From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Fri Jul 09 2004 - 08:52:22 CDT
Whether it is a matter of "typography" or not depends on what the input text
is. Setting the letters D v o ř á k as "Dvorak" would indeed be bad
typography. Setting the letters D v o r a k as "Dvorak" would be perfect
fine typography.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Everson" <everson@evertype.com>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 02:29
Subject: Re: Looking for transcription or transliteration standards latin-
>arabic
> At 17:43 -0700 2004-07-08, Mark Davis wrote:
> > > Why would anyone want to do that?
> >
> >I tend to be with you on this, that it does little harm to retain
accents.
> >However, most major periodic popular publications have this practice; for
> >example The Economist keeps accents for French, German, Spanish, Italian
> >words and names but discards others (as I recall).
>
> I wouldn't consider that good typography, that's all I'm saying.
> --
> Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
>
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