From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I could point out that "Swede" means not only "person from Sweden", > but also "turnip"; therefore, encoding "Swedish" would be embarrassing > and should not be done.
My point was that the connotation of mystical, imaginary things, things not of the real world, is inescapeable. Even *in* The Lord of th Rings, Sam and Boromir are both shown as examples of Hobbits and Men who know little of elves and they approach them with a bit of awe/wonder and skepticism. If Tolkien had this mentioned in his BOOK, its not unreasonable to realize people might be skeptical in the real world. > > In any case, the fact that Tolkien's estate does not enforce the copyright > > There is no (U.S.) copyright in the mere appearance of a font, nor in > a particular bitmap realization of it. The point was brought up by others about how there was no issue since the estate encourages it. Reminds me of how much the trademark holders of the compression in GIF files suddenly turned around and made what was free into something you had to license. And please do not correct me about the differences between the two cases; I know them. I just wanted to mention that assurances of encouragement are not necessarily enough. MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/
