At 12:07 -0800 2002-06-03, Rick McGowan wrote:
>At 11:03 -0800 2002-06-03, John Hudson wrote:
>
>> >No, a Unicode font does not need to contain Latin letters.
>
>And Michael Everson responded:
>
>> A valid ISO/IEC 10646 subset must contain ASCII.
>
>But a font is not a ISO/IEC 10646 subset! By definition, it contains glyph
>codes, not character codes. They are in two different worlds.
But in public procurement a subset may be specified, in which case
ASCII will be implied. I don't know who made up this rule, by the way.
>So it's still true that a font compatible with Unicode need not contain
>Latin letters.
OK. Caveat emptor.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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