RE: Talk about Unicode Myths...

From: Suzanne M. Topping (stopping@bizwonk.com)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 13:55:37 EST


BTW, for those of you who don't know me, this was not a statement of my
own outlook, it's a summary of the outlook of a big group of objectors.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suzanne M. Topping
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:42 PM
> To: Unicode Mailing List
> Subject: RE: Talk about Unicode Myths...
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Curtis Clark [mailto:jcclark@mockfont.com]
>
> > Maybe I'm missing something here. My browsers don't display
> ASCII in
> > fraktur, because I have not selected a fraktur font as either
> > the system
> > font or the default browser font. It seems to me that an
> > average Japanese
> > user would have only Japanese fonts installed, so that all
> > CJK would appear
> > in Japanese style no matter what its source. Why is there an issue?
>
> It's an issue because many people hate Han unification, and
> don't think
> fonts should be the answer. Separate encodings for glyph variations
> should be the answer. Anything else is a cultural slap in the face.
>
> (Simplified answer of course.)
>
>



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