RE: MSDN Article, Second Draft

2004-08-20 Thread Jony Rosenne
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jungshik Shin > Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:34 AM > To: John Tisdale; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MSDN Article, Second Draft > > ... >numerous national and vendor character sets tha

Re: MSDN Article, Second Draft

2004-08-20 Thread John Cowan
Jungshik Shin scripsit: > As is often the case, Unicode experts are not necessarily experts on > 'legacy' character sets and encodings. The 'official' name of 'ASCII' is > ANSI X3.4-1968 or ISO 646 (US). While dispelling myths about Unicode, > I'm afraid you're spreading misinformation about wh

Re: MSDN Article, Second Draft

2004-08-20 Thread Jungshik Shin
John Tisdale wrote: Unicode Fundamentals Early character sets were very limited in scope. ASCII required only 7 bits to represent its repertoire of 128 characters. ANSI pushed this scope 8 bits which represented 256 characters while providing backward compatibility with ASCII. Countless other char

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

2004-08-20 Thread Peter Kirk
On 20/08/2004 01:34, Michael Everson wrote: ... > I would use Moldavian for text written in Soviet-era Cyrillic. ... 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 differen

Re: Unicode Encoding Illustration

2004-08-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Jonathan Coxhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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/Writi

Re: [hebrew] Re: Disunification costs

2004-08-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 09:56 +0200 2004-08-20, Philippe Verdy wrote: > >From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Our contribution was intended to weigh the impact on existing text. > > > >May be a small correction here: > >... the impact on existing text already

Re: [hebrew] Re: A new way to break the Holam deadlock?

2004-08-20 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 07:20 +0300 2004-08-20, Jony Rosenne wrote: > > >I did not mention them. I did mention that the code point was reserved in > >the Israeli submission to Unicode and ISO. > > No one is permitted to "reserve" code positions, as I have tried to > explain

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