Length of Unicode Name

2003-06-04 Thread Kevin Brown
Does the Unicode Standard specify an upper limit to the length of a character's Unicode Name? Kevin

Re: Language Tags and Character Sets

2003-06-04 Thread Marion Gunn
Scríobh Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Language variants are not distinct because of a national border ut because a long history of separation of peoples and atachment of peoples to an origin culture in times of political conflicts or repressions. ... That is true. As a

Re: International Font to be Used

2003-06-04 Thread rseaman
From my experience, the default Windows GUI fonts on Win 2000 / XP are: MS UI Gothic (Japanese with Proportional Latin half-width characters), PMingLiu (Traditional Chinese with Proportional Latin half-width characters), and Simsun (Simplified Chinese Fixed). A problem I have found is that on

Re: Length of Unicode Name

2003-06-04 Thread Andrew C. West
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 21:51:26 +0930, Kevin Brown wrote: Does the Unicode Standard specify an upper limit to the length of a character's Unicode Name? See Annex L Character naming guidelines of ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000 (unfortunately not easily available over the net, which is a shame as you have

Re: Rare extinct latin letters

2003-06-04 Thread Peter_Constable
Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2003 07:25:46 AM: How do you consider the existing hook diacritic ? If you're talking about U+0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE, I don't think it normally attaches. In fact, it's combining class is 230 'above' and not 214 'above attached'. Attached

Address of ISO 3166 mailing list

2003-06-04 Thread Marion Gunn
I ask the patience of the Unicode and IETF-L moderators for now posting on their lists this request for contact details for the ISO 3166 mailing lists (if any). Context: Ireland advisability of reserving 'EI' tag for cited usage (baggage-handling at international airports) and the fact I am

ISO 3166-1 decoding table [was: Re: Northern Ireland]

2003-06-04 Thread Marion Gunn
Scríobh Misha Wolf: The full details of all the codes are available in a very nice table at: http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/ iso_3166-1_decoding_table.html ... Misha Thanks. As Head of successive NSAI ISO Delegations I used to keep rafts of such refs,

RE: IPA Null Consonant

2003-06-04 Thread Kent Karlsson
Jim Allan wrote: Kent Karlsson posted on the use of slashed zero for empty set: Yes... A horrible glyph for denoting the empty set, if I may say so. No offence intended. Please use the glyph available via the command \varnothing (a misleading name...) in the amssymb package; or

Re: Rare extinct latin letters

2003-06-04 Thread Philippe Verdy
Sorry, may be I was chosing the wrong diacritic (I was confused by its name, and I should have verified in the charts). Isn't U+0316 COMBINING HORN (combining class 216) what I wanted to use? Disregard my comments with HOOK and consider HORN instead. This is not a great difference as this

Re: Dot shapes varying fontwise

2003-06-04 Thread Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin
On 2003.05.06, 19:41, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin scripsit: U+0344 (oops -- the atter is not canonical; speaking of which: why U+310 isn't decomposable as U+0306 U+0301?...) It used to be, but when normalization came in, the concept of decomposable

RE: Rare extinct latin letters

2003-06-04 Thread Kent Karlsson
Sorry, may be I was chosing the wrong diacritic (I was confused by its name, and I should have verified in the charts). Isn't U+0316 COMBINING HORN (combining class 216) what I wanted to use? Let me cut my reply short: no. ... script which already has a lot of them and creates

Re: Rare extinct latin letters

2003-06-04 Thread John Hudson
At 06:39 AM 6/3/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2003 07:25:46 AM: How do you consider the existing hook diacritic ? If you're talking about U+0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE, I don't think it normally attaches. In fact, it's combining class is 230

Re: Address of ISO 3166 mailing list

2003-06-04 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: Marion Gunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] I ask the patience of the Unicode and IETF-L moderators for now posting on their lists this request for contact details for the ISO 3166 mailing lists (if any). Context: Ireland advisability of reserving 'EI' tag for cited usage (baggage-handling at

