Re: Unicode Encoding Illustration

2004-08-19 Thread Jonathan Coxhead
John Tisdale wrote: I've created an illustration to accompany my MSDN article to provide a high-level overview of Unicode encoding. I would appreciate any feedback related to accuracy and clarity. http://www.ocean.org/JT/Writings/MSDN/Images/UnicodeEncodingSmall.gif Thanks, John The box title

Re: valid characters in user names- esp. compatibility characters

2004-08-19 Thread Tex Texin
Eric, Can you elaborate on this a bit? Which is the problem you see, with respect to user names and also how will the IVS help the situation? I would think there would be some stability issues as well... If you can point me to a thread or spec that addresses what you are refering to that will be

RE: [mo/mol] and [ro/ron/rum]

2004-08-19 Thread Peter Constable
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Michael Everson > It is unlikely that Soviet Moldavian was spared the importation of > Russian vocabulary and abbreviations (kolkhoz and the like), so there > would be more than just a script difference. If such a distinction exi

RE: [mo/mol] and [ro/ron/rum]

2004-08-19 Thread Peter Constable
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Antoine Leca > What is the problem? > Do not tell me you worry about the size of the resulting package... All I am worried about is cleaning up ISO 639, including making sure that it's clear what the denotation of every item is,

RE: [mo/mol] and [ro/ron/rum]

2004-08-19 Thread Peter Constable
> From: Peter Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >After all, the question asked has nothing directly to do with the > >Unicode Consortium, UTC or the Unicode Standard: ISO 639 is wholly an > >ISO standard. > > If "the question asked has nothing directly to do with the Unicode > Consortium, UTC or

RE: [mo/mol] and [ro/ron/rum]

2004-08-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 17:22 -0700 2004-08-19, Peter Constable wrote: > >OK. For managing language resources, what ID should one use? > I would use Moldavian for text written in Soviet-era Cyrillic. Since the language did not significantly change, that would amount to make the distinction between ro and mo a script

RE: [mo/mol] and [ro/ron/rum]

2004-08-19 Thread Peter Constable
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Michael Everson > >OK. For managing language resources, what ID should one use? > > I would use Moldavian for text written in Soviet-era Cyrillic. Since the language did not significantly change, that would amount to make the di

New mail list for African script issues

2004-08-19 Thread Rick McGowan
The list "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is a new public forum for discussion of African scripts -- specifically technical issues and proposals -- including native scripts and imported scripts (e.g., Latin-based orthographies for African languages). Please note that it is not a general discussion list.

Re: MSDN Article, Second Draft

2004-08-19 Thread Philippe Verdy
May be a fourth level of abstraction is needed to complete what the MIME registry describes as "charsets": a TES (Transfer Encoding Syntax) sometimes happen at end, and some legacy specifications of CES mix it with what should have been left in a separate TES. For example, the specification of SCS

Quiz for Unicode guru

2004-08-19 Thread Frank Yung-Fong Tang
OK, just for fun Quiz for Unicode Guru "Here is the quiz for the Unicoder. It is not a hard quiz. Everyone will get it right eventually. So, use stop watch to measure how long it will take for you figure out the right answer. Note: You can find the information of Unicode and UTF-8 from www.unicod

Unicode Encoding Illustration

2004-08-19 Thread John Tisdale
I’ve created an illustration to accompany my MSDN article to provide a high-level overview of Unicode encoding. I would appreciate any feedback related to accuracy and clarity.   http://www.ocean.org/JT/Writings/MSDN/Images/UnicodeEncodingSmall.gif   Thanks, John