Re: ?MP = Multi*lingual* plane?

2014-03-05 Thread Marion Gunn
things work? A./ ___ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland. * mg...@egt.ie

Re: Language Death

2013-12-11 Thread Marion Gunn
st 7,776 languages are in use in the greater offline world." Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis> / / /— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —/ // -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland. *mg...@egt.ie *eam...@egt.ie *

Re: Mail list changes for 2014

2013-12-04 Thread Marion Gunn
ed so that users do receive copies of messages they send. Rick -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland. * mg...@egt.ie * eam...@egt.ie *

Re: Mayan numerals (again)

2013-12-03 Thread Marion Gunn
h forms on the same page non-interchangably, if that helps. -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland. * mg...@egt.ie * eam...@egt.ie *

Re: Mayan numerals (again)

2013-07-01 Thread Marion Gunn
w that, contrarily to man6 readers of this list, I have no experience in Unicode procedures beyond what I could guess by reading archived proposals available on Internet. Frédéric Grosshans -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland. * mg...@egt.ie * eam...@egt.ie *

Re: Mayan numerals

2012-09-29 Thread Marion Gunn
believe that. though a Unicode Technical Committee rejection would probably sway several national bodies. Q.E.D. mg Richard. -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland. * mg...@egt.ie * eam...@egt.ie *

Re: VS: Mayan numerals

2012-09-27 Thread Marion Gunn
up to do, to the benefit of all, whereby even such companies as have no faith in the wisdom of native communities to know what is best for their world today would benefit. mg -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath,

Re: VS: Mayan numerals

2012-09-26 Thread Marion Gunn
age in my proposal? As you've probably guessed by now, I think you should... but I have no experience at all in the encoding process! ... -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland. * mg...@egt.ie * eam...@egt.ie *

Re: Mayan numerals

2012-09-21 Thread Marion Gunn
stent. Apart from the duplication. Mayan scholars and encoding experts may later decide that a duplication isn't necessary and re-use these "modern representations" as part of the encoding for the ancient system. But that's neither here nor there as far as the use case prese

Re: Mayan numerals

2012-08-25 Thread Marion Gunn
s with the Mayan communities in the Yucatan peninsula, Belize, or Honduras.) I hope this helps, Yes, greatly. Jameson -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland. * mg...@egt.ie * eam...@egt.ie *

Re: Mayan numerals

2012-08-24 Thread Marion Gunn
arate them from the script. Also in light of what we learned about their use in education. That's not "scholarly" use, which is the usual bench mark for how to encode ancient scripts. A./ -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair,

Re: Too narrowly defined: DIVISION SIGN & COLON

2012-07-11 Thread Marion Gunn
search for that at all! :-) mg It’s interesting to see such usage—it’s probably the most common use of non-BMP characters that people encounter, even thought we are usually ignorant of what’s really happening here, and it *looks* like play with fonts only. Yucca -- Marion Gunn * eGteo

Re: Unicode 6.2 to Support the Turkish Lira Sign

2012-05-23 Thread Marion Gunn
price indicators in fresh food markets) : you recognize the euro, but you hardly find the shape of a C as it is clearly truncated of its upper arm. -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland. * mg...@egt.ie * eam...@egt.ie *

Re: Is there a term for strictly-just-this-encoding-and-not-really-that-encoding?

2010-11-11 Thread Marion Gunn
do believe you! Ádh mór ort (Good luck), mg - Frank -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland * mg...@egt.ie * eam...@egt.ie *

ISO/TC 37 Conference 2010

2010-08-10 Thread Marion Gunn
ld like to make arrangements to meet up with NSAI delegates may do so by responding to this e-mail. Sincerely, mg * -- Marion Gunn * eGteo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, An Charraig Dhubh, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire/Ireland * mg...@egt.ie * eam...@egt.ie *

Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-18 Thread Marion Gunn
ee to > take the concept and go off and write it in your spare time. And > if you architect it with a platform-independent system wrapper, > so much the better. > > And since Unibook is "available free of charge for downloading" > I don't think that customers will be

Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-17 Thread Marion Gunn
greedy to run normal, essential Mac thingies at the same time). Is it really so hard to make multi-platform, open-office-type utilities? mg > > A./ > > PS: To those of you who downloaded 4.0.1 already, the zip archive was > missing the install.bat file. That's been fixed.

