RE: About that alphabetician...

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 10:18:26 EDT

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    At 10:11 -0400 2003-09-25, Hart, Edwin F. wrote:

    >It is always a challenge to describe technology in terms that the lay person
    >can understand.
    >
    >I like to say, "Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 describe a single standard for
    >representing the world's characters in computers as a series of numbers
    >(zeros and ones)."

    Indeed. But the layman knows what a font is, and an alphabet.
    "Characters" has to come in the sentence after. ;-) 

    -- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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