... Character 0xCB (decimal 203) is Lambda in ISO-8859-7/Windows-1253 but E-diaeresis in ISO-8859-1/Windows-1252; I'm sure the reason is related to that. -- ...
... This reminds me that some hyper-sensitive people complained that the name KIA is offensive to war veterans (particularly those of the Korean War) because...
... company's ... "Kil" ... I say it to myself that way as well. As Adecco displays its name with a final medial sigma, I tend to read its name as a drawled...
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:15:37 -0400, Philip Newton ... Thank you! Sorry for a delayed acknowledgment. Best regards, -- Nicholas Bodley Waltham, Mass. The weapon...
I was looking at some Thai crosswords, and I wondered what scripts people do crosswords in. In Thai crosswords, the items in the squares are preposed vowels,...
... Hebrew crosswords work as you might expect, with just the consonants. Since spelling isn't completely fixed in Hebrew, clues sometimes will note that a...
I need a Unicode font for Armenian. Unfortunately _every_ usable Armenian font I find at various sites omits the Armenian letter lower-case h; they simply...
Peter, ... I know nothing about Armenian, but this page has a number of Armenian fonts on it: http://chanae.walon.org/pub/ttf/armenian/ I looked at erevan.zip...
Thank you -- I hadn't found that page. It's amusing that its contact language for roman-readers is ... Romanian! grginor is the only one on the page that...
I don't think I've ever seen Walloon orthography. I believe I've just seen your name, though, while I've been hunting for Unicode fonts. -- Peter T. Daniels...
I've downloaded several fonts that are supposed to include Glagolitic according to the new Unicode standard 5.0 or even 5.1, and I cannot see them, either in...
The use of combining diacritics with a script is dependent on Uniscribe supporting the appropriate features for the scripts required. Word is OpenType savvy...
... Since Andrew answered the other question, I'll try this one. I have found that Windows Character map on XP and Office 2003 only recognize blocks that were...
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:05:17 -0400, Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> ... Note the word "pådje"; that seems to be Wallonian. I tried Wikipedia, first, and saw...
No, at some link from the "Japanese Unicode Gallery," the one that didn't know about the page of Armenian fonts, to some download source or other. -- Peter T....
Ishida doesn't have a "picker" for Glagolitic, but I found his master utility that provides far more information about penguins than anyone could possibly...
To add to Lorna's comments, its the same on Vista. Essentially Windows Character Map is limited to a subset of the BMP. You many want to look at alternative...
For those who are unaware, I guess Peter is referring to UniView http://rishida.net/scripts/uniview/?block=glagolitic Just thought I'd check that you're aware...
Does anyone know where to find the font SamyakSans.ttf? It covers a number of Indic scripts. Every link for it is to a defunct page at "gnowledge.org." -- ...
... Are you looking specifically for the Sans serif font? You can download Samyak here: http://sarovar.org/projects/samyak/ but it doesn't include the sans...
Someone emailed me a link to an archived version of the gnowledge page, whose old link for both versions of Samyak worked (the Unicode Gallery is not aware of...
... Want something that used to be on the internet? The Wayback machine is your friend... ...
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Dear Qalamites, While not strictly on-topic, this message (a reply to a message I'd sent) seemed to be of uncommon interest. Mr. Hosny is one of the people who...
A Selectric ball carried 92 glyphs, and they were very cleverly designed. Arabic instructional materials from the 1970s were frequently typed that way (see the...
I am having difficulty interpreting some Hurrian 'transliterations'. The problem is that some readings are outside the Akkadian range, and the texts are too...
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