From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 01:45:12 EST
Frank, feel free to take the country names out of my Unicode example
page:
http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode-example.html
Already in UTF-8 for you.
Nice postal page. How come I hadn't heard of it before?
I'll add it to my guidelines page.
tex
Frank da Cruz wrote:
>
> Hi all. In the spirit of "I can eat glass", but more usefully, I took a few
> minutes to convert my international postal addresses page to UTF-8:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/postal.html
>
> and added some Greek and Cyrillic to Appendix II (the table of country
> names). Anybody who would like to send me more names in native script, I'll
> be happy to add them (with credit, of course). Corrections welcome too.
>
> Also, back on the "I can eat glass" page I started a new section near the
> bottom for "quick brown fox..." phrases for different languages, that show
> all the characters (or all the "special" characters) of a language. I have
> only a handful so far, some of them made up, others in actual use (e.g. in
> Sweden, Hungary). These were traditionally used in typewriter instruction,
> and more recently for testing software, fonts, keyboard input methods, etc,
> for suitability to a particular language. Contributions in this area would
> also be most welcome.
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html#quickbrownfox
>
> By the way, the German phrase is mine. I seem to have discovered a German
> word (the name of a town, Óechtringen) that has an acute accent. It's
> listed in the Postleitzahlenbuch:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/misc/oechtringen.jpg
>
> I don't know if it's a mistake or what, but it's definitely a curiosity!
> My initial theory is that maybe it's a contraction for Ober-Echtringen?
>
> - Frank
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