Re: ISO 3166-1 decoding table

2003-06-04 Thread Michael Everson
At 16:16 +0100 2003-06-03, Marion Gunn wrote: Thanks. As Head of successive NSAI ISO Delegations I used to keep rafts of such refs, many of which need updating now, which is why dedicated mailing lists, where such exist, are most likely to help. For the record, Marion Gunn resigned from her

Re: Address of ISO 3166 mailing list

2003-06-04 Thread Marion Gunn
Scríobh Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Shamely, the official ISO3166-1 code for United Kingdom is GB, not UK which is just a IANA assignment, both of which include Northern Ireland, and also other UK dependancies (but only in ISO3166-1, because IANA defines separate codes for

Re: Rare extinct latin letters

2003-06-04 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: Kent Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, may be I was chosing the wrong diacritic (I was confused by its name, and I should have verified in the charts). Isn't U+0316 COMBINING HORN (combining class 216) what I wanted to use? Let me cut my reply short: no. ... script which

Re: Rare extinct latin letters

2003-06-04 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: John Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 06:39 AM 6/3/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/03/2003 07:25:46 AM: How do you consider the existing hook diacritic ? If you're talking about U+0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE, I don't think it normally

Re: Rare extinct latin letters

2003-06-04 Thread Rick McGowan
Philippe Verdy wrote... Sorry, may be I was chosing the wrong diacritic (I was confused by its name, and I should have verified in the charts). Isn't U+0316 COMBINING HORN (combining class 216) what I wanted to use? If you mean Combining Horn that is U+031B. Combining horn *does* attach.

Re: ISO 3166-1 decoding table

2003-06-04 Thread John Cowan
Michael Everson scripsit: Thanks. As Head of successive NSAI ISO Delegations I used to keep rafts of such refs, many of which need updating now, which is why dedicated mailing lists, where such exist, are most likely to help. For the record, Marion Gunn resigned from her participation in

Re: ISO 3166-1 decoding table

2003-06-04 Thread Sarasvati
Oh Dear! I sense an acute rise in the ambient temperature of this list. Now, Children, please play nicely or I may drain the pool and send you all home to read Miss Manners. Your maternal, -- Sarasvati

Re: Fw: Unicode filename problems

2003-06-04 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:25:23PM +0200, Philippe Verdy wrote: When Unix/Linux reads a CDROM catalog, most often it will first display a RockRidge catalog if present (which allows mapping UFS semantics and attriutes), ignoring the Joliet catalog, and then fallback to the basic ISO9660

OFF-TOPIC: Mutt mailer and 8859-1

2003-06-04 Thread John Cowan
Does anyone know how to persuade Mutt (on stock Red Hat Linux 8.0) to treat 8859-1 as default? It insists on displaying either \xxx escapes (when LC_CTYPE is en-US.UTF-8) or question marks (in all other cases). It's not the xterm, as I have proved by running a Perl program to output #xA0 to #xFF.

Re: Stupid question: ISO 10646

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher John Fynn
Pim Blokland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all, I have got a stupid question - that is, the question was asked of me and I didn't know what to say. What is ISO 10646? Usually I can asnwer questions like this by doing an Internet search, but in this case, I get varying answers: it is a code

Encoding converion through JDBC

2003-06-04 Thread souravm
Hi All, Ive some query on how JDBC is supposed to convert encoding of characters while updating/selecting multibyte strings to/from a Database supporting Unicode characters. The specific queries are like Where from the JDBC driver is supposed to get the encoding of the target

24th Unicode Conference (IUC24) - September 3-5, 2003 - Atlanta, GA

2003-06-04 Thread Lisa Moore
Folks, It is getting to be that time...for the Fall Unicode Conference. Please join us in Atlanta, GA. See all the details below. Best regards, Lisa Twenty-fourth Internationalization and Unicode Conference

Encoding converion through JDBC

2003-06-04 Thread souravm
Hi All, Ive some query on how JDBC is supposed to convert encoding of characters while updating/selecting multibyte strings to/from a Database supporting Unicode characters. The specific queries are like 1. Where from the JDBC driver is supposed to get the encoding of the target