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  • From: "Thompson, Bill D (London)" <ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>
  • To: "'TDS Development Group'" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Ode to UTF-8
  • Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:08:10 +0100


> The Unicode manual is facinating reading if you have any interest in I18N.


I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm beginning to get a bit worried
about jkl.
When's the last time you had a vacation, jim ?

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James K. Lowden [SMTP:jklowden AT speakeasy.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 4:33 AM
> To: TDS Development Group
> Subject: [freetds] Re: Ode to UTF-8
>
> 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
>
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