RE: UTFs, ACEs, and English horns

2001-06-18 Thread Yves Arrouye
Also check out the sites of the IETF IDN WG (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idn- charter.html, and http://www.i-d-n.net/) for more information that you may have wished for. Oops. Sorry, I only saw James's answer. You obviously read these. Well, I hope my English horns pages were new

RE: UTFs, ACEs, and English horns

2001-06-18 Thread Yves Arrouye
Also check out the sites of the IETF IDN WG (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/idn-charter.html, and http://www.i-d-n.net/) for more information that you may have wished for. Except on English horns, that is; but then you may want to visit http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~gbrowne/geoff9.htm and

Everything you ever wanted to know about Osmanya

2001-06-18 Thread Michael Everson
If you're interested in Osmanya, the following 7.5 MB file is doubtless just what you are looking for. See http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/pdf/afkeenna-iyo-fartiisa.pdf -- Michael Everson

Re: UTFs, ACEs, and English horns

2001-06-18 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Doug Ewell expostulated: Now, upon visiting the Internet Drafts index once again, I see a proliferation of ACEs, including schemes called BRACE and DUNCE. (I can't tell from the spec whether DUNCE is intended as a joke or not, and I think that says a lot.) The big question now is which

RE: UTFs, ACEs, and English horns

2001-06-18 Thread Ayers, Mike
From: James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] There's already 2 Perl modules on CPAN that implement ACE. These modules are already in use by ISPs for CJKV iDNS registration. (One was packaged by me based on Paul Hoffman's IMC code.) They are based on draft-ietf-idn-race-02.txt So it seems

Re: FSS-UTF, UTF-2, UTF-8, and UTF-16

2001-06-18 Thread Jianping Yang
Mark Davis wrote: You are correct about the published definitions. As I recall, though, we were referring to UTF-FSS as UTF-8 in the UTC meetings before it was changed to account for UTF-16. In any event, I don't know whether Oracle was involved in those discussions or not, or whether

Re: FSS-UTF, UTF-2, UTF-8, and UTF-16

2001-06-18 Thread Tex Texin
Jianping, It's a reasonable set of requirements you laid out. However, with respect to this last paragraph, as Unicode 3.1 did not exist when 8i was current, is it not unreasonable to insist that users wanting to work with 3.1, or in particular supplementary characters, first must upgrade?

Re: FSS-UTF, UTF-2, UTF-8, and UTF-16

2001-06-18 Thread Markus Scherer
There is one statement that appears to want to be framed: Jianping Yang wrote: [...] When Unicode came to version 2.1, we found our AL24UTFFSS had trouble for 2.1 as Hangul's reallocation, and we could not simply update AL24UTFFSS to 2.1 definition as it would mess existing users' data in

Re: FSS-UTF, UTF-2, UTF-8, and UTF-16

2001-06-18 Thread Jianping Yang
Markus Scherer wrote: This means that Oracle mis-implemented the UTF-8 standard as it was specified at that time, starting at least with Unicode 2.0. No, Oracle does not mis-implement the UTF-8 standard but only limit its support to BMP only. Except the backward compatibility reason,

Needs Analysis for UTF-8s

2001-06-18 Thread Carl W. Brown
Toby, I believe that Peoplesoft does not have a unique problem. A just say no to UTF-8s attitude does not solve your problem or the problem of other companies in your situation. The problem that I see with the UTF-8s proposal is that it needs different support than UTF-8. What do UTF-8