Re: ISO 15924 draft fixes

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 10:31:49 CDT

  • Next message: Doug Ewell: "Re: ISO 15924 draft fixes"

    > I am not very happy about loading the plain-text in browsers. Three
    > of my browsers load it and *all* the French UTF-8 is displayed in
    > Latin 1.

    Michael, you just need to put a BOM at the start of the file. Direct access to
    the plain text file, would be much preferred. The file is small -- there is no
    need to zip it (unlike, say, Unihan!).

    Mark
    __________________________________
    http://www.macchiato.com
    ► शिष्यादिच्छेत्पराजयम् ◄

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
    To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Fri, 2004 May 21 07:10
    Subject: Re: ISO 15924 draft fixes

    > At 10:28 +0200 2004-05-21, Philippe Verdy wrote:
    > >From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
    > >> At 23:21 +0200 2004-05-20, Philippe Verdy wrote:
    > >> >There is still a conflict of "Code" for Mandaean, is it "Mand" or "Mnda"?
    > >>
    > >> Mand.
    > >
    > >OK This is now corrected on the new HTML pages.
    > >But the new "normative" plain-text file now contains... "Mnda" !!!
    >
    > Whoops. It was late, and that change was made by hand.
    >
    > >As a side note to Michael or the other 6 RA members (Ken, and Rick notably),
    I
    > >don't think it's even a good idea to ZIP this reference plain-text file due
    to
    > >its very small size (which smaller than each of the HTML versions of
    > >codelists).
    >
    > Surely it is not harmful.
    >
    > >It could be presented directly under the URL:
    > >http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-code.UTF-8.txt
    > >
    > >The plain text would appear directly in the browser window where it could be
    > >saved as well, without needing any ZIP tool...
    >
    > Everyone has a zip tool.
    >
    > I am not very happy about loading the plain-text in browsers. Three
    > of my browsers load it and *all* the French UTF-8 is displayed in
    > Latin 1.
    >
    > >I hope that the published versions will soon be acceptable for
    > >getting from the current "FDIS" status (Final Draft International
    > >Standarf) to the "Standard" status in ISO. I looked into the TC46
    > >web site and for now ISO 15924 is still not a final standard but a
    > >final draft
    >
    > It *has* been published by ISO, though the TC46 web site doesn't reflect this.
    > --
    > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
    >
    >



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri May 21 2004 - 10:32:29 CDT