From: Christopher Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Sat Mar 05 2005 - 21:11:35 CST
UList@dfa-mail.com wrote:
> Jon Hanna wrote:
>
>>>I believe Unicode's mandate is to go from:
>>>
>>>POINT A:
>>>Multilingual computing is a complete mess
>>>
>>>to
>>>
>>>POINT B:
>>>Multilingual computing is a completely predictable,
>>>standardized, coherent, unified system.
>>
>>You're wrong.
>>You also have a bad idea of how to create flexible, robust standards that
>>can adapt to changes in need or the authors' understanding of the problems.
> I would love "flexibility" like an "eXtensible Glyph Format".
>
> I'm not fond of "flexibility", like some important functionality getting put
> in the hands of proprietary non-standard smart font behavior.
You could always attempt to use non-proprietary SVG fonts....
- Chris
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