From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 20:27:58 EST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>
To: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
Cc: "Unicode@Unicode.Org" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: 2 déc. 2003 16:44
Subject: RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?
> Michael Everson writes:
> > At 15:14 -0800 2003-12-02, Patrick Andries wrote:
> >
> > > > Actually, if you look at the Last Resort Glyphs (at a large enough
> > >> size) you will see that the block name and range numbers are part of
> > >> the image. See http://developer.apple.com/fonts/LastResortFont/
> > >
> > >I believe the name is in English.
> >
> > That's correct. I tried to get Apple to put all the block names in
> > Irish, of course.... ;-)
>
> Using the official Unicode script name in English is not a problem.
So you say.
> But a OS vendor could as well choose to translate these names in
> localized versions of this font if the OS itself is translated.
Which seems more logical and slighty contradictory with your initial
leniency.
But in any case, you need such good eyes to see it.
My remark was partly ironic (because you can't really read the names
easily), but if the names are intended to be seen it should be localised
like any other text the user should see.
P. A.
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