Richard Proctor wrote: > I am sitting at a computer that is operating in native Latin-1 and is > quite happy - there is no likelyhood that UTF* is ever likely to reach > it. > > ... Therefore the only addition characters that could be used, that > will work under UTF8 and Latin-1 and Windows ...
What about people who don't use Latin-1, perhaps because their native language uses Latin-2 or some other character set mutually exclusive with Latin-1? I don't have a Latin-2 ('Central and East European languages') typeface handy, but its manpage includes: 253 171 AB LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CARON 273 187 BB LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CARON "Caron" is sadly missing from my dictionary so I'm not sure what those would look like, but I suspect they wouldn't be great symbols for vector operators. > 171 « May well be used Also I wonder how similar to doubled less-than or greater-than signs guillemets would look. In this font they're fine, but I'm concerned at my abilities to make them sufficiently distinguishable on a whiteboard, and whether publishers will cope with them (compare a recent discussion on 'use Perl' regarding curly quotes and "fi" ligatures appearing in code samples). Smylers