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From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 06:31:20 EDT

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At 11:34 +0200 2002-07-08, Stefan Persson wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John H. Jenkins" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 12:56 AM
>Subject: Re:_How_do_I_encode_HTML_documents_in_old_languages_=C5��uch as 17th
>century Swedi��h in Unicode?
>
>
>> On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 11:10 AM, Stefan Persson wrote:
>>
>> > There is a big problem in the current Unicode ��tandard, ��ince
>> > Fraktur letters aren't ��upported in any ��uitable manner.
>>
>> Aargh! Medial long-s! Run away! Run away! :-)
>
>Why ��hould I not u��e old characters that already were out-of-u��e centuries
>ago? ;-)

Becaufe it piffes people off? :-)

-- 
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

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