RE: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

[Jungshik Shin]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

> Compared to the memory requirements for video, sound, and for data
> caching on servers, the memory requirements for Unicode per se
> tend to be down in the noise -- with the exception of those big
> CJK fonts.

 Well, CJK don't always go together in information processing
and that's one of myths to be dispelled in I18N community.  Korean
fonts need not be huge and wasn't so in good(?) old days of 8bit Apple
II,'pseudo-16bit' MS-DOS and Korean incarnation of MacOS System 6 in
late 80's (and even in X11, we have used zero-width/non-advancing glyphs
for Hangul vowels/consonants to compose glyphs for Hangul syllables the
on-the-fly). That's still the case if 'smart font' rendering support
can be made use of for Korean script rendering as well as for rendering
Indic and Thai/Lao scripts and Latin with diacritics.

  Jungshik Shin