At 14:39 1/26/2002, Geoffrey Waigh wrote:
>If the program crashes it is a bug. If the OS cannot cope with a font
>it should say so. Unless someone is going to argue it is a design feature
>where the OS detects a licensing violation and commits suicide.
The Mangal font contains no 8-bit codepage support, only Unicode cmap
entries. Since Windows 9x relies on codepage support for text encoding,
such fonts can cause problems.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit,
das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich
nicht in ihm gemeint erkannte.
... every image of the past that is not recognized by the
present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear
irretrievably.
Walter Benjamin
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