Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 07:30:45 EST

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    On 02/12/2003 18:41, Christopher John Fynn wrote:

    >"Patrick Andries" <Patrick.Andries@xcential.com>
    >
    >
    >
    >>Well, some fonts would be better than none
    >>(and they have to be made so that
    >>the Unicode standard be printed).
    >>
    >>
    In fact they have to be made before the character can even be proposed.

    >
    >In the case of complex scripts, a font sufficient to print a code chart is
    >nowhere near adequate to render that script properly.
    >
    >
    An adequate proposal for a complex script should surely include a proper
    account of the script behaviour and sample glyphs of presentation forms.
    And so such a proposal should include all that is needed for a
    developer, and is available some time before the new script is
    officially standardised.

    >If you code chart type glyphs are enough for you then on Windows if you have MS
    >Office there is always Arial Unicode.
    >
    >
    Except that this font is stuck at Unicode 2.something. Or is there any
    sign of an update?

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    Peter Kirk
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