Re: About the European MES-2 subset (was: PUA Audio Description,Subtitle, Signing)

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Everson
At 00:57 +0200 2003-07-18, Philippe Verdy wrote: Why is row 03 so resticted? Shouldn't it include those accents and diacritics that are used by other characters once canonically decomposed? Or does it imply that MES-2 is only supposed to use strings if NFC form? Also, is this list under full c

Putting Unicode to Work

2003-07-17 Thread djinn
Although some list members may already be aware of these pages, because there are still very few web sites today that present text using a variety of Unicode ranges for purposes other than 'display testing', I thought the entire list should know about the "Unicode" pages on the Hot Peach Pages/

Re: About the European MES-2 subset (was: PUA Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing)

2003-07-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Friday, July 18, 2003 2:18 AM, Kenneth Whistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MES-2 was not designed by the UTC, nor did it take any of > these considerations into account. It is not really an > appropriate construct for the Unicode Standard. A more > meaningful way to think of it is: if you wan

Re: About the European MES-2 subset (was: PUA Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing)

2003-07-17 Thread Kenneth Whistler
> > 282 MES-2 is specified by the following ranges of code positions as > > indicated for each row... Philippe Verdy asked: > As most of these characters are canonically decomposable, shouldn't this > list include also the decomposed characters? > > Why is row 03 so resticted? Shouldn't it incl

Re: About the European MES-2 subset (was: PUA Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing)

2003-07-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:23 PM, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 17:01 +0100 2003-07-17, William Overington wrote: > > Now, I have never heard of the MES-2 whatever that is. However, I > > do not have deep knowledge of the various standards which exist. > > Could you possibly

RE: missing .GIF's for ideographs on unicode.org?

2003-07-17 Thread Ostermueller, Erik
thank you thank you. > "Ostermueller, Erik" wrote: > > > At unicode.org, when I click this link, > > > http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=2 > > I'm expecting to see a little square GIF that > displays U+2. > > Instea

Re: missing .GIF's for ideographs on unicode.org?

2003-07-17 Thread Rick McGowan
"Ostermueller, Erik" wrote: > At unicode.org, when I click this link, > http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=2 > I'm expecting to see a little square GIF that displays U+2. > Instead, I see "N/A". This has now been fixed. Thank you for pointing out the error. The code

Re: Article on Unicode in Globalization Insider

2003-07-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:01:30PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >http://www.lisa.org/archive_domain/newsletters/2003/ > > >3.2/lommel_unicode.html > > > > This link seems to be broken. I get a message *Our apologies* > > *The page you requested is not available.* > > I guess you just have t

Re: [Private Use Area] Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Everson
At 17:01 +0100 2003-07-17, William Overington wrote: Michael Everson raises some interesting points. William. If CENELEC wishes to standardize a set of icons, they will do so. If they have a need to interchange data using those icons, they will (if they are wise) come to us an ask to encode them.

Re: [Private Use Area] Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing

2003-07-17 Thread Kenneth Whistler
William spilled another ocean of digital ink. Found bobbing in that ocean was the comment: > >Roozbeh and I assigned two unencoded characters for Afghanistan to > >the PUA, and we encourage implementors to use them until such time as > >the characters are encoded. > > Yes. ... Now that at least

Re: missing .GIF's for ideographs on unicode.org?

2003-07-17 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 12:00 AM, Richard Cook wrote: I'm guessing this just hasn't been implemented yet. You are guessing correctly. Once some of the dust settles from my day job, I expect I can get to this. == John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage

Re: [Private Use Area] Audio Description, Subtitle, Signing

2003-07-17 Thread William Overington
Michael Everson raises some interesting points. >William. > >If CENELEC wishes to standardize a set of icons, they will do so. If >they have a need to interchange data using those icons, they will (if >they are wise) come to us an ask to encode them. If they want to use >the Private Use Area befor

RE: missing .GIF's for ideographs on unicode.org?

2003-07-17 Thread Ostermueller, Erik
Richard wrote: > Erik, I think you are correct. The link should be like so: > > http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/refglyph?24-2 > > I'm guessing this just hasn't been implemented yet. I swear I've seen the glyph on this page before. When I looked at it in the PDF

Char Set Detector

2003-07-17 Thread Yogesh Kumar Ahuja
Hi, Can any body give me the path/url to get a Char set Detector. which can detect the char set's encoding scheme ..atleast for shift_jis and big5. I downloaded from mozilla and build it. It's working fine for UTF8 but failing for shift_jis and big5 in some cases. I'm working on HP unix. If any bo