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- From: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: Re: Any UNICODE Fonts ?
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 04:33:34 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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- In-reply-to: glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu's message of 26 Dec 1992 20:10:51 GMT
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- In article <1hie8bINNjb7@life.ai.mit.edu> glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams) writes:
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- Glenn Adams Cambridge, Mass.
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- P.S. Unicode 1.1 will have ff, fi, and ffi ligatures due to the ISO10646
- merger. However, I would recommend against using them except for backward
- compatibility with simple text rendering technology.
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- Thank God! Hopefully it will also have fl and ffl. I don't care about the
- philosophy behind the argument. The practical matter is that (a) there is
- no standard for `glyphs' as opposed to `characters', and (b) some operating
- systems make no distinction between glyphs and characters, and (c) some
- operating systems specify glyphs (output) using the same code numbers as
- they do for specifying characters (input). So we need to have an
- unambiguous way of specifying at least the most commonly used ligatures
- if complete chaos is to be averted.
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- Berthold K.P. Horn
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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