Kaixo! On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 03:33:40AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > I don't know why all of the latin languages include @ and ', it's > probably just a mistake; they're easily removed.
For the '@' I agree; but the apostrophe may be very important for some languages (eg: French, English) > The reason I haven't included the Euro is that this would disable the use > of any Latin-1 fonts. Also, monetary symbols could be taken from another font without too much problem; and they are also quite irrelevant ot language (You can very well put an amount in euros in a Chinese text, and an ammont in dollars in an italian text...) >> 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. I think for latin based languages the numerals should always be there (as well as the basic ascii set). But for non-latin languages, the whoile ascii set (including the numerals) may be missing from the font; so, for those non-latin languages, the presence of the numerals can be skipped. > I will note that my current Arabic table is missing the Arabic numerals, > that seems wrong to me. In fact the practice to use western-arabic digits, eastern-arabic digits, or ascii-style digits vary from country to country; maybe even depending on the context (eg: inside a text using arabic shapes, but a document mostly numeric, like a spreadsheet using ascii-style ones) -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.stben.be/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Italian or Portuguese]
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