Re: AFII and 10036 glyph registry

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Thu Jun 25 1998 - 14:17:05 EDT

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Asmus Freytag wrote:

> There is a per-glyph fee to offset the costs of registration. A recent
> registration has been the glyph for the EURO on behalf of the European
> Commission.

If that is so, then why not make the AFII registry available without
charge for downloading? Currently, one must pay $250 for a CD-ROM
pig in a poke (English idiom meaning "something you must pay for without
knowing what you are getting", for the non-native-English-speaking
readership).

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