From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 14:02:13 CST
>I can even read Mark
> Davis' signature - that is, it appears correctly, I'd love to know what
> it means!
शिष्यादिच्छेत्पराजयम्
shiSyAdicchetparAjayam
shiSyAt ‘from the student’
icchet ‘one should desire’
parAjayam ‘defeat’
‘A teacher should wish to be defeated by his own student in scholarship’
I got this from Peri Bhaskararao on our recent trip to India. I had said
something reminiscent of this in a talk, and he let me know of this saying --
which I liked -- then sent the details to me later.
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk@qaya.org>
To: "Unicode Mailing List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tue, 2003 Oct 21 12:14
Subject: Re: Klingons and their allies - Beyond 17 planes
> On 18/10/2003 10:53, Peter Kirk wrote:
>
> > On 18/10/2003 08:42, Doug Ewell wrote:
> >
> >> Tom Gewecke <tom at bluesky dot org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> The problems mentioned earlier in this thread disappear if one uses
> >>> correct html/css for websites and uses html mail rather than plain
> >>> text with the Mozilla mail client, which otherwise won't let you
> >>> choose the font for incoming mail.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> For all the criticisms that people love to fling toward Outlook Express,
> >> it does let me choose the font for incoming mail. The e-mail messages I
> >> received in Ewellic were plain text.
> >>
> >> -Doug Ewell
> >> Fullerton, California
> >> http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > There definitely seems to be a bug in Mozilla in this area. See for
> > example http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201695 (still
> > unconfirmed - it seems that Mozilla bug reports in this area don't
> > even get looked at in six months) and
> > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26182 (where they claim
> > the problem was fixed three years ago, but it has reappeared). Maybe
> > there is a fix by setting some user preferences in a special file, but
> > there doesn't seem to be a fix in the UI.
> >
> > I'll file a new bug - done, see
> > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222777. It will be
> > interesting to see what response I get, if any.
> >
> >
> It turns out that my bug is a duplicate of
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91190 and work is in
> progress on fixing it. Meanwhile there is a workaround. UTF-8 plain text
> messages, and web pages, are displayed with the default font for the
> system locale. So change the fonts for your system locale, in my case
> "western", and your plain text UTF-8 messages will show up in that font
> - even with UTF-8 codes outside your system code page. With this
> approach (see comments 34 and 36 to bug 91190) I can even read Mark
> Davis' signature - that is, it appears correctly, I'd love to know what
> it means!
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter@qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
>
>
>
>
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