RE: CYRILIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER

2004-09-28 Thread Joe Becker \(Unicode\)
> I'm not going to stipulate that those giant hooks ARE descenders You don't have to. I am telling you that these codes were assigned to the extended pe variant that occurs in Abkhazian, and have always been so annotated. > We have seen examples where hook and descender are distinct Iff you

RE: CYRILIC CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER

2004-09-28 Thread Joe Becker \(Unicode\)
Eric, U+04A6/U+04A7 *is* the Abkhazian character, this has been stated since Unicode 1.0. The glyph form of these hooks/descenders has always shown great variability as Peter says. In Soviet-era books available when this was first encoded, Cyrillic extensions were often handwritten in, and ha

FYI FWIW: Microsoft Aims to Double Windows Language Versions

2004-03-17 Thread Joe Becker \(Unicode\)
Microsoft Aims to Double Windows Language Versions Tue Mar 16, 4:39 PM ET Reuters to My Yahoo! By Reed Stevenson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. launched on Tuesday a program to create versions of Windows and its other programs in little spoken languages such as Amharic, Catalan, Gujarati

Name Mixup Behind Air France Groundings

2004-01-02 Thread Joe Becker \(Unicode\)
Name Mixup Behind Air France Groundings By ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press Writer PARIS - Six cases of mistaken identity were behind the pre-Christmas grounding of six Air France flights between Paris and Los Angeles over terrorism fears, a police o