Around 9 o'clock on Jul 6, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> Why is 0060 necessary for Dutch (NL) but not 00a4 ?
> I can just about understand 0040, since an email address *might*
> be more important than the price of something, but a back quote ?
> Please require the Euro sign in euroland, unless you really are
> going to drop *all* punctuation including the dollar and the "at"
> in email addresses.
I got the European coverage information from
http://www.everytype.com/alphabets
I don't know why all of the latin languages include @ and ', it's
probably just a mistake; they're easily removed.
The reason I haven't included the Euro is that this would disable the use
of any Latin-1 fonts. Now, one could easily argue that this would be a
feature, but until I've got a better PCF story, I'm not really interested
in eliminating these fonts from consideration.
> I'm also uncomfortable about dropping requirements for numerals;
> they are more like letters than punctuation.
The question is whether you'd want to skip a font just because it didn't
support the Basic Latin digits. Applications that I'm writing now (Pango,
Mozilla and Tcl/Tk) will failover to another font for missing glyphs.
If you think the language matching should require numerals, I'll need to
know which language use the Basic Latin digits and which have alternate
glyphs.
I will note that my current Arabic table is missing the Arabic numerals,
that seems wrong to me.
Of more immediate concern is getting at least some coverage for the
missing languages; even a small number of glyphs for each one would help a
lot.
Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab
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