frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (04/12/91)
I have not been successful in finding anyone here in Iceland who has a copy of the Unicode standard, but I hope somebody with access to the standard can answed the following questions: Is the character "Icelandic Eth" (D with a horizontal stroke) included, and if so, does the lower case letter have a straight or curved stem ? Is the character "Icelandic Thorn" included ? Are the special characters used by Esperanto included ? -frisk
enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) (04/12/91)
In article <3039@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
I have not been successful in finding anyone here in Iceland who
has a copy of the Unicode standard, but I hope somebody with access
to the standard can answed the following questions:
Is the character "Icelandic Eth" (D with a horizontal stroke)
included, and if so, does the lower case letter have a straight
or curved stem ?
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH is found at U+00D0.
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D BAR is found at U+0110.
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AFRICAN D is found at U+0189.
All of the above is a D with a horizontal stroke. They don't look
very different to me.
LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH is found at U+00F0.
LATIN SMALL LETTER D BAR is found at U+0111.
The former has a curved stem, the latter a straight stem.
Is the character "Icelandic Thorn" included ?
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN is found at U+00DE.
LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN is found at U+00FE.
Are the special characters used by Esperanto included ?
There are a few notes about source languages, and LATIN SMALL LETTER U
BREVE (U+016D) has "Esperanto" in such a note. I don't know
Esperanto, so I can't comment on this in general. If you can provide
a list of the "special characters used by Esperanto", I'll look for
them in the draft (Unicode 1.0 Draft Standard Final Review Document) I
kindly received from Asmus Freitag at Microsoft <asmusf@microsoft.com>.
Note: U+00xx is identical to ISO 8859-1, and also includes the ISO
6429 control codes.
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[Erik Naggum] <enag@ifi.uio.no>
Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway <erik@naggum.uu.no>williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams) (04/18/91)
In article <3039@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes: > > Are the special characters used by Esperanto included ? > They seem to be. The h^, j^, u(breve), etc. are all there, with the notation "Esperanto". The standard seems terribly complete, modulo some statements here about poor Vietnamese support. It even includes the special "long" forms of the umlauted o and u found only(?) in Hungarian. For my money, Unicode seems like a much better idea than some of the horrible stateful, variable width, alternatives... Jim Spoken: Jim Williams Domain: williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov Phone: +1 301 286-1131 UUCP: uunet!mimsy!williams USPS: NASA/GSFC, Code 933, Greenbelt, MD 20771 Motto: There is no 'd' in "kluge"! It rhymes with "huge", not "sludge".