Re: Unicode on mobile devices

From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 17:12:07 CDT

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    On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Kai Hendry <hendry@aplixcorp.com> wrote:
    > Apologies for the potential repost. I don't think my original got through.
    >
    > After a call today with an Opera employee, he informed me rightly that
    > many handset manufacturers are unprepared for the license cost of
    > fonts with a wide Unicode glyph coverage.
    > This led me to fear a "region locking" scenario of mobile devices. Any comments?

    There's quite a few free fonts out there; you can get pretty decent
    fonts from SIL and others that cover LGC and CJK pretty well, and I
    believe you can get passable coverage for free of almost all of
    Unicode.



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