<ruby><rb>じゅういっちゃん</rb><rp>(</rp><rt>Juuitchan</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>
Well, I guess what you say is true,
I could never be the right kind of girl for you,
I could never be your woman
- White Town
--- Original Message ---
差出人: "Magda Danish (Unicode)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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日時: 01/09/18 17:25
件名: FW: 6 questions
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bernard Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 5:19 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: 6 questions
>
>
>Hello,
>
>These are the questions I wanted to
>ask:
>
>1. Why does Unicode say that there are 63486 code
>values available to represent characters with single
>16 bit values and 2048 available to represent an
>additional 1,048,544 characters as surrogates? 65536 -
>2048 = 63488 (difference of 2) --I guess it's due to
>the 2 code values guaranteed not to be characters. But
>what about: 1024 x 1024 = 1,048,576 (difference of
>32), what accounts for the 32?
You can't have any character code end in FFFE or FFFF?
>
>2. CNS = chinese national standard? Why is there a
>chinese standard for japanese small variant forms
>(ch14, page 334 of Unicode 3.0 book)? Do CJK
>ideographs have small variant forms? Where are they?
If it is, not surprising. I am not sure, but I think Chinese fonts sometimes include
hiragana. (Why not? There aren't many of them, and they come in VERY handy for people
who bootleg Japanese CDs.)
>
>3. Why don't "noBreak" formatted Unicode characters
>have a canonical decomposition (the compatibility
>decomposition surrounded by glue)?
>
>4. Greek final sigma is not considered a compatibility
>decomposition (word position variant) because it's
>usage could also be dependant on spelling convention?
>Is that right? Even if so, isn't it more consistent to
>precede sigma with a non joiner if you don't want it
>to automatically be displayed as final sigma at the
>end of a word?
It is probably kept right where it is because of millenia of tradition.
>
>5. How come east asian width type W and H are non
>starters for line breaking?
>
>6. Why does Unicode use "capital" vs "small letter"
>terminology instead of "uppercase" vs "lowercase"? It
>seems like lowercase is more descriptive than "small
>letter".
Capital letters are actually "smaller" than lowercase, for Latin at least: no
descenders!!
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