From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 19:58:31 CDT
António said:
> On 2005.09.21, 03:19, Doug Ewell <dewell@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> >> As Bringhurst say: "Neither typographers nor their tools should labor
> >> under the sad misapprehension that one will ever mention crępes
^^^^^^^^
recte: that no one
> >> flambées or aďoli, no one will have a name like Antonín Dvorák, Sřren
> >> Kierkegaard, Stéphane Mallarmé or Chloë Jones, and no one will live in
> >> Óbidos or Ĺrhus, in Kromeríž or Řster Vrĺ, Pruhonice or Nagykorös,
> >> Dalasýsla, Kirkagaç or Köln." (The elements of typographic style,
> >> version 2.4, page 90)
>
> Is it because I have lived in both Óbidos and Ĺrhus (and been to Köln and
> Nagykorös) that I find this quote, however humurous in its intentions, to
> be deeply unsettling and offensive?
Well, since Doug unfortunately left out a "no" in retyping
what Bringhurst wrote, I could see why you might find this
unsettling.
>
> Apparently "typographers" and even "one" can only exist if they are native
> English speakers.
This is *exactly* the opposite of the point. Bringhurst was
lamenting the commonness of commercial fonts that make no
allowance for diacritics. On the same page:
"Unregenerate, uneducated fonts and keyboards, defiantly
incapable of setting anything beyond the most rudimentary
Anglo-American alphabet, are still not difficult to find."
It should be clear which side of the fence Bringhurst is on
this issue!
--Ken
> I feel… fictional! I want to shout «Hello, we're here —
> we use diacriticals and yet we do exist!» Some internationalization. :-(
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