On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 07:27 AM, Adam Twardoch wrote:
> Oh, thank you! I needed that figure to make a point why you cannot make a > single TrueType font covering all of the Unicode range. I knew it was way > more than 65,536, but it's better to quote a precise figure :) > Ah, but the figure Ken give you isn't enough, anyway for two reasons: 1) Some scripts (e.g., south Asian scripts) will require additional glyphs for proper display. 2) For Han in particular, one shape does not fit all. You'll need multiple locale-specific glyphs for a number of characters. In real life, you can ignore (2) by simply issuing a locale-specific version of a font, but there's no real way to get around (1). ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
