From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 12:38:41 EST
At 12:00 -0500 2003-12-03, Language Analysis Systems, Inc. Unicode
list reader wrote:
> > In short, in any given locale, one should get the symbols of that
>locale, out of the box. (And in my locale, that should include math
>and
> > music symbols).
>
>I question this.
>
>On the one hand, I agree with you. As a musician, it's always
>bugged me that I can't say "Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat
>Major" without either spelling out "-Flat" or using a lowercase b as
>a kludge (at least I can use the pound sign to say "Gershwin's
>Prelude No. 2 in C# Minor").
OS X ships all those in the Apple Symbols font, and they are also in
a number of the Japanese and Korean fonts which ship with the OS.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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