Re: About cultural/languages communities flags

2015-02-12 Thread Christopher Vance
communities *with* an approved TLD (Top Level >>> Domain). >>> >>> I know flags are an issue, and I know flags represents territories, not >>> languages, but I think some support should be done for these active >>> communities. As I pointed, some country flag collections expand with a fews >>> non-independent country. See [1], [2] and [3] (search for Scottish or >>> Welsh flag). You can check this [4] petition requesting Catalan flag on >>> WhatsApp. >>> >>> So, there is a demand and they are used in real world. What's the way >>> for encoding them in Unicode standard? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Joan Montané >>> >>> [1] http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/ >>> [2] https://www.gosquared.com/resources/flag-icons/ >>> [3] http://www.sherv.net/flag-emoticons.html >>> [4] >>> https://www.change.org/p/whatsapp-inc-incloure-la-senyera-de-catalunya-a-whatsapp >>> >>> ___ >>> Unicode mailing list >>> Unicode@unicode.org >>> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >>> >>> >> > > ___ > Unicode mailing list > Unicode@unicode.org > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > > -- Christopher Vance ___ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode

Re: Question about “Uppercase” in DerivedCoreProperties.txt

2014-11-08 Thread Christopher Vance
the limitations caused by this file and the ISO C standard. > > -- > Mike FABIAN > ☏ Office: +49-69-365051027, internal 8875027 > 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。 > ___ > Unicode mailing list > Unicode@unicode.org > http://unicode.org/mailman/list

Fwd: Terminology question re ASCII

2013-10-28 Thread Christopher Vance
Sorry, should have cc:d the list. Assume original mail was from a list member. -- Forwarded message -- From: Christopher Vance Date: 29 October 2013 16:58 Subject: Re: Terminology question re ASCII To: Mark Davis ☕ Of course, once you have 8-bit characters in the upper range

Re: ASCII control codes in sequences of multibyte character sets

2013-09-02 Thread Christopher Vance
gt; On 9/2/2013 6:47 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: > >> In any case, there is nothing about "multi-octet" versus "multi-byte" >> that makes one fixed-length and the other variable-length. >> >> Yep. > > A./ > > -- Christopher Vance

Re: TR35

2004-05-13 Thread Christopher Vance
before month before year. This is true whether the month is expressed as a number or as a name (possibly abbreviated). most languages, and multiple languages for most ways to write dates. I think Peter Constable is on the right track here. -- Christopher Vance

Re: New contribution

2004-05-09 Thread Christopher Vance
xpect to read most of it without spending quite a bit of time trying to recognize additional letters, and then from them additional words. -- Christopher Vance

Re: lowercased Unicode language tags ? (was:ISO 15924)

2004-05-03 Thread Christopher Vance
7;s no problem. Script names are mixed case, and ISO 3166-2 subcountry codes are all upper. -- Christopher Vance

Re: [OT] Even viruses are now i18n!

2004-04-22 Thread Christopher Vance
coral atolls, population about 500 each. I visited in 1983. The territory was administered from Apia, Samoa. The language is most similar to Samoan. There are more Tokelauans living in Wellington NZ, than on Tokelau proper. -- Christopher Vance

Re: Web Form: Other Question: Etruscan,Sanscrit & Linear B on ibo ok G4

2004-01-28 Thread Christopher Vance
". (Italian "gamma" means "repertoire", "range", "scale", "set".) As in English "gammut". -- Christopher Vance

Re: apostrophe vs. modifier letter apostrophe

2002-03-26 Thread Christopher Vance
y stilted if that is always required. Font differences can sometimes be adequate to avoid the separator, but not always. You may find some people using a hyphen instead of the apostrophe, but some sort of separator is almost required for legibility. In this context, plural "s" is only one of the affixes of interest. -- Christopher Vance

Re: Devanagari

2002-01-20 Thread Christopher Vance
. : Therefore transmission of a Devanagari web page over a network would take : thrice as long as that of an English web page using the same images and : presenting the same information. And the whole UTF-8 Devanagari page is probably still smaller than even one of the .gif files. -- Christopher Vance

Re: [ very OT ] why abjad ..? ; list--Arabic script languages

2001-01-15 Thread Christopher Vance
Javanese/Jawi. : > Kurmanji, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgian, Malagasy, Maltese, Minangkabau, : > Ottoman Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Tajik, : > Tatar, Turkmen, Uzbek, Volga Bulgarian, Western Cham, Yoruba. -- Christopher Vance

Re: [OT] country codes

2000-11-28 Thread Christopher Vance
ed, and frequently boundaries between the same pair of subdivisions just move. -- Christopher Vance