RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 06:57:01 EST

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    At 03:39 -0800 2003-12-03, John Hudson wrote:
    >At 02:53 AM 12/3/2003, Michael Everson wrote:
    >
    >>>Such a font seems easy to create automatically by using the basic
    >>>glyphs of a base font containing the ASCII letters and digits, and
    >>>a source text file giving the name and range of Unicode code point
    >>>blocks, as well as a representative character or string.
    >>
    >>You don't know much about drawing fonts, evidently.
    >
    >To be fair to Philippe, what he suggests isn't too far beyond what
    >is currently possible with the latest generation of
    >Python-scriptable font tools.

    If you say so. I find that I cannot imagine how I would have drawn
    the glyphs by some automated process.

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


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