Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 12:22:16 EST

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    De: "John Jenkins" <jenkins@apple.com>

    >
    > On Dec 2, 2003, at 7:35 PM, Patrick Andries wrote:
    >
    > > Well, some fonts would be better than none (and they have to be made
    > > so that
    > > the Unicode standard be printed).
    > >
    >
    > The Unicode standard doesn't require Unicode to be printed. A lot of
    > the fonts used to print the book are Windows symbols fonts, with the
    > code chart-generating code automatically remapping them as needed.

    I didn't mean to imply this, but I believe this indexing is a minor effort
    when compared to the font drawing aspect and those fonts, once remapped and
    even as unpolished or unhinted as they could be, would really be useful to
    users as fallback (or last resort) resources. I believe this could be easy
    for scripts that need no contextual processing. A nice added value.

    I also agree that having more of the (western if I may be Eurocentric) music
    symbols, maths symbols and even parts of braces like 23AB in standard fonts
    would be a real service to users.

    P. A.



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