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support for "surrogates", display, editing, etc. What's not to like? :)
Chris Pratley
Group Program Manager
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On 03/19/2001 03:45:51 AM Edward Cherlin wrote:
>Decent Unicode 3.1 support for considerably more scripts should be
>available in 2002. The ones with shaping issues are Mongolian,
>Syriac, Myanmar, Sinhala, Khmer, and to a lesser extent Ethiopic.
Ethiopic? What complex shaping issues are there
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From: Suzanne M. Topping [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 13:36
To: Unicode List
Subject: RE: Unicode market
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> From: Tex Texin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> We have estimates for (human) language usages on the web, its too
> bad there isn't an estimate for when Unicode will dominate.
You would think that you could project out some rough timeline for when
Unicode crosses ov
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: Unicode market acceptance
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> > -Original Message-
> > From: Richard Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> > Recently looking at and talking about this
> >
> > http://i18n.homepage.com/UnicodeBe
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> From: Richard Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Recently looking at and talking about this
>
> http://i18n.homepage.com/UnicodeBenefits.html
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> with some people, initiated and uninitiated, I quickly wrote this:
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> http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~rscook/Uni
Richard,
I moved my web site to:
http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/index.html
and the Unicode benefits page to:
http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/UnicodeBenefits.html
The benefits page now includes a link to your page.
tex
Richard Cook wrote:
> Recently looking at and talking about this
> with
On 03/09/2001 12:30:52 PM "Richard, Francois M" wrote:
>I sure would like to look at a comparison of these costs. Are they
available
>anywhere?
In Multilingual Computing #36, there was a book review of the book
"Translating Into Success: Cutting-Edge Strategies for Going Multilingual
in a Globa
Richard,
Looks excellent! I'll use some of those ideas and Michka's cost
comments.
By the way, homepage.com told me they are quitting the hosting
business so my pages will need to move again. I'll let you
know where it goes. Richard, you are welcome to host a copy
at your site. I'll make a note t
Tex Texin wrote:
>
> not the same as work for execs. The success of Unicode is obvious
> to us (techies) is not clear to them.
Tex,
Recently looking at and talking about this
http://i18n.homepage.com/UnicodeBenefits.html
with some people, initiated and uninitiated, I quickly wrote this:
http
ware, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:30 AM
Subject: RE: Unicode market acceptance
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> From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:26 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: Unicode market acceptance
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> One of the most compelling arguments for those managers is
> the
Try:
http://www.glreach.com/globstats/index.php3
I am sure the coverage is not the extent you want Peter.
Also from time to time I see forecasts of when some language will
be the primary language of x% of internet users, or
when x% of web pages will be in some language.
Would be interesting to
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On 03/09/2001 11:01:53 AM "Tex Texin" wrote:
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> >We have estimates for (human) language usages on the web
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> Do you mean the number of different languages used on the web? I'd be
> curious to know what such estimates are.
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>
> - Peter
>
On 03/09/2001 11:01:53 AM "Tex Texin" wrote:
>We have estimates for (human) language usages on the web
Do you mean the number of different languages used on the web? I'd be
curious to know what such estimates are.
- Peter
"Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: Unicode market acceptance
> Guys,
> I know the list of who's who using Unicode
Guys,
I know the list of who's who using Unicode. Me too is not a
compelling business argument. None of these put Unicode as
the sole character set to use, so its simply another way to go.
(OK, I know Java and XML please don't push back on these. Fundamentally,
although they use Unicode I can als
Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote:
> "It's what Microsoft uses" should work, methinks.
Tex Texin wrote:
> Not really. For one, many companies use platforms other than Windows.
Then add "And it's also used in *Java*, *HTML*, *SQL Server*, and *Oracle*.
Oh, by the way, and *IBM* has a *free* library to sup
Not really. For one, many companies use platforms other than Windows.
tex
Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote:
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> On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Tex Texin wrote:
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> > When I talk to business people about market acceptance as a function
> > of Java, XML, other standards and products such as database and
> > office
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Tex Texin wrote:
> When I talk to business people about market acceptance as a function
> of Java, XML, other standards and products such as database and
> office tools support it today, its still not as compelling as
> a statement that by this date, if you aren't supporting
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