Re: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon May 21 2001 - 16:02:06 EDT


On 04/18/2001 09:49:40 AM John Jenkins wrote:

>At the same time, none of the people involved in defining TrueType --
>Adobe, Apple, and Microsoft -- believe that it is really a good idea to
>have a single font covering all of Unicode. Microsoft provides one
>because there has been a strong push from people demanding it, but it
>still isn't a good idea.

Clarification: MS provides one that covers only Unicode 2.1; it does not
cover characters added in 3.0 or later.

- Peter

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