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