Re: Unicode plain text (Was: Line Separator Character)

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Thu May 22 1997 - 13:17:40 EDT


Edward Cherlin said:

>[email protected] (Kenneth Whistler) wrote:
>>>...
>>> I can move this letter to practically any
>>> other platform and it will still be perfectly legible and printable -- no
>>> export or import or conversion or version skew to worry about. I think
>>>a lot
>>> of people would be perfectly happy to do the same in a plain-text Unicode
>>> world using plain-text Unicode terminals and printers, if there were such
>>> things.
>
>The Everson Mono fonts would suit such a product admirably, up to a point.

They will do an even better job if proper font-making utilities for Unicode
support become available.

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