Re: Unicode for Windows CE

2003-11-29 Thread mjabbar
Thanks for the link. It is good to know that MSKLC can be used for creating Keyboard Driver for WinCE. But is it true only truetype fonts can be used. No OTF? Thanks and refgares Mustafa Jabbar Quoting Christopher John Fynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Suggest you check the Global Development pages

Re: numeric properties of Nl characters in the UCD

2003-11-29 Thread Doug Ewell
Arcane Jill wrote: PLEASE don't quote me out of context, Doug. You can't quote This being so without also quoting what the This predicate was upon which the conclusions were based. As it happens, it was subsequently pointed out to me that the This predicate was, in fact, NOT so, therefore it

Re: Unicode for Windows CE

2003-11-29 Thread Christopher John Fynn
Thanks for the link. It is good to know that MSKLC can be used for creating Keyboard Driver for WinCE. But is it true only truetype fonts can be used. No OTF? Thanks and refgares Mustafa Jabbar I doubt that PostScript flavour OpenType fonts can be used since that would require some form of

RE: Oriya: nndda / nnta?

2003-11-29 Thread Peter Constable
-Original Message- From: Michael Everson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pronounced as you mean it here refers to the reading rules, not the structure of the script. That seems to me to be saying we should be encoding the structure of the script (a statement I'd agree with in general).

RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

2003-11-29 Thread Peter Constable
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Andries Is there any plan for Microsoft to support Unicode 4.0, distribute with its operating system the corresponding fonts and update the corresponding Character Map tools/charts (Office

RE: Oriya: mba / mwa ?

2003-11-29 Thread Peter Constable
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Everson 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.) Traditionally (as

RE: Oriya: nndda / nnta?

2003-11-29 Thread Michael Everson
At 12:32 -0800 2003-11-29, Peter Constable wrote: Pronounced as you mean it here refers to the reading rules, not the structure of the script. That seems to me to be saying we should be encoding the structure of the script (a statement I'd agree with in general). Sure. It can't be a NNTA

Need to update Technical Work page

2003-11-29 Thread Doug Ewell
I noticed the following on the Technical Work page on the Unicode Web site, at http://www.unicode.org/techwork.html: The Unicode Standard was the basis for the Universal Character Set, two-octet form (UCS-2) of ISO/IEC 10646. The Unicode Standards 65,536 code values are the first 65,536 code

Re: Compression through normalization

2003-11-29 Thread Doug Ewell
Someone, I forgot who, questioned whether converting Unicode text to NFC would actually improve its compressibility, and asked if any actual data was available. Certainly there is no guarantee that normalization would *always* result in a smaller file. A compressor that took advantage of

RE: Oriya: mba / mwa ?

2003-11-29 Thread Michael Everson
At 13:17 -0800 2003-11-29, 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.) Peter, I would take those TDIL publications with a very large grain of salt.

Re: Unicode for Windows CE

2003-11-29 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
I also sincrely doubt that MSKLC will create keyboards that will work on a CE device, to tell you the truth. Maybe they do, but they have never been tested there and I would be surprised if they had no problems (never forget the First Tester's Axiom!). MichKa [MS] NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard

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