Re: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 16:50:18 EST

Next message: Timothy Partridge: "Re: In defense of Plane 14 language tags (long)"

Previous message: Markus Scherer: "Re: Names for UTF-8 with and without BOM - pragmatic"
Maybe in reply to: Thomas Lotze: "ct, fj and blackletter ligatures"
Next in thread: William Overington: "Re: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

On 11/05/2002 03:18:55 AM "William Overington" wrote:

>I am unsure as to
>whether, in formal terms, TrueType is "a file format that supports
Unicode"

Absolutely. Every TrueType font on Windows has always made use of Unicode;
every TrueType font shipped by vendors like Microsoft has conformed to the
Unicode standard. Lots of text has been rendered for years using TrueType
fonts in a Unicode-conformant manner.

- Peter

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Constable

Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
Tel: +1 972 708 7485
E-mail: <peter_constable@sil.org>

Next message: Timothy Partridge: "Re: In defense of Plane 14 language tags (long)"
Previous message: Markus Scherer: "Re: Names for UTF-8 with and without BOM - pragmatic"
Maybe in reply to: Thomas Lotze: "ct, fj and blackletter ligatures"
Next in thread: William Overington: "Re: ct, fj and blackletter ligatures"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Nov 05 2002 - 17:33:16 EST