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<http://www.kotovnik.com/~avg/rosetta/rosetta.html> Caveat: I have only scanned the document, but what I did see looks very sensible. For the record, I do...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 1, 2003
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1364
My understanding (confirmed by several Indians) has always been that Indian languages (that may be a bit vague) use the comma every two digits, except for the...
Richard Ishida
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Apr 1, 2003
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... I have read it, and it is riddled with elementary errors and misunderstandings about Unicode. Furthermore, it has many of the same deficiencies it accuses...
John Cowan
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Apr 1, 2003
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* Nicholas Bodley ... That's not a Unicode problem, though. It's a problem with that particular browser, caused by a general problem with big character sets....
Lars Marius Garshol
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... The simplest way to make a screenshot is to press Ctrl-PrtSc, which copies the entire screen contents to the clipboard. Then run Paint from the...
John Cowan
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Thanks John, I was not very clear but it was the last part - where to put the graphic - that I was struggling with. The help text "How do I upload a file?" ...
Richard Ishida
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1369
... How a particular combination of broswer, font and system chooses to render Vietnamese text is not determined by Unicode, so this is hardly evidence of ...
John Hudson
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Apr 1, 2003
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... Moreover, a draft that remains such for six years should probably be called "a relic". IMHO, the author of that invention abandoned it when he discovered...
Marco Cimarosti
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... It's in the lower left corner, just below the list of existing files. -- There are three kinds of people in the world: John Cowan those who can count,...
John Cowan
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... If you press Alt-PrtScn in Windows, it will copy to the clipboard a shot of the window that currently has focus, rather than the whole screen. That's ...
Peter_Constable@...
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Apr 2, 2003
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On a few occasions in the past there has been discussion of typeforms involving a base character modified by some appendage that is connected, and it has been...
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Apr 2, 2003
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... I can't see any advantage to such atomic encoding in a modern text processing environment with smart font support. It is easy enough to map e.g. b +...
John Hudson
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... In a unicoRe thread last fall, Ken Whistler wrote on 2002-10-15: <quote> Just another example of the line that had to be drawn for decompositions....
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... On a Mac you can get the entire screen with Command-Shift-3, and with Command-Shift-4 you can draw the rectangle that will be shown, and with ...
Peter T. Daniels
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Apr 2, 2003
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... Does it differ graphically from the nasal hook of Polish and Lithuanian? -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
Peter T. Daniels
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"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote on 04/02/2003 ... Yes: it's like a small dotless j attached to the nominal base character at the baseline...
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... With the assistance of John Wells, I've got samples from three different sources on Russian (two linguistic studies on Russian phonetics, and one ... b...
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Bisharat maintains an "A12n" gateway page to resources on African language characters, encoding, fonts, and keyboards, with attention mainly to languages using...
Don Osborn
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Apr 3, 2003
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... Although I know better, I nevertheless think I fell into the trap of attributing value to an arbitrary document. As a friend points out,the Internet's...
Nicholas Bodley
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... Not sure why, but the Print Screen key alone in my machine suffices to capture the screen to the Clipboard. I use IrfanView (imho, really excellent) to...
Nicholas Bodley
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... render Vietnamese text is not determined by Unicode, so this is hardly evidence of 'weaknesses' in Unicode. Imho, worth pointing out. Surely so. ... Or...
Nicholas Bodley
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Sorry to add a comment after posting... ... Esc. {added} When it quits, your work is not saved, either. Thanks! - nb...
Nicholas Bodley
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... I should have added, those three have not been the only sources. Other sources I have found include an Int'l Phonetic Association publication. - Peter ... ...
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Dear Qalamites, The people of the world prefer peace to war and they deserve to have it. Bombs are not needed to solve international problems, just respect and...
Marco Cimarosti
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Page title, with cap. B, here: Bibliotheca Augustana Sorry if your software doesn't deal gracefully with long ones... ...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 3, 2003
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... Evidently a slightly different edition. I no longer know the exact source of my .sig, which is one of the oldest of the lot. ... My favorite JWG story:...
John Cowan
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Apr 3, 2003
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Sorry about Chanson de Roland; I had thought that the subsequent discussion was on Qalam. Maybe I'm confused, but there was some off-list follow-up. Regards, ...
Nicholas Bodley
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... I loved the language in yours, not that I could understand all of it. ... [...] Lovely story! Best regards, Nicholas Bodley |@| Waltham, Mass. Opera...
Nicholas Bodley
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... "Charles the king, our great emperor / Seven full years has been in Spain." -- Not to perambulate John Cowan <jcowan@...> the...
John Cowan
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Nearly two years later ... it would be interesting to know what became of the project, and indeed what languages were involved. There are apparently often...
Don Osborn
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