On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:46:04AM +0200, Kent Karlsson wrote:
> Please don't.  "a^e" is <U+0061, U+0364>.

Which is great, if you're a scholar trying to accurately reproduce an
old text; if you're Joe User, trying to print a document in an Olde
German font, it's far more inconvienant than helpful.

> Still they are definitely different enough to be considered
> othographic differences, not font differences. 

Changing a^e to � is all that would need to be done to make the books
that use a^e look like those of the same timeframe that use �. I'm not
sure where you draw the line between font and orthographic differences,
but this does not require dictionary lookup, and for my purposes is
most easily done by a font change.

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Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom--
A field where a thousand corpses lie. 
  -- Stephen Crane, "War is Kind"

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