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

2005-08-11 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:06:06PM -0400, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > > > If this is something you're serious about, you should bring this up on > > the Unicode list. I haven't been on there for too long but I don't > > recall a proposal like this coming by yet. > > Details about how to join the

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

2005-08-10 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 11/08/2005, at 5:36 AM, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: If this is something you're serious about, you should bring this up on the Unicode list. I haven't been on there for too long but I don't recall a proposal like this coming by yet. Thanks for the suggestion, Mako. At the moment, I'm trying to

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

2005-08-10 Thread Enrico Zini
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:06:06PM -0400, Benj. Mako Hill wrote: > If this is something you're serious about, you should bring this up on > the Unicode list. I haven't been on there for too long but I don't > recall a proposal like this coming by yet. Details about how to join the list? Ciao,

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

2005-08-10 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
> 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. I don't think that's necessarily true. Implementing precomposed and decomposed characters in the same standard introduces two potential encodings for the

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: 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: 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

Re: hello + UTF-8

2005-08-06 Thread Clytie Siddall
Jutta, this is getting really interesting from the UTF-8 point of view. Thankyou for your findings. :) On 07/08/2005, at 7:12 AM, Jutta Wrage wrote: The following order is correct , but the final display on any document has mistakes. Maybe an new discovery; I made, helps here: I visited