From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2006 - 15:24:52 CDT
Andreas Prilop wrote:
>>the character you've used (U+201B) isn't supported at all
>>in the vast majority of fonts.
> U+201B is indeed contained in Microsoft's WGL4.
> So you should be able to see it in many fonts at
> http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/quotes.html
That is not many fonts. That is a handful of fonts made for or by a single software company.
Adam has access to the MyFonts database, so perhaps he can tell us what percentage of the
tens of thousands of commercial fonts in that collection support U+201B. My guess is that
it is less than 1%.
John Hudson
-- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC john@tiro.ca I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. - Samuel Johnson
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