RE: Netscape is behind

2001-07-31 Thread TAKAHASHI Makoto
The Ruby became recommendation, but Mozilla people are not going to support it soon, as discussed below. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9 TAKAHASHI Makoto -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of てんどうりゅうじ Sent:

RE: Re[2]: Errata in language/script list

2001-07-31 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Mike Ayers wrote: From: Kenneth Whistler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Also, I see that the script for Chinese is listed as Han, not Chinese. Must we insist on confusing people? The script in question is designated Han in the Unicode Standard, and has always been so, in part

Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

2001-07-31 Thread Kairat A. Rakhim
Hello,I have notes about languages of former USSR included in the list.In 1930th almost all of them have been written in Latin script known as 'Unified New Turkic Alphabet',.or in its derivatives (Common Northern Alphabet etc). It should be emphasized that these Latin-based alphabets

Re: Does anyone know if there is a convertor that can convert UTF-8 to Shift-JIS?

2001-07-31 Thread James Kass
Foster Feng wrote: Does anyone know if there is a convertor that can convert UTF-8 to Shift-JIS? Try uniconv.exe by Basis Technology. It is distributed for free as a demo of the Rosette library; download from http://rosette.basistech.com/demo.html The link has been changed

Re: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

2001-07-31 Thread Valeriy E. Ushakov
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 17:58:57 +0700, Kairat A. Rakhim wrote: Nenets Latin, Cyrillic What is 'Netets'? http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/Russia/Society_and_Culture/Nationalities/Arctic_and_Siberian/Nenets/

Re: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

2001-07-31 Thread Peter_Constable
On 07/31/2001 05:58:57 AM Kairat A. Rakhim wrote: Cherkessian, Crimean Tatar, Kumyk, Nivkh are not yet presented in the list. It's my understanding that the Nivkh Cyrillic writing system requires a couple of characters that are not yet in Unicode. These same characters are also required for

Re: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

2001-07-31 Thread James Kass
Kairat A. Rakhim wrote, I have notes about languages of former USSR included in the list. In 1930th almost all of them have been written in Latin script known as 'Unified New Turkic Alphabet',.or in its derivatives (Common Northern Alphabet etc). It should be emphasized that these

Re: Does anyone know if there is a convertor that can convert UTF-8 to Shift-JIS?

2001-07-31 Thread Frank da Cruz
James Kass wrote: Foster Feng wrote: Does anyone know if there is a convertor that can convert UTF-8 to Shift-JIS? Try uniconv.exe by Basis Technology. It is distributed for free as a demo of the Rosette library; download from http://rosette.basistech.com/demo.html It's a big

RE: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

2001-07-31 Thread Hohberger, Clive
Tundra Nenets, together with Forest Nenets, forms the Nenets group of languages, which belongs to the Samoyed branch of the Finno-Ugrian (Uralic) language family. Nenets was formerly known as Yurak or Yurak Samoyed, both now obsolete. Clive -Original Message- From: Valeriy E.

BMAC Seal Redux: the Sceptices, and a color picture

2001-07-31 Thread Martin Heijdra
Todays NYT has a follow-up todat to the BMAC Seal, hotly debated here: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/science/social/31SEAL.html Martin Heijdra Chinese Bibliographer Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections Room 317 Princeton University 33 Frist Campus Center Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

RE: Re[2]: Errata in language/script list

2001-07-31 Thread Thomas Chan
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: BTW, I notice that a single Chinese entry is listed. This should probably be split in several entries for the various Chinese languages (or dialects, e.g. Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, etc.). This split may be handy because the different languages

Re: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

2001-07-31 Thread James Kass
Peter Constable wrote, It's my understanding that the Nivkh Cyrillic writing system requires a couple of characters that are not yet in Unicode. These same characters are also required for Yupik (Central Siberian Yupik, I think -- maybe other varieties as well). For a nice illustration

RE: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

2001-07-31 Thread Marco Cimarosti
James Kass wrote: Peter Constable wrote, It's my understanding that the Nivkh Cyrillic writing system requires a couple of characters that are not yet in Unicode. These same characters are also required for Yupik (Central Siberian Yupik, I think -- maybe other varieties as well).

Re: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

2001-07-31 Thread Rick McGowan
On 07/31/2001 05:58:57 AM Kairat A. Rakhim wrote: Cherkessian, Crimean Tatar, Kumyk, Nivkh are not yet presented in the list. Peter C responded: It's my understanding that the Nivkh Cyrillic writing system requires a couple of characters that are not yet in Unicode. Can someone propose

FW: microsoft font link

2001-07-31 Thread Magda Danish (Unicode)
Can someone from Microsoft answer this. Thanks. Magda. -Original Message- From: J Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: microsoft font link hello http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/products.html that page links to 2

Nivkh ( was: RE: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages)

2001-07-31 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Marco said: James Kass wrote: Peter Constable wrote, It's my understanding that the Nivkh Cyrillic writing system requires a couple of characters that are not yet in Unicode. These same characters are also required for Yupik (Central Siberian Yupik, I think -- maybe other

Re: Errata in language/script list: xUSSR languages

2001-07-31 Thread James Kass
Marco Cimarosti wrote, For a nice illustration of the Nivkh alphabet: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~bergmann/russia/alphabets/nivkh.htm Seems to me that, using composing diacritics, all letters can be encoded: 410 411 412 413 492 413+321 414 415 401

RE: microsoft font link

2001-07-31 Thread Chris Pratley
The font Arial Unicode MS is not free for download. You must be a licensed user of an Office Family product from the 2000 or XP generation. If you have Office2000 or OfficeXp, Arial Unicode MS comes on the CD of the product. If you have Publisher2000, you can go to http://office.microsoft.com and