Re: Why Arabic shaping?

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 01:24:22 EDT


>>>ensuring that what he
>>>typed would be saved in exact-mode (what-you-see-is-what-you-store --
WYSIWYS
>>>:-)
>
>Except that this is not what Unicode is about: Unicode is about
>what-you-store-is-what-you-mean.

I agree (to this and pretty much everything else in Philipp's response).
If you want what-you-store-is-what-you-see, use PDF.



- Peter


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