Re: Number separators

2000-10-31 Thread James E. Agenbroad
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, James E. Agenbroad wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: Most of this happens to be in the Windows NLS database. See GetLocaleInfo in MSDN for details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase/nls_34rz.htm Or more specifically,

Re: Fonts that support the ORNL rendering of Tamil?

2000-10-31 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Monotype have the glyph in its repertoire: URL:http://www.monotype.com/non-latin/wt_glyphs/gr_tamil.html Yep -- but they do not seem to use it any of their fonts! The bottom line of the discussion on this subject some weeks ago was that it should be available as an option, so that the

Re: Fonts that support the ORNL rendering of Tamil?

2000-10-31 Thread Mark Davis
Can someone write up a description of the proposed change, with the attandant glyphs. There is a UTC meeting next week in San Diego, so now's the time. Mark - Original Message - From: "Antoine Leca" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000

Re: Fonts that support the ORNL rendering of Tamil?

2000-10-31 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
I am working on it, as we speak. michka a new book on internationalization in VB at http://www.i18nWithVB.com/ - Original Message - From: "Mark Davis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 8:45 AM Subject: Re: Fonts that support the ORNL

RE: Number separators

2000-10-31 Thread Ayers, Mike
From: James E. Agenbroad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Tuesday, October 31, 2000 You probably should check out what's done in India. The call hundred thousands "crores" and have a name I don't recall for tens of millions. I don't recall how

RE: A binary that runs on Win9X and WinNT

2000-10-31 Thread Jeff Hay-Roe
Chris Pratley wrote: That said, Basis Tech and some other third parties offer solutions for developers in this situation. Since they're making a business out of it, maybe we shouldn't offer an MS solution... :-) Can anyone here tell me what some of the other 3rd party solutions are? (Cheops is

Re: FW: Unicode version of atl.dll?

2000-10-31 Thread Antoine LECA \(portable\)
Sorry to enter into the bare technic. Carl W. Brown wrote: Win 3.x is a shell on DOS. That is quite a restrictive way of seeing things. When Win 3.x operates in enhanced mode, DOS is in fact run under a supervisor (named the VMM), using a special mode of the processor known as V86 (which is

OT: Relevance of Locale data?

2000-10-31 Thread Nesbitt, Gavin
A slightly off-topic question, but related to Unicode issues. Is it really necessary to have language specific day and month names for a locale that does not have an actual interface localization? Or to slightly rephrase, how relevant is it to developers that a locale contains "day 2 = tuesday

Re: OT: Relevance of Locale data?

2000-10-31 Thread Markus Scherer
Hi, for Java and ICU locales, if you don't specify something, you will get the string from the default/root locale. This would typically be in English. If you don't want English _and_ don't want to create 15 locales, then how about using number strings, like "10" for "October", or roman

[Fwd: Number separators]

2000-10-31 Thread Ram Viswanadha
I just got confirmation on this: 1 lakh - 1,00,000 1 crore -1,00,00,000 1 ??? - 1,00,00,00,000 1 lakh - 1,00,000 1 crore -1,00,00,000 1 arab - 1,00,00,00,000

RE: Number separators

2000-10-31 Thread 11digitboy
About those numbers: (^_^) Sometimes I like to write this for a pinball score: 34`8614`7040 Once I saw a Japanese use format like this: 42,9496,7296 but that is probably non-standard. ___ Get your own FREE Bolt Onebox - FREE