Alain LaBonté [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PS the 8' is a Greek ligature, in fact an u (psilon) on top of an o
(omicron), so 8 is an abuse, the character is completely open on its
top.
The actual character is encoded in Unicode/UCS. The 8endat language
also
uses a Greek theta in addition to the
Doug Ewell wrote:
OK, here it is:
How many of you can read that?
I can, using Netscape 6.2 under Windows 98 SE.
Even if your mailer supports Unicode, you're lucky if your font
supports U+0222 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OU.
That mailer will display any letter supported by some accessible font.
- Original Message -
From: Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: ISO 3166 (country codes) Maintenance Agency Web pages move
At 01:27 + 2002-02-25, John Clews wrote:
In passing, I too
Good Evening,
can somebody pls. explain to me dummy, what the long threats about
R(o|u)mania, Canada, California, Yankees, and Initials in various
countries..
have to do with Unicode?
Maybe I don't understand the deeper implications not yet? ;)
Cheers,
Stefan
At 10:16 + 2002-02-26, J M Sykes wrote:
The one 2-letter code that *ought* to be changed is GB, which
should be changed to UK.
--
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
I'll strenuously support that!
But what would we do with GBR?
Truncating Kingdom:
Mark Crispin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed, the only
immediately obvious advantage of ROU is that it provides a better
mnemonic
code for the *French* name of the country, Roumanie.
Unless it is to indicate that its nationals are Romanian and not Rom
(a.k.a.
gypsy).
ISO 3166 is a
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:35:33PM -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
OK, here it is:
Ȣendat
How many of you can read that? Even if your mailer supports Unicode,
you're lucky if your font supports U+0222 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OU.
Of course they cover it. There are certain perks to using the
Mark Crispin wrote:
In the case of
Romanians and Gypsies, you have two very different peoples, each
with a strong sense of identity, who do not want to be confused
with the other.
Passports, however, are issued by the Romanian state to citizens of
that state as such, and not in their
A 13:16 2002-02-26 -0500, John Cowan a écrit :
If Germany can maintain the
lex sanguinis into the 21st century,
[Alain] I was recently told that this principle was abolished in Germany
at the very very end of XXth Century. And that sounds good news indeed...
Alain LaBonté
Québec
Doug Ewell wrote:
SC UniPad can read and write text files:
- using LF, CR, CRLF, or LS (U+2028);
Great, and I know about UniPad, but more people have Windows Notepad and other
system-level editors.
Why does UniPad not support NL and PS?
One thing it cannot do is maintain different line
Markus Scherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why does UniPad not support NL and PS?
I don't work for Sharmahd, so the following is speculation.
Despite what UAX #13 says, I don't know of any editor or other text tool
that handles U+0085 as a newline character. The big debate has always
been
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