Re: internationalisation assumption

2004-10-01 Thread Philippe Verdy
I use my own keyboard with the standard AZERTY French layout with some extensions. I would not use the QWERTY-based Swedish layout. Can be downloaded for Windows on http://www.rodage.org/pub/French-Sahel.html (built with MSKLC, available for free under LGPL). Its layout is shown on http://www.roda

Re: Sample of german -burg abbreviature

2004-10-01 Thread Michael Everson
I assumed that the curly thing used over the letter u in German handwriting was a breve (not a combining u superimposed over a u), and so in these examples though the u is deleted, its breve is not. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

Re: Sample of german -burg abbreviature

2004-10-01 Thread Kenneth Whistler
> At 06:04 PM 9/30/2004, Michael Everson wrote: > > see no reason given for us not to unify the handwritten symbol we have > > seen with BREVE ABOVE. and Asmus responded: > Functionally, the symbol is not a breve. Visually, the sample does not look > like a standard breve, and the font resou

Re: How to pass unicode value for yahoo search.

2004-10-01 Thread Clark Cox
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:16:09 +0530, Shiv Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > For search for ansii character 'a' we write > "http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%61";; from our C++ code. How to > pass unicode value in in this search Use UTF-8, like so (Here, searching for U+3042 "HIRAGANA LETTE

Re: Stoefwritung in "Absent Voices"

2004-10-01 Thread D. Starner
> >every mark written was obviously > >phonetically distinct from any other, and size and vertical location > >were equally important. > > Eh? What sort of notion is this? "every mark" may be overstating it, but she had long tables of stuff distinguished that every modern edition I've seen me

Re: How to pass unicode value for yahoo search.

2004-10-01 Thread Marjan Parsa
"Shiv Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For search for ansii character 'a' we write > "http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%61";; from our C++ code. How to > pass unicode value in in this search Here's one way that seems to work: enter the hex value of the UTF-8 encoded bytes and specify that

Re: Stoefwritung in "Absent Voices"

2004-10-01 Thread Michael Everson
At 10:22 -0800 2004-10-01, D. Starner wrote: Has anyone read "Absent Voices", by Rochell Altman? Taking her description of stoefwritung, it seems that Unicode needs a large block tenatively set aside for Anglo-Saxon writing, as every mark written was obviously phonetically distinct from any other,

Stoefwritung in "Absent Voices"

2004-10-01 Thread D. Starner
Has anyone read "Absent Voices", by Rochell Altman? Taking her description of stoefwritung, it seems that Unicode needs a large block tenatively set aside for Anglo-Saxon writing, as every mark written was obviously phonetically distinct from any other, and size and vertical location were equally i

How to pass unicode value for yahoo search.

2004-10-01 Thread Shiv Kumar
Hi For search for ansii character 'a' we write "http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%61";; from our C++ code. How to pass unicode value in in this search Thanks & Regards Shiv Kumar

Re: [indic] CLDR 1.2 Alpha now available

2004-10-01 Thread Antoine Leca
Hi Rick, On Friday, October 1st, 2004 00:17, Rick McGowan va escriure: > > The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce that the alpha version > of the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) 1.2 is available for > public review. Can you please clarify what are the intent with regard to the entries

Re: Sample of german -burg abbreviature

2004-10-01 Thread Philipp Reichmuth
Asmus Freytag schrieb: see no reason given for us not to unify the handwritten symbol we have seen with BREVE ABOVE. > The map sample may have been hand lettered, however, there's no evidence that suggests that the usage is limited to handwriting. On the contrary, we have heard from at least o