For the record, my grandpa has been a truck-driver and later a grocer for most of his life, and had survived three heart attacks and a kidney surgery when we were discussing Rumsfeld perhaps a year ago.
For the record, my grandpa has been a truck-driver and later a grocer for most of his life, and had survived three heart attacks and a kidney surgery when we were discussing Rumsfeld perhaps a year ago.
Unicode: Am still waiting for my Unicode 5.0 book, in the meanwhile I prepared a few Unicode proposals for consideration by the Unicode Technical Committee and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. The ones publicly available are:
The other two were about changing the bidirectional type of four Unicode Arabic characters (mostly to simplify the way Pango can imeplement these) co-authored with Behdad, and renaming some mis-named Arabic characters. A few more concerning ZWNJ and ZWJ need to wait until I get the book so I can suggest a diff...
Testing Old Persian cuneiform in Firefox:
π²π₯ππΊππΌπ£ππ π’πΌπΆπππ πππΉππ‘πΆπ πΆππ²π’π·π‘πΆππ ππ πππΉππ πΊπΆππ πΏπΆπ π΄πΆππ ππ πππΉππΆπΌπ«π‘πΉπΆππ ππ πππΉπππ‘πΉπ π«π‘πΆππ ππ ππΆπΌπ«π‘πΉππΉπ π
In order to view the text, you need the font Xerxes (TTF, 9KB). This is probably the first publicly available standard font for OldΒ Persian. (The license is GPL with the extra embedding allowed in documents exception.)
Intersting note: Apparently Pango knows how to break the text as can be seen from pasting the text into gedit. The backslash-like characters are Old Persian spaces and thus line breaks are allowed after them, which Pango knows about. But Firefox doesnβt and treats the text as one long word.
Someone just stole my laptop and passport. More to come.
A related bug I filed yesterday is rh196311.
[β¦] a distribution that is not distributed publicly (can you still call it a "distribution"?) [β¦]
Thanks a lot Distrowatch. I thought you are also interested in stable distributions, not only those that make new releases instead of security updates. I thought you may also be interested in distributions that may be sold (god forbid) instead of being available for gratis.
The story is something like this: I saw a blog post by Seth mentioning random thoughts of his about an update applet, catched him on IRC and he pointed me to an email thread about it, I read the thread and reread his posts and thought a little, and finally put two hours on drafting my thoughts on a page on the Fedora wiki.
I was supposed to get more involved with it and possibly help in coding, but couldnβt, mostly because of my Sharif Linux work (which uses Fedora as the main upstream).
And now, I see on Fedora Weekly News that some people are working on icons for it. Nice! Iβm thinking about the impact that a few hours of my time is going to have on peopleβs livesβ¦
Update: Iβm now also aggregated on Fedora People. Another thanks to Seth.
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