Sarasvati

2001-01-25 Thread John Cowan
How is Her Divine Effulgency holding up today under the impact of thirty million visitors? -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan wi

Re: Unicode 3.1: IDS and ZW(N)J

2001-01-25 Thread John Cowan
le could be written as , which cannot come out as a ligature. Unfortunately, ZWNJ is not allowed in an IDS, so this will produce the ill-formed IDS Allowing ZWNJ/ZWJ in IDSes will allow the right rendering while preserving well-formedness. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL

Re: Unicode 3.1: IDS and ZW(N)J

2001-01-24 Thread John Cowan
Granted. But the word "ligature" is not used there, whereas it is explicitly so used on page 271. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: Chemistry on chinesse. (CJK)

2001-01-24 Thread John Cowan
Kenneth Whistler wrote: > http://www.unicode.org/charts/draftunicode31/ (for CJK Extension B, etc.) No Han charts there yet for Extension B or CNS compatibility. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less

Unicode 3.1: IDS and ZW(N)J

2001-01-24 Thread John Cowan
Joiner IDS IDS TrinaryDescriptionOperator IDS IDS Joiner IDS TrinaryDescriptionOperator IDS Joiner IDS Joiner IDS would do the trick. This means that sequences like which were not IDSes before are now IDSes under the new definition. -- There is / one art || John

Re: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

2001-01-24 Thread John Cowan
ercase by nature, an ordinary capital iota is used instead.) > vrachy, and macron Used in teaching contexts to represent the marks for short and long vowels respectively (that is, on alpha, iota, and ypsilon). -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no

Re: FW: replay address (was: PDUTR #27: Unicode 3.1)

2001-01-22 Thread John Cowan
;>> the settings for this list so that the list address is by default the reply >>> address? Thank you very much. >>> >> >> I fully agree, Please read "Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful" (http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html) before you

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2001-01-04 Thread John Cowan
, i.e. you can not tell from > the Finnish accent that their mother tongue is Swedish. However, the > situation is different on the West coast and in the archipelago. Therefore the official use of Swedish in Finland is essentially a byproduct of decolonialization, correct? -- There is / one

Re: [OT] Close to latin

2001-01-03 Thread John Cowan
h, but on the other hand is much closer to the other written Romance languages. If French were written as spoken, hardly a word would be recognizable to speakers of Spanish, Italian, ... or even English. Since much of interlinguistic communication is in writing, this is significant. -- J

Re: OT: Linguae franca

2001-01-03 Thread John Cowan
asier to throw a ball than to catch it. While speaking, you can pause as often as you like (within reason) to formulate your thoughts, whereas when trying to understand, you can't afford to get stuck somewhere, or your interlocutor will go way past you. -- John Cowan

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-30 Thread John Cowan
> professionals or naturally gifted with languages. In Europe and North America, yes. In India and Africa, it's downright ordinary. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-20 Thread John Cowan
such a threat as you describe, and feel freer to learn other languages as a matter of individual utility. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-20 Thread John Cowan
e with political imperialism, state terror, and the physical extermination of whole peoples is going much too far. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil

Update 3.1

2000-12-15 Thread John Cowan
The CaseFolding-3.d3.beta.txt file has not been updated for Plane 1 characters. In particular, there is no information for cased characters in the Desertet and Math Alpha Symbols blocks. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] One art/there is/no less/no more/All

Re: UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format files

2000-12-08 Thread John Cowan
; are no tags. We see the same symptoms, then. If you download the files and view them in Notepad (NT or 2000) you will see the Right Thing. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do /

Re: UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format files

2000-12-08 Thread John Cowan
James Kass wrote: > > John Cowan wrote of problems with the *.UNI files... > > This browser loads them just fine, but perhaps this > is because I "associated" *.UNI files with the browser > in the Windows file type configurations? Apparently your browser (IE? w

Re: UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format files

2000-12-08 Thread John Cowan
ncy is hereby implored to add the following directive to the Apache server's conf/httpd.conf file: AddType text/plain UNI -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com t

Re: Font help

2000-12-07 Thread John Cowan
RS/APPLE. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or

2000-12-07 Thread John Cowan
u mean "language of the (fixed parts of the) page", which is confusing; David was interpreting it as "locale set in the browser". -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reuter

Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or

2000-12-07 Thread John Cowan
n the upper right corner and sweeping to the lower left corner), and copy and paste it to a word processor, the logical-order rules ensure that the text comes out with the key column on the left again. > (I am assuming you are not a native speaker of a RTL language.) I am not. -- There is /

Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or

2000-12-07 Thread John Cowan
n a RTL localized spreadsheet program; perhaps the A1 column appears rightmost, in which case pasting the logical-order would make the text end up with country in A (rightmost), firstname in B, lastname in C. Which is what you want. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL

Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or

2000-12-07 Thread John Cowan
can cope with an "il-he" browser setting and render the fixed elements into Hebrew, then the base direction should be RTL. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right

2000-12-07 Thread John Cowan
taxonomy), and the fact that for much of the higher > terminology, Urdu tends to borrow from Arabic and Hindi tends to borrow > from Sanskrit. You may mean that "as a written language" Urdu predates > Hindi. It's also the case that the *name* Urdu ("camp language"

Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or

2000-12-06 Thread John Cowan
range matters just yet. This is a rather modest test, and probably more reliable than using the browser setting. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things

Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or

2000-12-06 Thread John Cowan
k of a book written in English? -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or

2000-12-06 Thread John Cowan
- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or

2000-12-06 Thread John Cowan
. Mongolian (not a language of the former USSR) has Cyrillic and Mongolian-script representations; they are not automatically interconvertible. Cyrillic is L2R, of course; Mongolian is T2B. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less

Re: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-11-30 Thread John Cowan
ts (alleged) English, and not > to Scots Gaelic. Sae wes I. But Scotland's a twa-leidit fowkrick (Scots an Scots Gaelic), o three gif we coont "mim-mou'd Sudron". -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter

Re: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-11-30 Thread John Cowan
rate language! If you understand anything at all it's by a happy accident. (There is of course Scots-flavored English as well, which is another matter.) -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reu

Re: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-11-30 Thread John Cowan
nd vice versa, IIRC. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: string vs. char [was Re: Java and Unicode]

2000-11-20 Thread John Cowan
David Starner wrote: > I chose Astral Planes for perceived grace > and beauty. Thank you! -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://

Re: Persian decimal separator

2000-11-16 Thread John Cowan
t is that some day there will be a licensed Persian Windows, and it is good that Microsoft get the Farsi conventions right *before* that day comes. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth

Re: OT: Devanagari question

2000-11-14 Thread John Cowan
TOH minority languages have come to be written with novel scripts like Pollard and UCAS. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.cci

Re: Q.'s about hanja

2000-11-07 Thread John Cowan
Jungshik Shin wrote: > This has NOTHING to do with polysyllabic reading. These Hanjas have > just *multiple* alternative MONOSYLLABIC readings. Okay, I understand now. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less

Re: Q.'s about hanja

2000-11-07 Thread John Cowan
05) for U+4E32. > U+4EBB kKorean SA-LAM-IN-PYEN I missed this one. Your argument sounds plausible. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || h

Re: Q.'s about hanja

2000-11-07 Thread John Cowan
be written with Chinese characters, no other writing being available. The question is: Are the words that can be written in modern practice using Hanja exclusively those borrowed from Chinese? -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less

Re: Q.'s about hanja

2000-11-07 Thread John Cowan
re is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: Stacking Thai marks, stacking Hebrew marks?

2000-11-06 Thread John Cowan
specific syllable or the word involved, they just appear >above a base character, what does Unicode do? You place such combining characters after the base character they are going to appear over, under, or inside of, and never mind the apparent semantics. -- There is / one art ||

Re: Japanese scripts?

2000-10-30 Thread John Cowan
"Ayers, Mike" wrote: > "Effectively"? No. Katakana-only writing is just wrong, and > hiragana sans kanji (with or without katakana) is considered children's > writing. Is the Tale of Genji printed in kanji nowadays? -- There is / one art

Re: FW: WIDOWS POLICES ??

2000-10-27 Thread John Cowan
iber handgun traditionally carried by the police", quite twisting the sense of the sentence! -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: Myanmar Script (1000-109F)

2000-10-20 Thread John Cowan
gt; My testbed is on Linux, most professionals' preferred OS. > > [...] Please, let's not use this list as a forum > for OS chauvinism. I took this statement to refer to "most Myanmar professionals". Is there in fact a version of Windows localized for Myanmar?

