Re: Brahmic list ? (was: Oriya: mba / mwa ?)

2003-11-30 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote: Please don't use UTF-8 to encode anything other than Unicode code points. As long as I use it internally for intermediate processing, I can do what I want. For now it is just a convenient way to represent variable size integers up

RE: Brahmic list ? (was: Oriya: mba / mwa ?)

2003-11-30 Thread Philippe Verdy
As long as you are sure that this will not leak out into the outside world, you are free to use the UTF-8 mechanism internally to represent any type of 31-bit data you like, including this private replacement for allkeys.txt. (You do know about allkeys.txt, don't you? And the fact that UCA

Re: Brahmic list ? (was: Oriya: mba / mwa ?)

2003-11-30 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote: As I have not determined the correct size of these bitfields, I need some intermediate solution to pack them a little, and the UTF-8 TES (not the UTF-8 CES used by Unicode)venient for now, until I change it to a better encoding, which

Brahmic list ? (was: Oriya: mba / mwa ?)

2003-11-29 Thread Philippe Verdy
Michael Everson writes: Peter Constable wrote: I think the TDIL chart is wrong. It seems reasonable that one should need extra persuasion to take the word of an American living in Ireland over Indians. (Sorry.) Isn't there a specific list for Brahmic scripts? ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ???).

Re: Brahmic list ? (was: Oriya: mba / mwa ?)

2003-11-29 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr wrote: I've tried to experiment a collation algorithm to implement UCA by the same system as used in UCD decompositions, but with added (and sometimes modified) decompositions. This system creates new code points needed to represent only

Re: Brahmic list ? (was: Oriya: mba / mwa ?)

2003-11-29 Thread Christopher John Fynn
Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also think that Tibetan issues should be discussed in that list, despite its composition model is very different from Brahmic scripts of India, unless there's a specific rapporteur group for it. There already is a specific list for Tibetan script