Recently, Richmond wrote: > If one opens a Unicode font with a font development program what the > user sees are lots and lots of glyphs; what most people don't see are > all sorts of > rules as to how they should behave when the end-user types something > using that > font, possibly also using a text-encoding algorithm built into their > operating system. > > Why should we care? > > Because, while Windows Vista and '7', and Linux works wonderfully with > Unicode > fonts giving those rules cognisance, Mac OS and Windows XP don't . . .
What do you mean "all sorts of rules as to how they should behave"? Kerning pairs? Ligatures? Multi-key characters? Something else? If you're really talking about Mac OS (pre OS X), I wouldn't be surprised. AFAIK, Unicode was only in its infancy when Mac OS was around, and general adoption probably took a while. By then, OS X was coming on the scene, so presumably most/all development efforts were shifted to that OS. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
