Around 14 o'clock on Jul 7, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> For the '@' I agree; but the apostrophe may be very important for > some languages (eg: French, English) I'm still trying to avoid "punctuation", as much as it may be a part of the language. It seems a slippery slope that I'd like to avoid. Note that the glyph I removed wasn't apostrophe (U0027) but grave accent (0060), which is certainly not required for most Latin languages. > 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...) Given that most of the tags I'm using specify only language, it's hard to see adding a particular national currency symbol. I'd like to avoid an explosion of pt and es tags for every country using them. > 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) Cool. That's a pretty strong argument against including either ASCII or Arabic numerals. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