Re: Unibook 4.0.1 available

2004-09-16 Thread Marion Gunn
my fellow 10646 editors, note that this is the version of the > program used to prepare FPDAM1 and PDAM2. -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Glyph variants vs. glyphic variants

2004-09-01 Thread Marion Gunn
> > Thanks in advance for any views on this! > > Best regards, > > Marc Küster -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: What is the principle?

2004-03-28 Thread Marion Gunn
t. Hence the name, or >so I have always assumed. You can see this form in some older fonts. It >has also been made identical to the tilde, but I'm pretty certain the >upside-down-breve is the original form. > >Séamas Ó Brógáin > -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1

Re: Irish dotless I (was: Languages with letters that always takediacriticals

2004-03-19 Thread Marion Gunn
mine will not object to that. mg -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Irish dotless I

2004-03-19 Thread Marion Gunn
exactly the point. When the dot-convention for lenition is being used, >the "i" should never be dotted, even when using a non-Gaelic font, because >there's no such thing as a lenited "i" in Irish. > >It's not a character-glyph issue. -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Irish dotless I

2004-03-19 Thread Marion Gunn
When the dot-convention for lenition is being used, >the "i" should never be dotted, even when using a non-Gaelic font, because >there's no such thing as a lenited "i" in Irish. > >It's not a character-glyph issue. -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Irish undotted i

2004-03-19 Thread Marion Gunn
sh font my Department refused to purchase, but which fired my hungry soul's imagination. mg -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Irish dotless I

2004-03-19 Thread Marion Gunn
in calligraphy, which could help). Thanks for recounting your keyboardmaking experiences, Carl (which must have been painful, even to recount). It is a comfort to see an intelligent person publicly admitting to 'thousands of dollars down the drain' on an investment which failed to pay. And yet more of a comfort to see such as you and I can afterwards not only survive, but thrive! Best, mg -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: What's the BMP being saved for?

2004-03-19 Thread Marion Gunn
een sending and delivery of Unicode list msgs, sometimes. mg -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Irish dotless I (was: Languages with letters that always take diacriticals

2004-03-17 Thread Marion Gunn
capable of discriminating according to context. Offering such thoughts, for what they are worth, as a fine night follows a gloriously sunny Patrick's Day in Ireland. mg -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: OT? Languages with letters that always take diacriticals

2004-03-16 Thread Marion Gunn
ish in traditional script is written i without dot above. The current flooding of our local advertising and publishing markets by various non-native uncial fonts to write our language goes against tradition in imposing on us that unwanted dot. Is there any way at all that using Unicode can help suppo

Alpha and/or Numeric

2004-02-04 Thread Marion Gunn
Chuig: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's with the proposed new part(s) of ISO 639 - are new codes likely to go alpha or numeric or combo? Anyone know? mg -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Useful Breton links

2004-01-17 Thread Marion Gunn
>There are "true" public schools that teach in Breton... >Eric. >>Philippe Verdy: >> >>>I'd really like to know more about Breton, but the fact is that despite I am >>>a native Breton and live there in Britanny... -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Es

[OT] Voiced velar fricative

2003-11-06 Thread Marion Gunn
mistakes to their cost in re the above and similar pairings. Hope this helps, mg -- Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991) 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Announcement re NSAI/ISO/TC 46 IG

2003-09-23 Thread Marion Gunn
d documentation'.***(URL) If you are interested in ISO/TC 46 issues, it would be appreciated if you would bring them to the notice of NSAI/ISO/TC 46/IG. New members welcome. Fáilte ar leith roimh chomhfhreagras as Gaeilge. Marion Gunn, Convener, NSAI/ISO/TC 46/IG -- Marion Gunn * EGT

Re: Handwritten EURO sign (off topic?)

