At 11:55 -0700 2002-03-20, John H. Jenkins wrote: >On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 11:00 AM, Curtis Clark wrote: > >>Maybe I'm missing something here. My browsers don't display ASCII >>in fraktur, because I have not selected a fraktur font as either >>the system font or the default browser font. It seems to me that an >>average Japanese user would have only Japanese fonts installed, so >>that all CJK would appear in Japanese style no matter what its >>source. Why is there an issue? >> > >There's an issue because Ohta-san (and a few others) hate Unicode >with a passion. This is an old argument which has been made by a >number of Japanese for years, insulted that a bunch of American >engineers presume to design a system to display Japanese and >unifying it with Chinese.
Doesn't he know about the IRG? -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
