Re: Web Form: Old Russian charcaters

2003-02-07 Thread Vladimir Ivanov
Please, have a look at the characters in the range 0460 - 0486 in the font Arial Unicode MS shipped with Office XP. May be those are the characters you are looking for. Can anyone on the Unicode list help? Thanks, Magda -Original Message- Date/Time:Thu Jan 16 13:11:06 EST

Re: Plane 14 Tag Deprecation Issue (was Re: VS vs. P14 (was Re: Indic Devanagari Query))

2003-02-07 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 11:54 AM 2/6/03 -0800, Kenneth Whistler wrote: My personal opinion? The whole debate about deprecation of language tag characters is a frivolous distraction from other technical matters of greater import, and things would be just fine with the current state of the documentation. But, if formal

Unicode and Encoding Problems in Browsers

2003-02-07 Thread Muhammad Asif
Hi, I actually want to enter some Arabic text in simple HTML text box . I set language in my Windows XP settings to Arabic. When i tried to type, there are certain characters that are not displayed. Instead rectangles are displayed. Characters are from Unicode BMP which is supposed to be

Re: VS vs. P14 (was Re: Indic Devanagari Query)

2003-02-07 Thread Andrew C. West
John H. Jenkins wrote: Ah, but decorative motifs are not plain text. Ah, but it could be.

Re: Plane 14 Tag Deprecation Issue (was Re: VS vs. P14 (was Re: Indic Devanagari Query))

2003-02-07 Thread William Overington
I feel that as the matter was put forward for Public Review then it is reasonable for someone reading of that review to respond to the review on the basis of what is stated as the issue in the Public Review item itself. Kenneth Whistler now states an opinion as to what the review is about and

Re: Unicode and Encoding Problems in Browsers

2003-02-07 Thread Otto Stolz
Muhammad Asif wrote: When i tried to type, there are certain characters that are not displayed. Instead rectangles are displayed. This is the typical behaviour if the font in use does not comprise a particular character. Either, there is no suitable font installed on your system, or the

Re: Unicode and Encoding Problems in Browsers

2003-02-07 Thread Shlomi Tal
I'd like to mention that this problem which Muhammad Asif brings forth is an extant one in my circle of work. I work as PC technician, and one complaint I often get in tech support calls is that the user is unable to type Hebrew in the Search box in the MSN Israel website (msn.co.il) under

Handwritten EURO sign

2003-02-07 Thread Marion Gunn
I wonder if any Unicoders have seen the handwritten EURO sign which differs substantially from the usual computer-generated kind? The one on the banknotes (lefthanded Crescent Moon with double bar) is quite unlike one used around here (rounded reversed digit THREE with double bar). Any ideas?

Re: Handwritten EURO sign

2003-02-07 Thread Michael Everson
At 14:42 + 2003-02-07, Marion Gunn wrote: I wonder if any Unicoders have seen the handwritten EURO sign which differs substantially from the usual computer-generated kind? I have seen a C with an equals sign inside it not touching the C. The one on the banknotes (lefthanded Crescent Moon

RE: Handwritten EURO sign

2003-02-07 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Marion Gunn wrote: I wonder if any Unicoders have seen the handwritten EURO sign which differs substantially from the usual computer-generated kind? In Italy, it is becoming common to see a sort of left parenthesis crossed by a small Z. Notice that this is very similar to a common

Re: Handwritten EURO sign

2003-02-07 Thread Eric Muller
The latest issue of Baseline (www.baselinemagazine.com) has an article on the Euro. I did not read it, so I don't know if it speaks of handwritten forms. Sign of the times: the euro currency symbol by Conor Mangat. Eric.

Re: Plane 14 Tag Deprecation Issue (was Re: VS vs. P14 (was Re: IndicDevanagari Query))

2003-02-07 Thread Markus Scherer
William Overington wrote: Kenneth Whistler now states an opinion as to what the review is about and mentions a file PropList.txt of which I was previously unaware. Kenneth Whistler referred to a file that is part of the publicicly and freely provided Unicode Character Database, showing various

Re: CJK test data

2003-02-07 Thread Markus Scherer
Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: GB18030 does not define a specific standard for sorting (as far as I know, neither does GB13000). It is an encoding standard. GB 18030 certainly does not define sorting. It defines a CCS/CES based on a mapping table to/from Unicode/ISO 10646. GB 13000 is, as far

RE: CJK test data

2003-02-07 Thread Erik.Ostermueller
Markus wrote: For general test data for determining support of GB 18030 I suggest to contact the Chinese government and its standards agency. They have defined a certification procedure, and I assume that the data and procedure are available. I have no direct

Re: VS vs. P14 (was Re: Indic Devanagari Query)

2003-02-07 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 01:52 AM 2/7/03 -0800, Andrew C. West wrote: Ah, but decorative motifs are not plain text. Ah, but it could be. Ah, but it wouldn't be Unicode. A(h)./