Re: URDU fonts

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 02:07:29 EST


From: "Edward Cherlin" <edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu>

> If your Urdu fonts are encoded according to a suitable Windows code
> page,

Actually, there is no Windows code page that covers Urdu (unfortunately).
There are over a dozen characters missing in 1256, for example. And thats
the best of the lot!

This technically makes such languages "Unicode-only."

michka

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