I must be misunderstanding the question. If I want different segments of a
document to be in different fonts, I select the text, go to the font menu,
and pick the fonts I want. I don't need to know the language of the text to
do that.
Yes, in very specific cases the font might be tuned to have a different
display (French vs Polish) for different languages, but that is not the
principal mechanism for display. In practical termsn, I would be more likely
to simply pick a font that is tuned for Polish for the text that I wanted
displayed in that way.
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary P. Grosso" <gpg@arbortext.com>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: FW: A product compatibility question
> I appreciate these responses. I am certainly not an expert in Han
> unification. I am trying to reconcile what John says with what
> appears at http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html. For example,
> there appear to be stylistic differences, at least, in a character
> such as:
> http://charts.unicode.org/unihan/unihan.acgi$0x4E9E
> between fonts designed for different languages.
>
> Regarding Asmus' contribution, I would assume that such products use
> different fonts depending on what "block" the character is from, as
> shown, e.g., at:
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/3.0-Update/Blocks-3.txt
>
> Since I don't see any definition at the level of Traditional Chinese
> versus Simplified Chinese in the blocks, I don't see how an
> application could properly switch fonts in this case. Perhaps
> the answer is "it doesn't need to" but I'll admit to being a bit
> skeptical on that point. I'm open to being convinced.
>
> At 03:21 PM 10/9/01 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>
> >Gary P. Grosso wrote:
> >
> >>Because of Unicode's Han unification, I was under the impression that
> >>to get both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese to really look
> >>right would require using different fonts for each.
> >
> >
> >Han unification does *not* unify traditional and simplified
> >characters.
>
> At 01:02 PM 10/9/01 -0700, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>
> >At 01:43 PM 10/9/01 -0400, Gary P. Grosso wrote:
> >>Because of Unicode's Han unification, I was under the impression that
> >>to get both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese to really look
> >>right would require using different fonts for each. To have different
> >>fonts for the same characters in a single document would seem to
> >>require use and recognition of language tagging.
> >>
> >>Am I just showing my ignorance on this subject?
> >
> >
> >If you want to show English and Chinese in the same document, unless (or
> >even) if the English is strictly for Chinese audiences, you will most
> >likely want to use different fonts. Standard office automation suppliers
> >like Microsoft have behind the scenes support for that, so that many
users
> >don't even know that they are actually using a different font for Latin
> >than Han.
> >
> >>>We are working with a client who is a publisher of Chinese medical
> >>>textbooks.
> >>>Our goal is to set up a configuration that will allow layout of
English,
> >>>
> >>>Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese characters in a single
> >>>document.
> >
> >
>
> ---
> Gary Grosso
> ggrosso@arbortext.com
> Arbortext, Inc.
> Ann Arbor, MI, USA
>
>
>
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