2003-08-15 Thread Marion Gunn
complicate/simplify matters further: I am recently returned from an academic conference in Scotland where I was invited to give a paper, and a few days ago just added £10 of my leftover UK currency from that trip to a handful of euro to buy something here. mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1

Re: [OT] French Government Bans the Term 'E-Mail'

2003-07-22 Thread Marion Gunn
s to be [over]used >everywhere. Maybe someone from Apple who has talked to their marketing folks >lately could comment > >MichKa I read that 'i' (in the Apple context) as meaning 'i(nternet ready)'. It is possible I could be wrong about that. Am I? mg -- Mari

Re: [OT] French Government Bans the Term 'E-Mail'

2003-07-21 Thread Marion Gunn
s to be [over]used >everywhere. Maybe someone from Apple who has talked to their marketing folks >lately could comment > >MichKa I read that 'i' (in the Apple context) as meaning 'i(nternet ready)'. It is possible I could be wrong about that. Am I? mg -- Mari

Re: Address of ISO 3166 mailing list

2003-06-06 Thread Marion Gunn
l! - and go do it anyway). mg >tex -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Address of ISO 3166 mailing list

2003-06-05 Thread Marion Gunn
I attach confirmation that there is (as I expected) no ISO 3166 mailing list for discussions. Any takers for establishing one, for Sarasvati to send people to cool off in another pool?:-) mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Address of ISO 3166 mailing list

2003-06-04 Thread Marion Gunn
ent, as a matter of urgency. That may seem selfish, but it is necessary to look out for one's own countries in all of these matters, or others may determine them (sans guarantee of satisfaction in any quarter). mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

ISO 3166-1 decoding table [was: Re: Northern Ireland]

2003-06-04 Thread Marion Gunn
keep rafts of such refs, many of which need updating now, which is why dedicated mailing lists, where such exist, are most likely to help. mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Address of ISO 3166 mailing list

2003-06-04 Thread Marion Gunn
fact I am only discovering now that some things such as this, which I had taken for granted as being registered/reserved for/by NSAI have yet to be so registered/reserved. For this I blame only my own failure to discover this until lately. Thanks, mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://

Re: Language Tags and Character Sets

2003-06-03 Thread Marion Gunn
ing that approach to see if we could do the same with frequency measures of IPA charsets to tentatively fix borders between dialects, treating sounds as isoglosses, as it were, in tandem with our usual syntactic/wordstore analyses. No idea if that would work, but it is something I wish to raise first wi

Re: Language Tag Registrations

2003-06-01 Thread Marion Gunn
is okay, and we wish you well in bringing all queries to harmonious conclusions, if possible. mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: "my browser ... puts up a box"

2003-06-01 Thread Marion Gunn
al from Reuters, which is of no help. Do you (in Washington.EDU) have some response to that question? mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: "my browser ... puts up a box"

2003-06-01 Thread Marion Gunn
Ar 12:25 -0400 2003/05/31, scríobh John Cowan: >Marion Gunn scripsit: > >> What, then, is the code for the English of 'Northern Ireland'? >> (GB+NI=UK.) > >GB is, for better and worse, the code for the United Kingdom of Great >Britain and Northern Ireland.

Re: "my browser ... puts up a box"

2003-06-01 Thread Marion Gunn
Ar 12:25 -0400 2003/05/31, scríobh John Cowan: >Marion Gunn scripsit: > >> What, then, is the code for the English of 'Northern Ireland'? >> (GB+NI=UK.) > >GB is, for better and worse, the code for the United Kingdom of Great >Britain and Northern Ireland.