Re: BCP 19, RFC 2978 on IANA Charset Registration Procedures

2000-10-20 Thread John Cowan
Michael Everson wrote: > IETF does not allow corrigenda? Of course; however, they must be published as independent RFCs which are labelled as updating the original. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less

Re: Mail list archive

2000-10-13 Thread John Cowan
Mark Davis wrote: > It is described on http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/distlist.html BTW, O Divine and Radiant Effulgency, there is an error on that page. Rules are breached. It is babies who are breeched. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: "Giga Character Set": Anything besides noise

2000-10-11 Thread John Cowan
ngon is one of the "12 languages that cover over 75% of > the world's population". I mean, how could those Unicode people overlook > support for Klingon? Sheesh... In fact, of course, every extant Klingon text can be written with Unicode, and indeed with ISO 646:1983. -- T

RE: Clarification of Arabic joining classes

2000-10-10 Thread John Cowan
;? Hmm, yes, that sounds plausible. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter

Re: Correct definition for an "isLatin1()" function

2000-10-05 Thread John Cowan
27;t originate from incorrect transcoding from CP 1252.) The Latin Extended blocks are definitely out. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: Locale ID's again: simplified vs. traditional

2000-10-04 Thread John Cowan
ething that must be represented properly. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: Cyrillic -

2000-09-29 Thread John Cowan
not of IOTIFIED A, I am told. So given that we have already encoded YA and LITTLE YUS (unavoidable, really, considering how different they look), IOTIFIED A has no representation. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter

Re: Cyrillic -

2000-09-29 Thread John Cowan
nated the latter and adopted a modified form of LITTLE YUS, now CYRILLIC LETTER YA. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: surrogate terminology

2000-09-29 Thread John Cowan
he term "zigamorph" for the non-character U+, based on its use within IBM as a term for EBCDIC FF, also a non-character. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do

Re: Can anyone help me!!!

2000-09-26 Thread John Cowan
while. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: U+007E is informatively Sm?

2000-09-25 Thread John Cowan
Michael Everson wrote: > A proposal to add the SWUNG DASH to the UCS is being prepared along with > other characters used in the Finno-Ugric Phonetic Alphabet. How is this different from U+301C? -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no mo

Re: [very OT] "Slavic"

2000-09-25 Thread John Cowan
larly cherish, meaning "Greek written in Latin letters in order to overcome the limitations of 7-bit email." -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things

Re: New Locale Proposal

2000-09-18 Thread John Cowan
have a 639-1 tag. 3) Therefore, the only future 639-1 tags are those assigned to new (i.e. not in 639-2) languages, simultaneously with a 639-2 tag. E.g. Lojban, a currently untagged language, might get the tags "loj" and "lj". (When Hell freezes over.) -- There is / one a

Re: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-17 Thread John Cowan
erwise go to zh-guoyu or zh-yue or whatever. > But John's > proposal might be a solution for those people who really need a > standard language tag for Mukumina. Exactly so. And BTW "my proposal" is also Harald Alvestrand's proposal. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter

RE: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-17 Thread John Cowan
languages. People who speak Boont also speak English. There are many languages listed in the Ethnologue that aren't native languages. As for the short ling, the kimmies at SIL were plenty bahl to omeert it. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter

Re: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-16 Thread John Cowan
> From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It seems clear from the detailed information that in all 14 cases, > > there is only one language, known by different names in different > > countries. Expecting the Ethnologue to solve this problem by fiat, >

Re: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-16 Thread John Cowan
he respect for > accuracy that it perhaps deserves. It seems clear from the detailed information that in all 14 cases, there is only one language, known by different names in different countries. Expecting the Ethnologue to solve this problem by fiat, or even to openly prefer one name over another when nationalist sympathies decree otherwise, is IMHO not reasonable. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter

RE: Tagging orthographic systems

2000-09-15 Thread John Cowan
and words correctly with their acute accents, English orthography is, er, > just as chaotic as it is in Britain. Nevertheless, "en-ie" is a valid RFC 1766 tag, and may be useful in labeling spoken word recordings. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] One a

Re: Ligatured characters

2000-09-14 Thread John Cowan
not be feasable for German, ZWJ (which is now the ligator) is not required for every instance of ligation, but rather for ligationes contra naturam only, as when reproducing a manuscript from the days when ligations were all over the place. -- There is / one art || John Cowan

Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-14 Thread John Cowan
ciana has a 3166-2 regional code, we could do something there, perhaps.) -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.cci

Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-13 Thread John Cowan
", which in GB would be a place you go to get more tired -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~c

Re: Ligatured characters

2000-09-12 Thread John Cowan
igated forms of dotless-i>.) In fact high-quality Turkish text does not include the fi ligature at all, AFAIK. This would be a property of a proper Turkish font. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www

Re: surrogate terminology (was Re: Surrogate support in *ML?

