Arcane Jill scripsit: > 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.
The Apple's (or in fact Michael Everson's) Last Resort font, though, doesn't provide even bare legibility: all the characters in a given script look alike! The most it tells you is what script the characters are in, so that you have some clue about what font to install to provide legibility. -- H)Bïggledy-pïggledy / XML programmers John Cowan Try to escape those / I-eighteen-N woes; http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Incontrovertibly / What we need more of is http://www.reutershealth.com Unicode weenies and / Fran)Bïois Yergeaus. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
