From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2008 - 03:03:54 CDT
Hello,
David Starner schrieb:
> if you're including Chinese, you shouldn't need to worry about
> individual Latin-using languages; just toss in MES-2
> (<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/mes-2-rationale.html>), which
> will cover every major Latin/Greek/Cyrillic using language in the
> world, at the cost of a measly 1000 characters.
IIRC; MES 2 has not succeeded in becoming a standard, or otherwise
being widely recognized. Does anybody know more details?
Another, widely used, collection of pan-European characters is WGL4
<http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/WGL4.htm>. Though not
an international standard, either, it has been established as a
quasi standard, as WGL4 capable fonts are included with every
Windows system sold in Europe.
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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