Re: Custom fonts (was: Tolkien wanta-be)

2003-03-19 Thread Doug Ewell
Pim Blokland pblokland at planet dot nl wrote: Now what you do in the privacy of your own home is none of our concern, but when communicating with the outside world, there are certain rules and guidelines you should abide by. And one of those guidelines is a plaintext file should not have PUA

Characters not in Sindhi

2003-03-19 Thread Lateef Sagar
Some characters are not in Sindhi language but their description says that they are in Sindhi: 068E ARABIC LETTER DUL - Sindhi 06B2 ARABIC LETTER GAF WITH TWO DOTS BELOW - Sindhi 06B4 ARABIC LETTER GAF WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE - Sindhi 068E is the old shape of Dul in Sindhi, where as the current

Re: Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-19 Thread Stefan Persson
Kenneth Whistler wrote: But if you pick up a pre-euro edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine, you can find the price listing on the front page, to wit: How are they abbreviating Danish crowns today, after the Euro became the currency of most other EU countries? Stefan

Re: Custom fonts

2003-03-19 Thread William Overington
Pim Blokland asked as follows. quote Now my suggestion was the browser program which displays this file should be able to look at the font information in the XML file, open the font file and retrieve the names of all characters in it, so it can show the hwesta; character (and all other

Re: Custom fonts

2003-03-19 Thread John Hudson
At 05:27 AM 3/19/2003, William Overington wrote: Now my suggestion was the browser program which displays this file should be able to look at the font information in the XML file, open the font file and retrieve the names of all characters in it, so it can show the hwesta; character (and all

Re: Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 17:15 -0800 2003-03-18, Kenneth Whistler wrote: But if you pick up a pre-euro edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine, you can find the price listing on the front page, to wit: Belgien 60 bfrs/Dänemark 14 dkr/Finnl. 10 Fmk/Frankr. 11 F/... Ken... you KEPT one? :-) -- Michael Everson * * Everson

Re: Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-19 Thread Mark Davis
He keeps them all ;-) Mark () [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM, MS 50-2/B11, 5600 Cottle Rd, SJ CA 95193 (408) 256-3148 fax: (408) 256-0799 - Original Message - From: Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:23 Subject: Re: Re. and Rs.

Re: Custom fonts

2003-03-19 Thread Pim Blokland
Doug Ewell wrote: There have been lots of attempts to define short mnemonic names or entities for Unicode. SGML names are one. The i18nrep repertoiremap, originally defined in RFC 1345 and more recently used in ISO/IEC TR 14652, is another. These schemes work well for a relatively small

FW: Web Form: Other Question - NCR 96 codepage to Unicode Codepage

2003-03-19 Thread Magda Danish \(Unicode\)
Regards, Magda Danish Administrative Director The Unicode Consortium 650-693-3921 -Original Message- Date/Time:Mon Mar 17 02:59:09 EST 2003 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report Type: Other Question, Problem, or Feedback Dear Sir, We are using a character set

Re: Custom fonts

2003-03-19 Thread Jungshik Shin
Pim Blokland wrote: Doug Ewell wrote: (..) the scenario Pim describes might work (although asking a browser to interpret the internal structure of a font file seems excessive to me). But the same mechanism is less likely to Is it really so excessive? Browsers already have to retrieve a

Re: Custom fonts

2003-03-19 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:38:42PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote: It's not only excessive but also does not work at all for text-mode browsers (including browsers with speech synthesizer for the blind) that have no need for / interest in the internal structure of a font. Your scheme is going