RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?

[Arcane Jill]

You misunderstand me. Whilst I have no objection to paying for ADDED value, I'm talking about what comes built in, out of the box.

Consider the literary equivalent. Suppose I went to a library and borrowed a book, took it home, and attempted to read it (the real world equivalent of viewing a web page). Suppose then, that instead of readable characters, a critical math formula was printed as a series of "unsupported character" glyphs, and that subsequent exploration revealed that the book could only be read if I, the reader (not the publisher), were to pay money to the font designer. I would feel (rightly, I think) aggrieved.

You see, I'm not talking about "good" fonts, just "basic" fonts. In fact, any fonts. Essentially, I expect every character to display, albeit poorly, but to display. I expect the operating system to provide a fallback font for every character. The Macintosh does exactly this. Windows doesn't. That's all.

Jill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Constable [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: MS Windows and Unicode 4.0 ?
>
> Where did the idea come from that added value is a right that does not
> deserve compensation? Good fonts are not cheap! (As Chuck Bigelow once
> said, it's OK to pay type designers; really.)