From: Edward H. Trager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also, I would not bother testing Windows OSes prior to Windows 2000/XP.
Why not? Windows 98 and ME are still in use today, and can work on more limited
PCs, unlike 2000/XP which requires a newer PC. If you're targetting a population
with less
From: Doug Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recently I found an unexpected Unicode moment buried in the
documentation for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. This was written by
Bobby Schmidt in 2000.
The name C sharp is really spelled as shown in my column's banner
graphic: The capital letter C
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:56:52 +0100, Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
From: Doug Ewell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recently I found an unexpected Unicode moment buried in the
documentation for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. This was written by
Bobby Schmidt in 2000.
The name C sharp is
Hi John,
John Snow va escriure:
I am speaking to a client regarding there website being translated in
to a number of languages including Bengali, Urdu and Punjabi which I
am told is not very well supported by Unicode.
This is not true. These languages are supported by Unicode, since the
Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure:
From: Edward H. Trager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also, I would not bother testing Windows OSes prior to Windows
2000/XP.
Why not?
Since it does not even work on these, there is no point testing it on
development-dead platforms either.
Antoine
Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure:
The musical sharp sign, of course, is U+266F, making the correct
spelling C.
From TUS: These symbols are typically used for text decorations, but they
may also be treated as normal text characters in applications such as
typesetting chess books,
The file extension is '.cs', since including punctuation marks would
cause problems on many systems.
The correct spelling is with a sharp sign, not a number sign, as
documented by Microsoft themselves in various places:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/productinfo/faq/default.aspx
quote:
To add to the confusion, the ECMA-334 standard writes in its reference PDF (page
27):
This clause is informative.
(...)
The name C# is pronounced C Sharp.
The name C# is written as the LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C (U+0043) followed
by the NUMBER SIGN # (U+000D).
End of
So the name (or trademark?) is meant to be pronounced sharp (in
English),
visualized logographically with a sharp symbol, and entered as a hash (#)
symbol
which don't work within file extensions in so many tools.
I don't think you understand... the '.c#' file extension to which you
refer
Quoting Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The file extension is '.cs', since including punctuation marks would
cause problems on many systems.
The correct spelling is with a sharp sign, not a number sign, as
documented by Microsoft themselves in various places:
This clause is informative.
(...)
The name C# is pronounced C Sharp.
The name C# is written as the LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C (U+0043) followed
by the NUMBER SIGN # (U+000D).
End of informative text.
Gotta love a language with a carriage return in it's name :)
--
Jon
Be careful here, for Unicode support in the browser (at least
Netscape/Mozilla) there are some code fork between 2000/XP and Win98/ME.
Philippe Verdy wrote on 3/23/2004, 5:39 AM:
From: Edward H. Trager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also, I would not bother testing Windows OSes prior to Windows
Scripts used by Urdu, Panjabi and Bengali are all supported in Unicode.
Urdu can be written using naskh-style Arabic (supported on WinXP,
Win2K...), but users strongly prefer nastaliq. The latter is supported
by the Uniscribe shaping engine; MS has not yet shipped any nastaliq
fonts, but some are
From: Jon Hanna [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This clause is informative.
(...)
The name C# is pronounced C Sharp.
The name C# is written as the LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C (U+0043) followed
by the NUMBER SIGN # (U+000D).
End of informative text.
Gotta love a language with a
From: Peter Constable [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scripts used by Urdu, Panjabi and Bengali are all supported in Unicode.
Urdu can be written using naskh-style Arabic (supported on WinXP,
Win2K...), but users strongly prefer nastaliq. The latter is supported
by the Uniscribe shaping engine; MS has not
A new Croatian translation of What is Unicode?
has been posted. Check it out at http://www.unicode.org/standard/translations/croatian.html
and many thanks to the translator: Stjepan Brbot.
---
Magda Danish
Administrative
Director
The
Unicode Consortium
Is somebody already using a PUA assignment for vertical text direction
controls?
from http://www.unicode.org/faq/bidi.html#1
[...] the choice of vertical layout is usually treated as a
formatting style; therefore, the Unicode Standard does not define
default rendering behavior for vertical
At 02:55 PM 3/23/2004, Thomas Kuehne wrote:
Is somebody already using a PUA assignment for vertical text direction
controls?
from http://www.unicode.org/faq/bidi.html#1
[...] the choice of vertical layout is usually treated as a
formatting style; therefore, the Unicode Standard does not define
Am Mittwoch 24 März 2004 00:09 schrieb Asmus Freytag:
Is somebody already using a PUA assignment for vertical text
direction controls?
I think the idea was that these don't belong in plain text.
Markup languages have had vertical layout controls forever.
The problem arose at very resource
Title: RE: vertical direction control
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Thomas Kuehne
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 6:09 PM
For CJK, old European in-scripts and especially Egyptian hieroglyphs
it would be good to have a common control set - otherwise
At 06:09 PM 3/23/2004, Thomas Kuehne wrote:
Am Mittwoch 24 März 2004 00:09 schrieb Asmus Freytag:
Is somebody already using a PUA assignment for vertical text
direction controls?
I think the idea was that these don't belong in plain text.
Markup languages have had vertical layout controls
I can't imagine a situation where this would matter for plain text.
I suppose one could use the ECMA-48 / ISO 6429
SPD (Select Presentation Direction) control sequence, but that
is hardly plain text, altho it isn't quite markup either.
Stuart Brown sbrown at extenza dot com wrote:
Pronouncing C? as D flat is musically correct, at least in the
equal-tempered environment,
I'm astonished at a Unicoder coming to this conclusion! C sharp is C
sharp, and D flat is D flat. To conflate the two on the grounds of
their auditory
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