Re: ANNOUNCE: fribidi-0.1.12

2000-05-21 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
EM>> Unicode and ISO-8859-8 are "competing" standards, so I wouldn't expect EM>> Unicode to include 8859-8... Er? So what that 8859-8.txt file on my Unicode CD really is? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +

Re: ANNOUNCE: fribidi-0.1.12

2000-05-21 Thread Eli Marmor
> On my Unicode CD, there's no LRM and RLM in 8859-8. But that was 2.0 CD, > maybe there were changes since then... Unicode and ISO-8859-8 are "competing" standards, so I wouldn't expect Unicode to include 8859-8... -- Eli Marmor

Re: ANNOUNCE: fribidi-0.1.12

2000-05-21 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
ST>> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/1255.htm ST>> ST>> It's not for iso8859-8, which I don't think has LRM and RLM, but On my Unicode CD, there's no LRM and RLM in 8859-8. But that was 2.0 CD, maybe there were changes since then... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be coun

Re: ANNOUNCE: fribidi-0.1.12

2000-05-21 Thread Sivan Toledo
Here is the URL: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/1255.htm It's not for iso8859-8, which I don't think has LRM and RLM, but for Microsoft's hebrew code page, 1255, which is essentially a superset of 8859-8 (I didn't check all the details). Besides LRM and RLM it also includes nikud a

Re: ANNOUNCE: fribidi-0.1.12

2000-05-20 Thread Eli Marmor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In his message, Eli Marmor wrote, > > According to the standards, LRM is 0xFD (and not 0xFE) and RLM is 0xFE > > (and not 0xFF). > > Thanks for the info! You left the ivrix meeting last month before my > talk so I didn't get your input then. Sorry. I had a so importan

Re: ANNOUNCE: fribidi-0.1.12

2000-05-20 Thread dov
In his message, Eli Marmor wrote, > According to the standards, LRM is 0xFD (and not 0xFE) and RLM is 0xFE > (and not 0xFF). Thanks for the info! You left the ivrix meeting last month before my talk so I didn't get your input then. It will be fixed in fribidi-0.1.13 which will make it to my site

Re: ANNOUNCE: fribidi-0.1.12

2000-05-19 Thread Eli Marmor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Added support for the LRM and RLM characters for the iso-8859-8 >converts at unused positions 0xFE and 0xFF . According to the standards, LRM is 0xFD (and not 0xFE) and RLM is 0xFE (and not 0xFF). In addition, it is a bad practice to use 0xFF even for o

ANNOUNCE: fribidi-0.1.12

2000-05-19 Thread dov
I have relased a new version 0.1.12 of fribidi with the following major changes: * Applied a speed patch by Owen Taylor that makes fribidi almost 4 times faster. * Updated the algorithm according to the latest Unicode specification. (Still no explicit overrides though).