Re: glyph selection for Unicode in browsers

From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 14:59:27 EDT

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    Shouldn't that be something more like: pan-script Unicode-based font?

    jameskass@att.net wrote:
    >
    > Tex Texin wrote,
    >
    > > I would like to keep the sense of "Unicode font" as meaning a font which
    > > supports a large number of scripts, rather than meaning one that uses
    > > Unicode for its mapping architecture.
    >
    > "pan-Unicode font"
    >
    > I think Frank da Cruz coined that expression, but am not sure.
    >
    > Since fonts do use Unicode mapping, some kind of modifyer is needed in
    > order to distinguish the big ones from the other kind.
    >
    > Best regards,
    >
    > James Kass.

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