Re: relation between unicode and font

[Jukka . Korpela]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, sreekant wrote:

> <font face="Tikkana">A B </font> is being shown as some telugu
> characters.

That's basically a browser bug, though some people have seen it
as a method of extending character repertoire. It has absolutely
nothing to do with Unicode. For an explanation of the fallacy, see
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7eflavell/charset/fontface-harmful.html
http://babel.alis.com/web_ml/html/fontface.html

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