--- Christian Biesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:44:07PM +0100, Hubert > Figuiere wrote: > [font preview] > > "The quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog." is > what was used on MacOS X. > > I suppose they use this sentence because it uses all > 26 letters of the > Alphabet.
They do. They're called "pangrams" and they've been used by typographers for many years. Computer font selectors have also been using them for years. Doing a quick Google search for "pangram" will find lots of them for lots of languages. Andrew Dunbar. ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
