At 12:07 -0800 2002-06-03, Rick McGowan wrote: >At 11:03 -0800 2002-06-03, John Hudson wrote: > >> >No, a Unicode font does not need to contain Latin letters. > >And Michael Everson responded: > >> A valid ISO/IEC 10646 subset must contain ASCII. > >But a font is not a ISO/IEC 10646 subset! By definition, it contains glyph >codes, not character codes. They are in two different worlds.
But in public procurement a subset may be specified, in which case ASCII will be implied. I don't know who made up this rule, by the way. >So it's still true that a font compatible with Unicode need not contain >Latin letters. OK. Caveat emptor. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
