The documentation is great, but I have had some problems copying text from it (with Acrobat Reader 5), in particular with text in small capitals e.g. Unicode character names. For example, I get the following from p.44:Well, I've been promising that good things would come to those who wait. ;-)
At last, the Unicode website has been updated with the online chapters for Unicode 4.0. See:
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/
Or just go to the Unicode 4.0 link from the home page.
Enjoy.
--Ken
P.S. Just FYI, Peter K., now it is o.k. for everyone to come back from their August Unicode vacations. Let the textual criticism begin!
The sequence of Unicode characters U+0061 “a”
+ U+0308 “!” + U+0075 “u”
unambiguously encodes “äu” not “aü”.
I mentioned this on another list, and received the following as part of a reply from an expert on PDF format:
Interesting and a little embarrassing that Unicode's own documentation is not Unicode compatible!For example, here is some text copied and pasted from the Unicode
Standard, p.44, http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch02.pdf:
Interesting choice, since this document was NOT produced using a Unicode-aware authoring tool - they used FrameMaker 6, which doesn't do Unicode.
FrameMaker was able to pass enough information into Acrobat Distiller so that SOME of the fonts used have ToUnicode tables - but they appear to be limited to symbol fonts and a few extra glyphs...
Therefore, without this information in the PDF, Acrobat is (understandably) unable to properly extract Unicode-based information from the document.
-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.qaya.org/
