Re: Devanagari enthousiasm!

From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 15:07:38 EST


At 11:03 -0800 2002-06-03, John Hudson wrote:

> >No, a Unicode font does not need to contain Latin letters.

And Michael Everson responded:

> A valid ISO/IEC 10646 subset must contain ASCII.

But a font is not a ISO/IEC 10646 subset! By definition, it contains glyph
codes, not character codes. They are in two different worlds.

So it's still true that a font compatible with Unicode need not contain
Latin letters.

        Rick



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