RE: Re: Regd- ISCII to Unicode Converter!

2002-04-05 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Ram Viswanadha wrote: 2) RA+HALANT+INV = RAsup (RA+HALANT+ZWJ is treated as Eyelash RA which is may not be the desired effect) I have pointed out this problem several times but, so far, there was no reply. I hope that you are more successful in bringing this to the

Re: UCD 3.2.0

2002-04-05 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Theo Venker wrote: I'd like to make a few remarks about the UCD files. First of all, while I'd like to thank Theo for going to the trouble of checking the data files so carefully, and coming up with some genuine errors in the data, I have a couple of comments for people who are checking and

Re: UCD 3.2.0

2002-04-05 Thread John Cowan
Theo Veenker scripsit: o UnicodeData-3.2.0.txt still uses this notation: 1234;Blah, First;Lo;0;L;N; 5678;Blah, Last;Lo;0;L;N; instead of 1234..5678;Blah, First..Blah, Last;Lo;0;L;N; Since all other UCD files use the latter notation why

Re: conversion performance: UTF-8 BOCU-1 SCSU

2002-04-05 Thread Markus Scherer
With a small improvement to the single-byte loop, the BOCU-1 converter became faster. This improves especially the speed for Latin text conversion. Please see new numbers at http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/dropbox/bocuperf.html markus

Re: Unicode Tech Notes

2002-04-05 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Asmus, At 01:03 PM 4/5/02 -0800, Kenneth Whistler wrote: That is how it already works for the IUC papers we have posted. We're not claiming any joint copyright on those. Yes, actually the conference does. O.k. yes, you're right. I see that that is how Barbara is doing the Proceedings. She

updated: Compelling Unicode Example

2002-04-05 Thread Tex Texin
Hi, Just fyi, I have updated my example page for business use for Unicode. http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html Mostly I cleaned up the formatting and moved the contributors column to an acknowledgement at the end of the page. I also moved more of the doc to use CSS for styling.

Re: Unicode Tech Notes

2002-04-05 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 01:48 PM 4/5/02 -0800, Kenneth Whistler wrote: I disagree about this -- and still think Rick has it right. Part of this difference in viewpoint may come from your apparent viewing of Technical Notes as a breeding ground for little Technical Reports that aren't quite ripe yet. Or script

Re: how can I write an arabic square root- I think I've understood a little.-thanks and why

2002-04-05 Thread Eric Muller
Munzir Taha wrote: Third, I am still searching for the right font but can't find it yet. Can you help me? I was looking at some old type book, specifically at the Linotype Pi characters catalog, and they apparently had an Arabic Maths Pi family with two fonts. Those fonts have mirorred

Re: Re: Regd- ISCII to Unicode Converter!

2002-04-05 Thread Ram Viswanadha
Marco, Why do you say that these are not round-trip compatible? The point I was trying to make is conversion of INV-ZWJ can be thought as being kind of fallback, you might be able to roundtrip in most cases but not all. I do agree the conversions you pointed out can be roundtripped. But does

Re: Re: Regd- ISCII to Unicode Converter!

2002-04-05 Thread Mark Davis
Have you checked out http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/indic.html#16? Mark — Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς [For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr] http://www.macchiato.com - Original Message - From: Ram Viswanadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marco Cimarosti [EMAIL