"Peter Constable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From: D. Starner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 5:16 PM > > [David replied to me off-list, but as there's nothing particularly > private or controversial, I'm taking the liberty to respond on list, as > it seems relevant for the thread.]
My fault. > > * A comparable discussion could appear involving Fraktur and Latin > characters > > and Chao and Chang. > > I agree, but only somewhat. I think those situations are probably not as > representative of the casual-, non-specialist-user scenario, and that in > that case Sally and Latisha are probably more likely to be paying close > attention to the fonts being used. Even for the non-specialist > situation, in a Fraktur/Antigua case (the Chao vs Chang is definitely > out at least for *non-Asian* non-specialists), Sally is telling Latisha, > "Make sure it shows up with those dark, old-English-looking characters", That was the point of Chao vs. Chang. Surely there's some group of students that might need to display Fraktur characters in a school report on writing who aren't readily familiar with the normal Latin script. > > * Sally probably won't have a Phoenician font, so this fails > > no matter what Unicode decides. > > Well, if Phoenician is to be encoded in the 05xx block, you're right. If > it's encoded separately and platform or word-processor vendors bundle > fonts that provide coverage for various ranges of Unicode, then she very > well may have a Phoenician font. I'm not familar with fonts for most of the Plane 1 characters, except for Code2001. I imagine there are commerical fonts for many Plane 1 scripts, but I doubt they'll show in Windows or MacOS in the near future. > > * If they did use a Phoencian font, they could still be surprised > mid-presentation > > when they discover the school's computers don't have a Phoenician font > installed. > > Certainly true; but that is an independent cause that could just as well > be used to argue for not encoding any new script. You might as well say > because the school's computer didn't have Arabic fonts there was no > reason to encode Arabic. So, I think it's not a relevant > counter-argument. The school's computer quite possibly doesn't have Arabic, and that it is a good reason not to encode Arabic _for Sally and Latisha's sake._ -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
