I have created a VB6.0 database application for WWF (World Wide Fund for
Nature not World Wrestling Federation!). The program is used to record
assessments of management effectiveness in Protected Areas. It is designed
to run in 5 languages, English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. All of
Kenneth,
Thank you so much for the *definitive* statement on Yen vs.
backslash issue. and others in questions. May I include this in Encode
document which may either be integrated to perl-5.8.0 distribution, or
distributed separately via CPAN?
(Well, I may simply add a link
Dan the Encode
At 23:44 3/27/2002, Asmus Freytag wrote:
That's what's supposed to happen, when system and font designers correctly
implement the mirrored glyphs.
It might be a good idea if someone explained to us font designers exactly
what is required of us. Some mirrored forms such as the parentheses, are
Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote:
Meanwhile, the answer to your question is: Yes this data is
copyrighted.
I will follow up in more details offline.
What is the policy for using these bitmaps on a website? By using I mean
inserting them on a web page by pointing the IMG's address to the Unicode
Munzir Taha wrote:
No: common characters, such as parentheses or double quotes
are supported
even on my system. So, the mechanism is already in place on
many systems.
Please, execuse me but I need more explanation in this issue.
When I need to enter parentheses or double quotes, I
At 4:36 PM -0600 3/27/02, David Starner wrote:
Why isn't there exterior evidence? IIRC, there was some traffic between
the Roman empire and parts east; given the detail of Chinese history,
can't some Chinese emperor be matched to a Roman emperor and years be
counted off from there? It really
Barry James wrote:
I have created a VB6.0 database application for WWF (World
Wide Fund for Nature not World Wrestling Federation!).
Oh, well, if it is for the whales, I'll try to be helpful. :-)
[...]
My gut feeling is that I should stick with the Access 2000
version and try to convert
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
I'm not sure there was close enough contact to make that sort of
correlation. There was trade between India and China and the Roman
Empire, but probably a lot of it was of the form Chinese merchant
trades with Indian merchant trades with Persian merchant trades
I did ask a historian friend who specializes in the Middle East about
this recently. He told me that the Islamic world really didn't take
much notice of Europe until after the period in question so it's not
really possible to match up the Islamic calendar to events in Europe
during or
In this thread, the name Illig has been mentioned a few times. Here is
some information about his book(s) on the subject:
Heribert Illig : Wer hat an der Uhr gedreht ? (Wie 300 Jahre Mittelalter
erfunden wurden) ISBN 3-612-26561-X, ECON Verlag
This book is in German language, I have not seen
Kenneth Whistler wrote:
Hmm. I see. So 54 popes in the official Catholic chronology,
from St Gregory I (the Great) through John IX (or something
along those lines) just didn't exist, and were all invented
by chroniclers who had a great occasion for dynasties and
kings. Along with everything
This is all thoroughly covered in TUS 3.0.
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 05:33 PM, Stefan Persson wrote:
Can someone please tell me what the characters in the Ideographic
description characters block are used for? Is U+2FF0 U+5973 ($B=w(B) U+5B50
($B;R(B)
identical to U+597D
Congratulation on the birth of Unicode 3.2. :-)
I found the following addition which is useful for correct handling of hangul
compatibility jamo.
But, i suspect it does not help IDN nameprep, while it will clearly help ordinary
hangul text applications.
The U+200B and U+FFEF ( --- U+2060 by
At 3:32 PM +0100 3/28/02, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
But it is not strictly necessary that any pope did not exist: 300 years
could be the sum of many little errors in the biographies of many popes.
Imagining that historians extended some popes' lifes by a two or three years
(maybe unintentionally,
Marco Cimarosti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I try to search the archives of the Unicode List, I am
requested for a used id and a password.
Is this section reserved to members? If not, how is it possible to
register?
Second paragraph on the page:
To access or search these archives, you
From: Marco Cimarosti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In case 1, you just have a font problem: the Cyrillic characters are there
but the font you use doesn't have glyphs for them. Although I don't expect
that this is the problem, you could fix it by setting each control's font
face to a proper font. E.g.:
John Hudson wrote:
It might be a good idea if someone explained to us font designers
exactly what is required of us. Some mirrored forms such as the
parentheses, are being handled in character processing, not glyph
processing, and I have yet to see any set of requirements (e.g. in
My first and last post on this (off-) topic.
Alain LaBonté [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This document says: If 16 centuries had passed since Caesar's
introduction of his calendar, the Julian calendar in Gregory's
time would have been out of sync with the astronomical situation
by 13 days, not 10.
It
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
At 1:28 PM + 3/28/02, Alistair Vining wrote:
I'm bearing in mind Sarasvati's imprecation to keep this innocent,
non-denominational, and non-violent, but:
Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours, 732: Three Accounts
Doug Ewell wrote:
Second paragraph on the page:
To access or search these archives, you must authenticate yourself
with a user name and password. (This is a measure to discourage
trolling of the archives by spammers.) Guest access may be obtained
by entering the user name unicode-ml
Eric Muller wrote:
[...] what makes the selection of a shape appropriate for
rtl or ltr context any different? in particular, why
should we rule out the use of an alternate shape for A
based on the directionality?
This is particularly relevant for alphabets (such as Old Italic or Greek)
Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
cmdMyButton.Caption = Чао а тутто ил мондо!
cmdMyButton.Font.Name = MyCyrillicFont
Well, this will be work if you are on compiling a Cyrillic system --
otherwise you cannot have Cyrillic strings in the code.
Yes, correct. My real code actually called a
Marco... The answer is clearly stated on the page. This is a case of
simply needing to read and observe. The mail archive HTML page says:
To access or search these archives, you must authenticate
yourself with a user name and password. (This is a measure
to discourage
From: Marco Cimarosti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The add-in assumes you will add an init call to each form's
load event.
But, with this approach, you cannot change the language *after* the form
is
loaded. So you can't, for instance, implement a Language menu, or link a
language to a user id.
Twenty-second International Unicode Conference (IUC22)
Unicode and the Web: Evolution or Revolution?
http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc22
September 9-13, 2002
San Jose, California
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Doug Ewell wrote:
My first and last post on this (off-) topic.
The same by me :-)
Alain LaBonté [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This document says: If 16 centuries had passed since Caesar's
introduction of his calendar, the Julian calendar in Gregory's
time would have been
Elliotte Rusty Harold recently said:
What's really needed to conclusively disprove this hypothesis is a
verifiable event well in the middle of the problematic years that can
be dated both backwards and forwards in time; i.e. that can be
established as N years before the present and X
A potential problem with lunar eclipses is that the cycle repeats every 18
and a bit years, and this has been known for a long time. So a really
ingenious faker could have cut out an appropriate number of years. Seems a
bit of a leap though to realise that eclipses could be used to verify
OK, so I lied about not posting any more on this topic. Gotta weed out
the hoaxes, though.
Timothy Partridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As for the number of days out of sync since Julius Caesar's time,
I don't have the full details but the calendar had problems after
Julius changed it. His
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