Re: Precomposed Unicode layouts and permutations (was:Re: hello + UTF-8

2005-08-07 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 08/08/2005, at 2:42 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: With the size of the Unicode set, there is nothing to stop there being a precomposed layout out there, as long as someone has created it. Er, it takes more than someone creating it -- it takes getting it made part of the Unicode standard

Re: Precomposed Unicode layouts and permutations (was:Re: hello + UTF-8

2005-08-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:16:55PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote: > On 08/08/2005, at 5:41 AM, || स्वक्ष || svaksha wrote: > >Hope that helps somewhat and sorry for the long post :) > Not at all, it was very interesting and helpful. > With the size of the Unicode set, there is nothing to stop ther

Re: Another "Women in Open Source" Session

2005-08-07 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 08/08/2005, at 8:17 AM, Danese Cooper wrote: Unless you count the comment that the list should be called "Apache Squaws" :-). I like "Scalpers' Shortcuts" :D from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do) http://groups-beta.google.com/gr

Re: Precomposed Unicode layouts and permutations (was:Re: hello + UTF-8

2005-08-07 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 08/08/2005, at 5:41 AM, || स्वक्ष || svaksha wrote: Hope that helps somewhat and sorry for the long post :) Not at all, it was very interesting and helpful. With the size of the Unicode set, there is nothing to stop there being a precomposed layout out there, as long as someone has crea

Re: Another "Women in Open Source" Session

2005-08-07 Thread Danese Cooper
Hey Hanna, It went pretty well :-). Room was full of supporters. I plugged the success of Debian-Women a bit, so we might expect to see more newbies. At the end one of the panelists proposed a general discussion list about Women in Open Source and we asked for a show of hands and saw 1

Re: Precomposed Unicode layouts and permutations (was:Re: hello + UTF-8

2005-08-07 Thread || स्वक्ष || svaksha
On 8/7/05, Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 07/08/2005, at 5:44 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > FWIW, I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as a precomposed > > layout for > > devanagari script; the combinatorics (pairing each possible vowel > > sign with > > each possible conson

Precomposed Unicode layouts and permutations (was:Re: hello + UTF-8

2005-08-07 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 07/08/2005, at 5:44 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: Undoubtedly she should be using a precomposed layout, and i really wonder if the charmap _is_ a precomposed layout, since the position of diacritics varies in different apps, and that tends to be an artifact of decomposed input, where the charact

Re: hello + UTF-8

2005-08-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 04:16:28PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote: > >I visited http://www.linux-india.org/ with two different browsers. > >The page is broken, but the importand thing can be seen: > >The third line on the right has one of the vovel signs in question > >applied, too. > >I looked the