Re: FW: The role of country codes/Not snazzy

2003-06-01 Thread Marion Gunn
talogue of languages is >a pipe-dream; and I'd also add, it's naive. > >- Peter > > >--- >Peter Constable > >Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International >7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA >Tel: +1 972 708 7485 -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Not snazzy (was: New Unicode Savvy Logo)

2003-06-01 Thread Marion Gunn
the development are optimized, to avoid creating >>unmaintainable source code. >... There you lose me, as I do not comprehend the above sentence - could you rephrase it, perhaps? mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

RE: The role of country codes/Not snazzy

2003-05-30 Thread Marion Gunn
e between en-IE and en-GB, > >The vowel in "f*ck". :-) >... >-- >John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.ccil.org/~cowan -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

A new font called Gentium

2003-02-19 Thread Marion Gunn
This adds two menus to the menu bar which makes entering Unicode characters much easier. This is available from http://hem.fyristorg.com/dahloe/uniqoder/ [...] -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Handwritten EURO sign

2003-02-07 Thread Marion Gunn
? Reminded to post this by seeing the latter in very large handwriting yesterday, at the pay-in desk to popular football grounds close to where I live. mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: FW: New version of TR29:

2002-08-20 Thread Marion Gunn
e actually unique to English, and has anyone proposed a separate encoding of it,:-) or is it enough to just adapt Marco's TR29 proposal in the direction I suggested to accommodate it? mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: FW: New version of TR29:

2002-08-20 Thread Marion Gunn
trusive apostrophe to anglicize Irish surnames, where 'The apostrophe is [NOT] part of the word that precedes it, and an implicit word break comes [NOT] after it.' O'Donnell Abú! mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: FW: New version of TR29:

2002-08-20 Thread Marion Gunn
trusive apostrophe to anglicize Irish surnames, where 'The apostrophe is [NOT] part of the word that precedes it, and an implicit word break comes [NOT] after it.' O'Donnell Abú! mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Mac OS X Keyboard Layouts (was Re: new version of Keyman)

2002-08-16 Thread Marion Gunn
, which, thankfully, is after August >24. > >I will try to post something on August 24 giving the basics. > >Deborah Goldsmith >Manager, Fonts & Unicode >Apple Computer, Inc. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Mac OS X Keyboard Layouts (was Re: new version of Keyman)

2002-08-16 Thread Marion Gunn
, which, thankfully, is after August >24. > >I will try to post something on August 24 giving the basics. > >Deborah Goldsmith >Manager, Fonts & Unicode >Apple Computer, Inc. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: new version of Keyman

2002-08-13 Thread Marion Gunn
k for Apple today on these lists, who might have good news for users for whom System 10 is proving too cumbersome to use without EGT's traditional keyboards - having to press 3-4 keys (Sys. 10), instead of just 2-3 (Sys. 9) is not on? mg -- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.

Re: Unicode certification - was RE: Dublin Conference/StandardDisclaimer

2002-07-25 Thread Marion Gunn
Arsa James Kass : > ... > The couple of boys > in the back room could do it, and possibly figure out a way to do it > profitably... My thought exactly. But, to voice such equals soliciting business.:-) Still, a good idea, by all accounts. mg > James Kass -- Marion Gunn * E G T (

Re: Unicode certification - was RE: Dublin Conference/StandardDisclaimer

2002-07-25 Thread Marion Gunn
it. It works for operating > system releases and other stuff, why not here as well? > > Dave > = > Dave Possin > Globalization Consultant > www.Welocalize.com -- Marion Gunn * E G T (Estab.1991) vox: +353-1-2839396 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Contae Átha Cliath; Éire

Re: Dublin Conference: Re: ISO/IEC 10646 versus Unicode

2002-07-24 Thread Marion Gunn
by Unicode members as just that: as approved implementations of the standard they 'consort' to create, and for there to be a growing registry to match, but I see now that was either wishful thinking, or thinking too far ahead, which can often happen. mg > -Doug Ewell > Fullerton,

Re: The standard disclaimer

2002-07-24 Thread Marion Gunn
avourite of mine: _The HH Guide to the Galaxy_ (the 4th bk of the trilogy, specifically). mg -- Marion Gunn * E G T (Estab.1991) vox: +353-1-2839396 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Contae Átha Cliath; Éire