2000-09-12 Thread John Cowan
ode values used to > encode an "astral" character; note that a surrogate pair is *different* > from the character they encode: surrogates come from the sphere of code > values, not the sphere of characters/codepoints Matches D27 and the Glossary. Summary: the Unicode Standard'

Re: (iso639.184) Plane 14 redux (was: Same language, two locales)

2000-09-12 Thread John Cowan
es or distinct > dialects. RFC 1766 already registers several languages, notably the zh-* family, that do not have distinct written forms. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.c

Re: TATAP => TATAR

2000-09-12 Thread John Cowan
u use the Cyrillic vowels in very un-Cyrillic ways). And Cyrillic is good at shibilants, which Latin is not. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things

Re: Surrogate support in *ML?

2000-09-08 Thread John Cowan
ot;Those planes are *real*!"), so I dropped it. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Re: Unicode on a non-Unicode web page

2000-09-08 Thread John Cowan
/www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html , which is hereby incorporated by reference, as the lawyers say. In the interests of fair play, I will also point to Simon Hill's "Reply-To Munging Considered Useful" at http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml . -- There is /

Re: Ligatured characters

2000-09-07 Thread John Cowan
you want them to mean. > Also, if using the private use area are there any working > conventions that have arisen [...] The only convention is that the low end is generally assigned by users, the high end by organizations. -- There is / one art || Joh

Re: Unicode on a non-Unicode web page

2000-09-07 Thread John Cowan
t does display the DJE and GAMMA > if I use decimal values) but of course now the Czech words are not > displayed properly. You can switch to decimal Unicode character references (in the range Ā to ǿ) for the Latin-2-specific characters. -- There is / one art

Re: Surrogate support in *ML?

2000-09-07 Thread John Cowan
ter references of the form "𝀀". -- There is / one art || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> no more / no less|| http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

RE: Same language, two locales

2000-09-05 Thread John Cowan
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Michael Everson wrote: > Oxford notes that it is in imitation of French orthography. Meaning the use of "-ise" everywhere, I suppose; a straight parse of what you said would be "Oxford notes that Oxford is in imitation..." which seems to contradict wh

RE: Same language, two locales

2000-09-03 Thread John Cowan
nians who preserve the traditional spelling of English words derived from Greek words in "-izein". The change "-ize" > "-ise" (doubtless by analogy with non-Greek words in "-ise" such as "advertise") is a 19th-century innovation. -- John Cowan

Re: Plane 14 redux (was: Same language, two locales)

2000-09-03 Thread John Cowan
;RFC 1766 or its successor." Although you cannot tell by inspecting RFC 1766 whether it has been updated/superseded or not, you can tell by looking at the RFC index, which summarizes such information. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[O]n the whole

Re: more questions on Lakota

2000-09-02 Thread John Cowan
erwise in the orthography? If not, you could use U+014B and an appropriate font. If so, consider applying for a new Modifier Letter, and use a Private Zone codepoint in the meantime. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[O]n the whole I'd rather make love than shoot guns [...]" --Eric Raymond

Re: Plane 14 redux (was: Same language, two locales)

2000-09-02 Thread John Cowan
r a general, extensible language and language-variety tagging standard, and there is nothing superior in flexibility and general acceptance to RFC 1766. Its only real competitor is the SIL set, and an effort is underway to incorporate it en masse (or nearly so) into the RFC 1766 registry. -- John Cow

Re: Unicode 3.0.1 Released

2000-09-02 Thread John Cowan
ore. In the CaseFolding file, the comments say the possible value of the "status" field is N or S, but the actual values are L and E. The comments should be fixed (quick hack) and maybe some explanation given of why "L" and "E" are sensible values. -- John Cowa

RE: Same language, two locales (RE: Locale string for Norwegian -

2000-08-31 Thread John Cowan
Norwegian who gets a secondary school education (most of them) knows both written standards; the only question is, which one is taught first (as part of learning to read/write). -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[O]n the whole I'd rather m

Re: (OT) ISO 3166-2 online?

