ELL: Fonts

[Peter Constable]

On 09/23/2001 08:10:25 AM Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:

>Incidently, I personally think that characters have properties other than
>their glyph, e.g., sort order. I do OS work, the UniCadettes do printers.

That's not the case. The developers of the Unicode standard try to take
into consideration all aspects of software implementation, and Unicode
specifies a number of properties for every character in addition to a
representative glyph. Unicode and UniCadettes do much more than just
printers.



- Peter


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Peter Constable

Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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