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Re: Ode to UTF-8

From: James K. Lowden <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>
To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Ode to UTF-8
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:32:46 -0400

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:18:55 -0400, James K. Lowden
<jklowden AT speakeasy.org> wrote:

> The Devanagari range (0900097F), for example, is
> used to represent Tamil (as in Madras, India).

Sorry to mislead; must have had the smart bit turned off tonight.

Devanagari is used for Hindi.
Tamil (0B800BFF) is used for Tamil.

The funny thing is, what would be the Tamil zero (the value just before
TAMIL DIGIT ONE is marked

0BE6 <reserved>
with a pointer to: 0030 0 digit zero
[our friend ascii]

Discovery of the zero is credited to Indian mathematics. Perhaps that's
part of the story; perhaps I'm just starting a rumor.

See for yourself at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0B80.pdf The
Unicode manual is facinating reading if you have any interest in I18N.

Just for the record. EOT.

--jkl

Re: Ode to UTF-8 , (continued)
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Brian Bruns, 09/01/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, James K . Lowden, 09/01/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Steve Langasek, 09/01/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, ZIGLIO Frediano, 09/02/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Mark J. Lilback, 09/02/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Frediano Ziglio, 09/02/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, James K . Lowden, 09/02/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Brian Bruns, 09/02/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Mark J. Lilback, 09/03/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, James K . Lowden, 09/03/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, James K . Lowden, 09/03/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Frediano Ziglio, 09/04/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Thompson, Bill D (London), 09/04/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, James K. Lowden, 09/04/2002
- Re: Ode to UTF-8, Thompson, Bill D (London), 09/04/2002