Re: not font designers?

From: fantasai (fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net)
Date: Sun Nov 07 2004 - 19:50:17 CST

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    Michael Everson wrote:
    > At 17:10 -0800 2004-11-07, Doug Ewell wrote:
    >
    >> But didn't someone already point out that with OpenType tables, it would
    >> be relatively easy to map "alternate" Phoenician glyphs to the existing
    >> Hebrew code points?
    >
    > You're not helping, Doug.
    >
    > So what? I can map Latin glyphs to Cyrillic code points if I want to
    > transliterate. That's transliteration from one script to another.

    I think the point was that font-encoding difficulties have no bearing on
    the argument, and therefore there's no reason for a font designer to be
    biased one way or another.

    ~fantasai

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