On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:27:48AM -0800, E. Keown wrote: > Elaine Keown > Seattle > > Hi, > > Supposedly this list has >600 people. > > Just of curiosity, how many of you are NOT font > designers?
I am also not a font designer by trade. > > And are any of your corpus linguists, text database > people, or maybe database designers? I am a bioinformatics programmer and database programmer in a genetics research lab. My original interest in Unicode stemmed from the fact that I studied Chinese in school and spent some years in several countries in Asia, including China and Thailand. Understanding and applying Unicode (especially UTF-8) and W3C (XHTML, XML, CSS, ...) standards has most definitely allowed us to write more powerful and flexible applications in the labs where I work. I am often surprised when I meet other programmers --both those fresh out of school and veterans-- who don't have a clue about Unicode. Unicode and internationalization should be required courses for kids studying Computer Science these days ... I suspect that there is probably a lot of occupational diversity among the members of this list. - Ed Trager Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor
