From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 15:09:08 EDT
Elisha Berns scripsit:
> It's odd to think that the old way of using Charset identifiers in fonts
> worked a lot more cleanly for finding fonts matching a language/language
> group. I would think this kind of core issue would be addressed more
> cleanly by the font standard.
Actually it worked by dumb luck (or market forces if you prefer). There
was never any guarantee that because a font was encoded by Latin-1 that
it contained glyphs for all the Latin-1 characters.
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