At 11:55 -0700 2002-03-20, John H. Jenkins wrote:
>On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 11:00 AM, Curtis Clark wrote:
>
>>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?
>>
>
>There's an issue because Ohta-san (and a few others) hate Unicode
>with a passion. This is an old argument which has been made by a
>number of Japanese for years, insulted that a bunch of American
>engineers presume to design a system to display Japanese and
>unifying it with Chinese.
Doesn't he know about the IRG?
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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