On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:35:44AM -0800, Asmus Freytag wrote: > Furthermore, there is a small cost of 'carrying a character on the books', > as each character added will incrementally grow the size of support files > that Unicode implementations will need.
They will also end up in fonts that attempt full coverage - and not nessecarily full Unicode coverage, either. A new mathematical character will end up in MES-3 (IIRC) and indirectly on the requirements list of some buyers. Any one trying to make a full mathematical font will probably pull in all the characters from the matematical blocks; after all, how many people can look at a character and say whether it's common, but outside their knowledge, rare, or not used? It will probably end up mathematical requirement lists for fonts and programs - it's so much easier to say all the mathematical characters rather then to try and pick the ones your department may need from the one's they won't. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED], dvdeug/jabber.com (Jabber) Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org When the aliens come, when the deathrays hum, when the bombers bomb, we'll still be freakin' friends. - "Freakin' Friends"
