Re: Opentype support under Liunx

2001-08-22 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Alejandros Diamandidis wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2001, David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and there's also no working scaled font editors for Unix (that I've ever heard of), There is at least one, PfaEdit: http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/ It's still beta, but it

Why Arabic Shaping?

2001-08-22 Thread David Starner
I got a reply on the Why Arabic Shaping thread. Since [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces mail from non-subscribers, I'm sending this for him. I didn't mention last time that it's a list for the Arabization of _Unix_, so the questions are slanted in that direction. - Forwarded message from Nadim

exchanging Arabic data in utf-8

2001-08-22 Thread Iman Saad
Dear list members, I am developing an educational site in Arabic. All html pages are in unicode (utf-8). The site contains pages with forms which the user fills out in Arabic and sends to the server. These forms are handled by a cgi script written in perl. The script sends the form content

important notice about icu gb 18030 xml table

2001-08-22 Thread Markus Scherer
To anyone who is looking at the GB 18030 xml mapping file in our charset repository at http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/charset/data/xml/gb-18030-2000.xml We found - thanks to Carl Brown's questions - that we had checked in an incorrect file, different from the correct file that we had

Re: Opentype support under Liunx

2001-08-22 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, David Starner wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:55:00PM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: I'm studying ways to provide Linux with unicode-compliant Myanmar character fonts. Mark Leisure use .bdf format to enable to enter unicode values easily for some Indic fonts.

Re: Opentype support under Liunx

2001-08-22 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Dear William, The author of Pango is Owen Taylor, and you can reach him as otaylor at redhat.com. I would very strongly suggest that you do so. Owen has been doing a great job, and I personally have no doubt that Pango is the future of multilingual text display under Unix-like systems. Adding

Re: exchanging Arabic data in utf-8

2001-08-22 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: Iman Saad [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried adding the following header in the section of the cgi script that includes the html code, but that did not change anything: META HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type CONTENT=text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8 If you look at the following link (all on one line)

RE: Nonsense in http://www.unicode.org/Public/PROGRAMS/CVTUTF/CVTUTF.C?

2001-08-22 Thread Carl W. Brown
Marcin, The code is a bit out of date. I have some routines that have been updated for the new Unicode standard and some additional optimization that you can use at: http://www.xnetinc.com/xiua/ This code is not as discrete as the other but it should not be hard to isolate. You can see that