Re: Talk about Unicode Myths...

From: James E. Agenbroad (jage@loc.gov)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 11:30:27 EST


On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, John Cowan wrote:

> John H. Jenkins scripsit:
>
> > (His point is that if you have kanji in an IDN you can't tell whether to
> > draw it the Japanese way or the Chinese way, of course, and since
> > civilization as we know it depends on Japanese people never being
> > confronted with Chinese writing styles, even when being used for Chinese,
> > this obviously means that Unicode is Satan incarnate. Or something like
> > that.)
>
> I am now developing a patch for Mozilla that causes it to display all
> URLs in Fraktur fonts only.
>
> --
> John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> http://www.reutershealth.com
> I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
>
>
                                           Wednesday, March 20, 2002
A Japanese Fraktur font? :-)
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