longs

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 06:31:20 EDT


At 11:34 +0200 2002-07-08, Stefan Persson wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John H. Jenkins" <jenkins@apple.com>
>To: <unicode@unicode.org>
>Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 12:56 AM
>Subject: Re:_How_do_I_encode_HTML_documents_in_old_languages_=C5¬øuch as 17th
>century Swedi‰øh in Unicode?
>
>
>> On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 11:10 AM, Stefan Persson wrote:
>>
>> > There is a big problem in the current Unicode ‰øtandard, ‰øince
>> > Fraktur letters aren't ‰øupported in any ‰øuitable manner.
>>
>> Aargh! Medial long-s! Run away! Run away! :-)
>
>Why ‰øhould I not u‰øe old characters that already were out-of-u‰øe centuries
>ago? ;-)

Becaufe it piffes people off? :-)

-- 
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