Re: More Unicode Myths?

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 10:45:08 EST


Those are good...except for

> Or: "One font can handle all of Unicode"

should be: "I need a single font with all Unicode characters so that I can
handle all of Unicode"

Mark
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From: <Martin_Hosken@sil.org>
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Subject: Re: More Unicode Myths?

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>
>
> Dear Mark,
>
> >I am going to be updating my slides on "Unicode Myths" for a presentation
> in April. If anyone has any additional myths (common misinformation about
> Unicode), I'd appreciate suggestions.
>
> How about: Unicode messed up the encoding of <insert favourite, probably
> indic, script here> because I don't see how to implement it with current
> technology.
> Or: "I don't need to know what language of the text I am processing is.
One
> algorithm fits all"
>
> Or: "One font can handle all of Unicode"
>
> Or: "The Unicode Consortium is a monolithic top down organisation that
> doesn't need my help/input"
>
> I don't know how many of these are common and are worth including.
>
> Martin Hosken
>
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