AW: Is the binaryness/textness of a data format a property?

2020-03-20 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht via Unicode
#1: Yes. #2: [ my suggestion ] File type category A.D. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Unicode Im Auftrag von Costello, Roger L. via Unicode Gesendet: Freitag, 20. März 2020 13:21 An: unicode@unicode.org Betreff: Is the binaryness/textness of a data format a property? Hello Data

AW: metric for block coverage

2018-02-22 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht via Unicode
"Dreiheller, Albrecht via Unicode" <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > Could someone please supply an example (web link ...) for usage of > danda / double danda in Tamil? Thanks, Albrecht Take your pick from http://www.prapatti.com/slokas/slokasbyname.html . Do they meet your requireme

AW: metric for block coverage

2018-02-20 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht via Unicode
Could someone please supply an example (web link ...) for usage of danda / double danda in Tamil? Thanks, Albrecht Von: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] Im Auftrag von Bobby de Vos via Unicode Gesendet: Montag, 19. Februar 2018 15:58 An: unicode@unicode.org Betreff: Re: metric for

Typo in FAQ-Indic ?

2017-12-08 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht via Unicode
Is this a typo? >> Q: Is the keyboard arrangement in a Unicode system different form that of >> the regular "TTF" fonts? Maybe it should read "... different FROM that ..." Regards, Albrecht

AW: Rendering variants of U+3127 Bopomofo Letter I

2017-08-25 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht via Unicode
Thanks a lot! Albrecht Von: Ken Whistler [mailto:kenwhist...@att.net] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. August 2017 18:41 An: Dreiheller, Albrecht (DF MC TTI PLM 6) Cc: unicode@unicode.org Betreff: Re: Rendering variants of U+3127 Bopomofo Letter I Albrecht, See TUS, Section 18.3, Bopomofo, p. 707

Rendering variants of U+3127 Bopomofo Letter I

2017-08-24 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht via Unicode
Hello Chinese experts, The Letter I in the Bopomofo alphabet (U+3127) has a two rendering variants, a vertical bar and a horizontal bar. Can anyone please tell me the context criteria, when should which variant be used? Is it VR China using the vertical form (like in font SimSun) and Taiwan

AW: Unicode in the Curriculum?

2016-01-11 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] Im Auftrag von Shawn Steele Date: Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2016 00:27 To: Asmus Freytag (t); unicode@unicode.org Subject: RE: Unicode in the Curriculum? Then it should be UTF-8. Learning to do something in a non-Unicode code page and then redoing

AW: Proposal for German capital letter "ß"

2015-12-09 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
Just have a look at U+1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S in the block Latin Extended Additional http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1E00.pdf Kind regards Von: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] Im Auftrag von Hans Meiser Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Dezember 2015 13:26 An: unicode@unicode.org

AW: Security concerns: OGHAM SPACE MARK

2015-07-21 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:46 David Starner [mailto:prosfil...@gmail.com] wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 2:14 AM Dreiheller, Albrecht albrecht.dreihel...@siemens.com wrote: If the author really intends to deceive potential readers he will succeed. Possibly. Code is hard. But the Ogham space

AW: Security concerns: OGHAM SPACE MARK

2015-07-21 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
Allowing arbitrary non-Ascii characters in programming languages will make it more difficult to detect malicious code. If the author really intends to deceive potential readers he will succeed. Programming languages like JS should at least implement exclusion rules from the Unicode Confusables

AW: Why doesn't Ideographic (ID) in UAX#14 have half-width katakana?

2015-04-28 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
No. They are still in use. One typical usage of half-width kanas is the display of short texts on small devices of embedded systems, like status messages of control units, for example a one-line display, 30 characters wide, monospace, with 8x10 pixels per character. Albrecht

AW: ¥ instead of \

2013-10-28 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
On 2013/10/27 4:48, Martin J. Dürst wrote: One thing that I have never checked personally, but which I heard from a former colleague who knew a lot of character encoding trivia and oddities, is that (at least at some point a few years ago) Japanese MS Word would change U+00A6 to U+005D

ISO 2955

2013-07-05 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
A topic that is different but related to the current discussion writing in an alphabet with fewer letters: letter replacements is the question about writing units with limited character sets. This is not a somehow academical question but a real existing problem in some situations. You might

RE: Suggestion for new dingbats/symbols

2013-05-30 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
Watching the discussion on symbols, icons, signs, emoticons of the last days, I'm thinking a little bit philosophically about the question: Where will we end up? Is communicating with symbols like a new easy-to-learn universal language? Is this our new Lingua Franca? Even if there will be more

RE: Word reversal from Abobe to Word

2013-02-08 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
encoding. Maybe the \ansicpg1252 is misleading. Albrecht -Original Message- From: Murray Sargent [mailto:murr...@exchange.microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 6:35 AM To: Asmus Freytag Cc: Dreiheller, Albrecht; Raymond Mercier; unicode@unicode.org Subject: RE: Word reversal from

RE: Word reversal from Abobe to Word

2013-02-07 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
Raymond, If I have a Hebrew text displayed in Adobe Acrobat I can select part of it and can paste it into Word. The trouble is that while individual characters are correctly displayed the order is reversed. Thus if I have in Acrobat קודמ (meaning 'prior') when pasted into Word I get

RE: texteditors that can process and save in different encodings

2012-10-09 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
One editor tool worth to mention in this context is MS Word, using plain text format. Might be unbelievable, but let me explain. Whenever someone asks how to convert from one encoding to another, but if he or she is not willing to download (or learn how to use) a new tool or editor, I suggest

RE: Unicode String Models

2012-07-26 Thread Dreiheller, Albrecht
David Starner wrote (Saturday, July 21, 2012 12:02 AM): The question of whether to allow non-ASCII characters in variables is open. I don't see why. Yes, a lot of organizations will use ASCII only, but not all programming is done large international organizations. For personal hacking, or