Re: Cyrillic character mapping tables, HP MSL to Unicode

2003-09-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
More precisely, try this file: http://h27.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bpl13206/bpl13206.pdf which contains all the symbol sets charts and cross-references with the MSL/Unicode code and their assignment in other subsets. It is refered within the downloadable reference CDROM for the

Re: Cyrillic character mapping tables, HP MSL to Unicode

2003-09-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
First start with this page: http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printers/support_doc/bpl04568.html You may want to buy this: "Refer to the HP PCL5 Technical Reference Bundle. To order, call HP's driver/software distribution at 661-257-5565. The part number is 5961-0976." You may also look at: http://www.

Re: QBCS

2003-09-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Asmus Freytag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 08:26 PM 9/1/03 -0700, Doug Ewell wrote: > >Tex Texin wrote: > > > > > In most industry usages, MBCS refers to variable width encodings, not > > > fixed width. > > > >Well, if variable-width encodings are referred to as both DBCS (see, for > >example,

Re: Last Resort Font

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Everson
At 06:48 -0700 2003-09-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Eversion wrote on 08/19/2003 02:52:55 PM: >p. 63 (Syloti Nagri): both top and bottom read "SILOTI NAGRI". > I will look into all of that, and thank you for it; but note that of those only Thaana can be expected to display, as none of t

Re: Character codes for Egyptian transliteration

2003-09-02 Thread Peter_Constable
Peter Kirk on 08/21/2003 09:33:27 AM: > As for the requirement for distinct upper and lower case variants of > ayin, I understood that there was a similar requirement in some minor > Cyrillic languages, at least for apostrophe and double apostrophe. > Earlier this year Peter Constable was gathe

Re: Last Resort Font

2003-09-02 Thread Peter_Constable
Michael Eversion wrote on 08/19/2003 02:52:55 PM: > >p. 63 (Syloti Nagri): both top and bottom read "SILOTI NAGRI". > I will look into all of that, and thank you for it; but note that of > those only Thaana can be expected to display, as none of the others > have been encoded. So none of those

[OT]Re: Breaking free from UNICODE

2003-09-02 Thread Peter_Constable
Michael Eversion wrote on 08/19/2003 03:14:47 PM: > Golly, I was able to distinguish Latin and Georgian and Cyrillic on a > Mac SE 30 in 1985. Or was it 1987.(Long before Worldscript I admit.) > And years before that there was the Osborne with its dot-matrix > miracles. IIRC, the Mac SE did no

Re: QBCS

2003-09-02 Thread Doug Ewell
Tex Texin wrote: > In most industry usages, MBCS refers to variable width encodings, not > fixed width. Well, if variable-width encodings are referred to as both DBCS (see, for example, http://czyborra.com/charsets/cjk.html#dbcs) and MBCS, then what term is used to describe a fixed-width encodin

Re: QBCS

2003-09-02 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 08:26 PM 9/1/03 -0700, Doug Ewell wrote: Tex Texin wrote: > In most industry usages, MBCS refers to variable width encodings, not > fixed width. Well, if variable-width encodings are referred to as both DBCS (see, for example, http://czyborra.com/charsets/cjk.html#dbcs) and MBCS, then what ter