RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 06:39:02 EST

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    At 02:53 AM 12/3/2003, Michael Everson wrote:

    >>Such a font seems easy to create automatically by using the basic
    >>glyphs of a base font containing the ASCII letters and digits, and
    >>a source text file giving the name and range of Unicode code point
    >>blocks, as well as a representative character or string.
    >
    >You don't know much about drawing fonts, evidently.

    To be fair to Philippe, what he suggests isn't too far beyond what is
    currently possible with the latest generation of Python-scriptable font tools.

    John Hudson

    Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
    Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

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    There are texts of theory that resist meaning so powerfully ... that the
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