On Monday, November 13, 2000, at 03:02 PM, addison@inter-locale.com wrote:
> I should also note that many fonts internally use Unicode to refer to
> characters. I may be being pedantic here, but a "Unicode font" is an
> imprecise term, unless you mean "a font that has every character in
> Unicode in it". As I noted in the paragraph above, smart rendering
> technologies obviate the need for massive "Unicode fonts" in many cases.
>
It should also be pointed out that when Unicode 3.1 comes out next year, it will no longer be possible to cover all of Unicode with a single, non-trivial TrueType font, as TT limits one to just under 65,536 glyphs per font.
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