I don't want to discuss further this topic because I have received flamage
accusations. I was reading that link you send however it is a bit complex for
the non-coder / non-programmer.
Have a good weekend.
--- On Sun, 2/11/08, Doug Ewell <doug(_at_)ewellic(_dot_)org> wrote:
From: Doug Ewell <doug(_at_)ewellic(_dot_)org>
Subject: Re: Unicode.org Software Internationalisation Standards
&Specifications
To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Cc: linuxalinux(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk
Date: Sunday, 2 November, 2008, 4:37 PM
My last attempt to get through before PLONK.
"linuxa linux" <linuxalinux at yahoo dot co
dot uk> wrote:
"Unicode makes it possible to put tens of
thousands of different characters on a .....a plain-text
document"
I refer to .txt files, are you also suggesting that
you can put save a .txt file on the computer that has
unicode 0915 glyph shape?
No plain-text file, anywhere, in any language, in any
character encoding, specifies the glyph shape. That is
outside the domain of plain text.
This e-mail, which is written in plain text, does not
specify anything about the shapes of the letters, so even
though I see it in Lucida Sans Unicode, 10 point, you might
see it rendered entirely differently. You might see it in a
serif font, or cursive, or in bold block capitals. If you
were blind, you might not see it at all; you might hear it
read to you by a screen reader.
If you want the letter between J and L to be represented
with a specific glyph, you have two choices:
1. Use U+004B or U+006B, the correct CHARACTER, but
specify a particular font that renders that character as if
it were U+0915.
2. Use U+0915 directly, which destroys searching and
sorting, but which will usually be rendered the way you want
(or as a box).
The right thing to do, before carrying on this crusade
against Unicode, would be to read and learn about the
difference between "characters" and
"glyphs." See
http://unicode.org/reports/tr17/#CharactersVsGlyphs. It is
much easier to criticize than learn, however, so I doubt you
will do this.
--
Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN
#14
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