Re: Combining macron on Mac

2001-01-10 Thread Jukka Korpela
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Katsuhiko Momoi wrote: How do users input or get a Latin letter (usually a vowel) with a macron (-) over it on Macintosh, e.g. to represent a long vowel in Japanese. - - If this is not possible by conventional means, what are alternatives? I have no idea of what might

Re: relation between unicode and font

2001-01-05 Thread Jukka . Korpela
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, sreekant wrote: font face="Tikkana"A B /font is being shown as some telugu characters. That's basically a browser bug, though some people have seen it as a method of extending character repertoire. It has absolutely nothing to do with Unicode. For an explanation of the

Re: relation between unicode and font

2001-01-05 Thread Jukka Korpela
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:59:27 -0800 (GMT-0800), you wrote: With that said, this type of "bug" is actually by design for many languages that have speakers who are not using Unicode. When you look (for example) at Indic languages on the web, the vast majority of them are handled by this type font

Re: character mapping

2000-12-14 Thread Jukka . Korpela
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, sreekant wrote: I have typed some characters in telugu in some language editor and stored it as a html page. This might mean various things, and some of them have nothing to do with Unicode. I suppose it would in most cases mean that you have used an editor which displays

Re: conversion of ascii to utf-8

2000-12-10 Thread Jukka . Korpela
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, sreekant wrote: The 7-bit ASCII text on the web is the only common format that is truly supported in all countries. More or less so, although not even all ASCII characters are "safe", due to different "national variants of ASCII". Technically, the variants are not ASCII

Re: FW: embedding in HTML

2000-11-27 Thread Jukka . Korpela
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Magda Danish (Unicode) wrote: -Original Message- From: Kai Andresen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] - - How is it possible to embed characters of the IPA Extensions, as shown at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0250.pdf into HTML? Is a 'meta'-tag necessary?

Re: Characters in early sets

2000-11-17 Thread Jukka . Korpela
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Doug Ewell wrote: Some early character sets have a Greek capital delta. The "obvious" mapping is to U+0394 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA, but there is also U+2206 INCREMENT, which shares the identical glyph. - - I am inclined to map the delta-as-symbol to U+2206 rather

Re: Latvian palatalised consonants

2000-10-17 Thread Jukka . Korpela
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Herman Ranes wrote: Is the use of the existing precomposed characters in the Latin Extended-A block considered 'right' for encoding Latvian palatal consonants, or is it considered 'wrong' so that I will have to use composites with U+0326 'Combining comma below' in stead?

Re: Encoding????????????

2000-09-28 Thread Jukka . Korpela
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Sandeep Krishna wrote: can someone tell me...what does the Encoding in the browser (IE5) imlpy. That's a good question. Internet Explorer 5 is relatively advanced in the area of handling different encodings. It seems to honor the encoding ("charset") as advertized in