Re: Dublin Conference: Re: ISO/IEC 10646 versus Unicode

2002-07-24 Thread Marion Gunn
/sc2/open/02n3614.pdf > ... Thanks. Merging the 2 parts is an advance on last year. I see nothing else unusual in those mins, bar the failure to spell Newgrange correctly.:-) mg -- Marion Gunn * E G T (Estab.1991) vox: +353-1-2839396 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Contae Átha Cliath; Éire

Dublin Conference: Re: ISO/IEC 10646 versus Unicode

2002-07-24 Thread Marion Gunn
erning job advertising on the list. I shall not do that again. I hope this helps. mg Marion Gunn * E G T (Estab.1991) vox: +353-1-2839396 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Contae Átha Cliath; Éire

Re: Dublin Conference: Re: ISO/IEC 10646 versus Unicode

2002-07-23 Thread Marion Gunn
opriate to this list. mg -- Marion Gunn * E G T (Estab.1991) vox: +353-1-2839396 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Contae Átha Cliath; Éire

Re: Dublin Conference: Re: ISO/IEC 10646 versus Unicode

2002-07-23 Thread Marion Gunn
sharing basis. To return to matters more important to other list members, let me say that I appreciate Peter Constable's attempt to reply to my badly-phrased query, and ask him, making due allowance for my ignorance, to tell me what WG32's timetable for 10646 now is. mg -- Marion Gunn * E G T (Estab.1991) vox: +353-1-2839396 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Contae Átha Cliath; Éire

Re: ISO/IEC 10646 versus Unicode

2002-07-22 Thread Marion Gunn
Arsa Kenneth Whistler: > > Marion Gunn wrote: > > > > How many years does it take to get ISO/IEC work item accepted, then > > develop the corresponding Standard to publication stage, Ken? > > In the case of 10646, approximately 10 years, Marion. > ... 10 year

Re: ISO/IEC 10646 versus Unicode

2002-07-19 Thread Marion Gunn
lighter note, if one tinged with black humour - Dublin being home to 3 universities at the cutting edge of IT - why - of awl da bars in awl da wurrall - did Unicode pick on a hotel favoured by myself, my friends and my workmates - then ship into that space a provincial university for full-day work

Re: ISO/IEC 10646 versus Unicode

2002-07-18 Thread Marion Gunn
], [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-07-18 -- Marion Gunn * E G T (Estab.1991) vox: +353-1-2839396 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Contae Átha Cliath; Éire

Re: Astral planes again (was: RE: Plane One use,was Re: HTML Validation)

2001-12-19 Thread Marion Gunn
Arsa Kenneth Whistler: > Rick Cameron suggested: > > > Would it be useful to have one term for planes 1-16 and another for all > > planes above the BMP? Perhaps the former are astral and the latter > > celestial. ;^) > >... > > --Ken > How about INFRA-

Re: origin of term caron

2001-10-26 Thread Marion Gunn
n out there? > > Perhaps it was the same person who confused guillemots with guillemets... > > Al. -- Marion Gunn ** EGT ** <http://www.egt.ie> ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Áth Cliath; Éire * guth/vox: +353-1-383 9396 * facsa/fax: +353-1- 269 4409 *

Everson Gunn Teoranta (EGT) & Everson Typography

2001-09-20 Thread Marion Gunn
aghaidh i seilbh agus faoi stiúradh Mharion Gunn. Guíonn Marion agus Michael dá chéile, dá gcustaiméirí agus dá lucht teagmhála i gcéin agus i gcóngar sláinte, sonas agus séan, agus dúil mhór i ngach céim dá rince féin feasta. Michael Everson Marion Gunn JOINT ANNOUNCEMENT

Re: Weird characters that are hard to pigeonhole. (was: how to telljapanese from chinese)

2001-06-11 Thread Marion Gunn
e-mail msg). mg   -- Marion Gunn Everson Gunn Teoranta <http://www.egt.ie>  

Putting unicode@unicode.org first (in the To:field)

