RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 11:16:02 EST

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    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
    Behalf Of Arcane Jill

    >Damn right.

    Your charm is most compelling.

    >In particular, I want all the math characters working

    And what, might I ask, is your understanding of "all the math characters
    working"?

    >and all the musical symbols working.

    Ditto?

    >I want to be able to put these characters on web pages, and know that
    they will be >displayed correctly on my own choice of browser (which is
    not MSIE)..

    Sounds like you need to be talking to another vendor, then.

    >And since I already have a Windows OS (XP Pro), I don't see why I
    should have to buy >another one just to get these extras. I'm hoping it
    would suffice to make just the >FONTS available to the world.

    Where did the idea come from that added value is a right that does not
    deserve compensation? Good fonts are not cheap! (As Chuck Bigelow once
    said, it's OK to pay type designers; really.)

    Peter
     
    Peter Constable
    Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
    Microsoft Windows Division



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