ... are neutral). This displays as > > cbafed No, I think it displays as: fedcba (Read on...) > i e, 2 RTL runs in LTR order. If you encode that as > > a b c d

[unicode] Re: Unicode editing

2001-03-28 Thread Jonathan Coxhead
On 28 Mar 01, at 12:02, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > > struct MyWysiwygGlyph > > > { > > > wchar_t GlyphCode; > > > int EmbeddingLevel; > > > }; > > > I think that Roozbeh had something quite similar in mind. > > > > Yes. I was not sure that if that's enoug

[unicode] Re: Windows 2000 and Arabic?

2001-03-28 Thread Antoine Leca
Mark Leisher wrote: > > BTW, sorry for posting this here, but I can't seem to find another forum that > deals with this sort of thing at the moment. Any pointers would be gratefully > accepted. What about news:microsoft.public.win32.programmer.international> ? Antoine

[unicode] Re: "Not exactly"

2001-03-28 Thread James E. Agenbroad
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Tony Graham wrote: > At 27 Mar 2001 12:37 -0500, James E. Agenbroad wrote: > > On page 125 of the 2000 cumulation of 'Computer literature index' under > > the subject heading 'Conversion' the annotation for "Unicode: a primer" by > > Tony Graham says: "Unicode is a progra

[unicode] Re: Unicode editing

2001-03-28 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > struct MyWysiwygGlyph > > { > > wchar_t GlyphCode; > > int EmbeddingLevel; > > }; > > I think that Roozbeh had something quite similar in mind. > > Yes. I was not sure that i