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- From: jhelling@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Hellingman)
- Subject: Re: Any UNICODE Fonts ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.104810.26913@cs.ruu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:48:10 GMT
- References: <1481@eouk8.eoe.co.uk> <9212220823.AA38608@chaos.intercon.com>
- Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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- This font only includes only glyphs for Latin and related scripts (Greek,
- Russian) and Hebrew, to my knowledge. I think it is a bit misleading to call
- it a UNICODE font when it does not have the glyphs for most of the scripts in
- UNICODE. -- various Indic scripts, han, etc. I think it is impossible to speak
- of a UNICODE font for several reasons.
-
- -- unicode does not encode a font, but characters (at least it aims to this)
-
- -- you can't have a font that contains glyphs for all unicode characters in a
- consistent and typographical compatible way, I think, the various scripts
- differ to much for that. I think one of the features of a font is that the
- characters in it are related to each other.
-
- But I think you will have fonts for Greek, Arabic, Sinhala (Although it is not
- yet in UNICODE), chinese, and so on, and text-processors/typesetters that can
- use them and UNICODE.
-
- Jeroen
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