From: jcowan@reutershealth.com
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 13:45:52 EST
Arcane Jill scripsit:
> You see, I'm not talking about "good" fonts, just "basic" fonts. In
> fact, _/any/_ fonts. Essentially, I expect every character to display,
> albeit poorly, but to display. I expect the operating system to provide
> a fallback font for every character. The Macintosh does exactly this.
> Windows doesn't. That's all.
The Apple's (or in fact Michael Everson's) Last Resort font, though,
doesn't provide even bare legibility: all the characters in a given
script look alike! The most it tells you is what script the characters
are in, so that you have some clue about what font to install to provide
legibility.
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