Am Sat, 6 Sep 2014 15:52:09 +0300 schrieb ketmar via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>:
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 14:52:50 +0200 > Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > > > In practice it is a solved problem, as you can see in your > > browser when you load a web site with mixed writing systems. > and hurts my eyes. i have a little background in typography, and mixing > different fonts makes my eyes bleed. Japanese and Latin are already so far apart that the font doesn't make much of a difference anymore, so long as it has similar size and hinting options. As for mixing writing systems there are of course dozens of use cases. Presenting an English website with links to localized versions labeled with each language's name, programs dealing with mathematical/technical symbols can use regular text allowing for easy copy&paste, instead of resorting to bitmaps, e.g. for logical OR or Greek variables. And to make your eyes bleed even more here is a Cyrillic Wikipedia article on Mao Tse-Tung, using traditional and simplified versions of his name in Chinese and the two transliterations to Latin according to Pinyin and Wade-Giles: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мао_Цзэдун > > E.g. Missing symbols are replaced by a square with the > > hexadecimal code point. So the missing symbol can at least be > > identified correctly (and a matching font installed). > this can't help me reading texts. really, i'm not a computer, i don't > remember which unicode number corresponds to which symbol. Yes, but why do you prefer garbled symbols incorrectly mapped to your native encoding or even invalid characters silently removed ? Do you understand that with the symbols displayed as code points you still have all the information even if it doesn't look readable immediately ? It offers you new options: * You can copy and paste the text into an online translator to get an idea of what the text says. * You can enter the code into a tool that tells you which script it is from and then look for a font that contains that script to get an acceptable display. -- Marco
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