2000-08-24 Thread John Cowan
t; > http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/ > http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/index.html That is the 3166-1 list, which is available all over the Internet. 3166-2 lists the regions of different countries, is incredibly long,

Re: Unicode 3.0.1 update beta data file refresh

2000-08-18 Thread John Cowan
Kenneth Whistler wrote: > http://www.unicode.org/Public/3.0-Update1/ This server seems to be down too. You may want to consider extending the beta period. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau,

Re: smart fonts that just work (was Re: Taiwanese: unicode of o with dot

2000-08-18 Thread John Cowan
t; Similarly for Turkish (and note that the > plain text file won't have ligatures). Well, it can if it exploits the ligature compatibility characters. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershe

Tigrinya, Tonga, Turkish, Yoruba (was: RFC 1766)

2000-08-11 Thread John Cowan
text which may confidently be rejected as corrupt, since it purports to affirm that Welsh is a species of Gaelic! In the case of Tonga, there may perhaps be a legitimate doubt whether to equate the "to" (Tonga) code with "tog" (Tonga (Nyasa)) or with "ton" (Tonga (Tonga I

Re: RFC 1766 (was: Summary: xml:lang validity and RFC 1766 refs

2000-08-10 Thread John Cowan
ntonese) and i-mingo (Mingo). -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.-- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)

Re: Summary: xml:lang validity and RFC 1766 refs to outdated codes

2000-08-08 Thread John Cowan
ecification. Just so. > It doesn't > necessarily follow that xml:lang values can avoid conforming to RFC 1766. They cannot avoid it. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.r

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread John Cowan
f any changes are needed, it is to the Unicode default collating sequence (which I have not checked) and not to the codes for the characters themselves. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguan

Re: is there any way to change already defined character codes?

2000-08-08 Thread John Cowan
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Jianping Yang wrote: > Not really for Unicode in which we have relocated some codepoints for Hangul > between Unicode 1.1 and 2.0 :) Yes, but NEVER AGAIN. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens

Re: Unicode 3.0.1 update beta data files available

2000-08-07 Thread John Cowan
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Kenneth Whistler wrote: >Added 10646-1 Annex P asterisk comments to 01A6, 0280. Well, the * is present, but the comment isn't! -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s

Re: Summary: xml:lang validity and RFC 1766 refs to outdated codes [l

2000-08-07 Thread John Cowan
nst an > ISO 639 list, then it will use the most current list available to it. A validating parser may do so, but it has no warrant for reporting a validity error if the language code is not on some list. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] C'est la` pourtant

Re: Encodings for SQL Databases

2000-08-07 Thread John Cowan
. True surrogate-unsafeness appears when you allow things like inserting characters into a string, in which case it is unsafe to allow inserting after a high-part surrogate. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du di

[Fwd: Addition of remaining two Maltese Characters to Unicode]

2000-08-01 Thread John Cowan
SGML entities (presumably NCHAR ones) so he can just redefine them as ordinary general entities with the 3 Unicode characters. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er

Re: Addition of remaining two Maltese Characters to Unicode

2000-08-01 Thread John Cowan
see what the fuss is all about. Because there is no end to such requests: there is hardly one of the thousands of languages written in the Latin script alone that does not require some extra work for collation or capitalization or character counting. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John

Re: Addition of remaining two Maltese Characters to Unicode

2000-08-01 Thread John Cowan
- but some languages may have collation rules that look internally inconsistent when represented in Unicode, and may require tricks with ZWNBSP, which I think is the Right Thing in this case. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst

Re: Euro

2000-07-31 Thread John Cowan
Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, John Cowan wrote: > > > http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/euro/euroglyph.html > > So you're taking it a "C"? I am realizing that people think the "I" of this page is me! It is not; I am no

Re: Euro

2000-07-30 Thread John Cowan
.ie/standards/iso10646/euro/euroglyph.html -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"

Re: Digits (Was: What a difference a glyph makes...)

2000-07-27 Thread John Cowan
the product of _s_, _i_, and _n_, whereas non-italic "sin" stands for "sine". -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, ||

Re: Question regarding bidirectional algorithm

2000-07-27 Thread John Cowan
method. > Wouldn't this screw up italicised characters? Hmm, an excellent point. Most math operators probably don't have natural italic/slant versions, though. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Sc

Re: RMS on Plan 9 license, with my comments

2000-07-25 Thread John Cowan
arge company based on selling the output of the program, the copyright owner might well sue. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.cc

Re: Plane 1 math characters

2000-07-25 Thread John Cowan
omplaint that _n_, _o_, and _t_ didn't have definitions, so I was unable to compute their product _not_. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau,

Re: What is the difference between i18n and l10n?

2000-07-21 Thread John Cowan
is depends on how different the two locales are. Usually it's hard enough to make you not want to do it more than once, at most. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn

Re: What is the difference between i18n and l10n?

2000-07-21 Thread John Cowan
ill be easy to add Spanish, Portuguese, Klingon at a later date. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und tra

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