Re: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 12:29:07 EST

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    At 08:11 -0800 2003-12-03, Patrick Andries wrote:
    >----- Message d'origine -----
    >De: "John Jenkins" <jenkins@apple.com>
    >
    >> Noting, BTW, that localizing the LR font for each of the scripts for
    >> which the OS itself is localized is (a) very expensive,
    >
    >I'm not so sure this cannot be automated (Python + Fontlab) and the cost be
    >brought really down.

    What, FontLab is supposed to magically find the text outline glyphs
    in the font and delete them and replace them by equivalent French
    translations, spacing, abbreviating, and centring them appropriately
    and accurately?

    I find that hard to credit.

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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