2001-04-04 Thread Marion Gunn
g unicode. Date: 04 Apr 2001 14:53:01 +0100 From: Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dennis L. Goyette Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: 1 , 2 ... -- Marion Gunn Everson Gunn Teoranta <http://www.egt.ie>

[unicode] Re: Helpful info

2001-03-25 Thread Marion Gunn
tely was 2-3 days ago, when I downloaded the entire list of subscribers, including my own address, from the unicode site).:-( Which is what prompted my own e-mail of today to the list, specifically requesting my address be given status 'hidden'. mg > -- Sarasvati -- Marion Gunn *

[unicode] OT (spam)

2001-03-25 Thread Marion Gunn
day, costing money I cannot afford on a daily basis. As of now, I feel like sending my telephone bills to the DOT-COM Maintenace Agency (if there is such a thing). Is there? mg -- Marion Gunn * Everson Gunn Teoranta 27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn; Baile an Bhóthair; Áth Cliath; Éire (Ireland) +353-1-283

[unicode] Re: Spam being sent to the list?

2001-03-22 Thread Marion Gunn
uess, under LISTAR). > > The mail was listed as being from [EMAIL PROTECTED] if that helps track > down how it got through. > It is easy to set up Eudora (or similar) filters to protect your professional address against e-mail from 'free' addresses (that is, from people who hav

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-22 Thread Marion Gunn
ement systems around, and I look forward to just letting him get on with installing that. mg -- Marion Gunn Everson Gunn Teoranta <http://www.egt.ie>

Re: Klingon silliness

2001-02-28 Thread Marion Gunn
reliably informed that they only cling on. mg -- Marion Gunn Everson Gunn Teoranta <http://www.egt.ie>

Re: Kana and Case (was [totally OT] Unicode terminology)

2000-11-24 Thread Marion Gunn
Arsa Michael Everson: > ... > Arguably, more has been written in and about Tengwar and Cirth than has > been written about the "non-fictional" Elbasan or Nsibidi scripts. Only because devils find work for idle hands to do when angels are otherwise engaged. mg -- Mario

Re: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-21 Thread Marion Gunn
which is also why I favour "allied languages", which neatly sidesteps the question of hierarchical relationships, real, implied, or created for any political purpose, so that Croatian-Bosnian-Serbian then become linguistic allies for solid linguistic reasons, nothing more implied. mg

Re: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-21 Thread Marion Gunn
Perhaps one may also fill reports to make clearer that most if not all > of these different entries are mutually intelligible (at least to the extend > that the language I am speaking when speaking of linguistics or of Unicode is > intelligible to the average French-speaking person). > > Antoine -- Marion Gunn Everson Gunn Teoranta <http://www.egt.ie>

Re: New Locale Proposal

2000-09-19 Thread Marion Gunn
E.g. Lojban, > >a currently untagged language, might get the tags "loj" and "lj". > >(When Hell freezes over.) > > No, just after Klingon gets them. > > Michael Everson ** Everson Gunn Teoranta ** http://www.egt.ie > 15 Port Chaeimhghein Íochtarac

Re: New Locale Proposal

2000-09-18 Thread Marion Gunn
applying to AT InfoTerm for 639-1 codes have, in future, as you say below, simultaneously to satisfy 639-2 US LOC requirements. mg Arsa John Cowan: > Marion Gunn wrote: > > > > The opposite it true, Doug. ISO 639 will ONLY issue new 639-1 > > (two-letter) codes for languages th

Re: New Locale Proposal

2000-09-18 Thread Marion Gunn
#x27;s > solution, which is the same as that proposed in RFC 1766 bis, should > work fine. > > -Doug Ewell > Fullerton, California -- Marion Gunn Everson Gunn Teoranta <http://www.egt.ie>

Re: Linguistic precedence [was: (TC304.2313)

2000-06-16 Thread Marion Gunn
--- > SEIRBHÍSÍ LEABHAR15 Céide na Coirre Báine > Seanchill > Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath +353 1 2721181 > Éirinn/Ireland [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.iol.ie/~leabhair > -- Marion Gunn Everson Gunn Teoranta <http://www.egt.ie>