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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 11 September 2007 - Volume 05</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span>
<span id="_user_jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">jonny</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">
jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Technica" 2007.09.10 (04) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" id="mb_0">
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<div><span>Beste
Ron,</span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>you
wrote:</span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#008080">I
word-process all my own LL-L postings in Arial Unicode MS (which most versions
of Windows now come with) and send every LL-L issue out in Arial font
mode. Each person's computer then displays it, if not with the same font,
with whatever closest related font they have loaded on their computers.
Most likely this is Arial (which contains Hebrew characters among others) or
Arial Unicode MS (which contains a lot
more scripts, including East Asian scripts and IPA). So whatever you see
there is what one of <span style="font-weight: bold;">your</span> fonts is doing
for you. In other words, you have it and don't need to envy me.
Hurray!</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font size="2"><font size="3">I don't like the ARIAL-Types so very much because it's
sometimes hard to distinguish the differences between:</font>
</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>_m_ and _rn_
<font size="4"><strong>(_m_ and
_rn_)</strong></font></span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span>The
same with _Il_ and _ll_ <strong>(_Il_ and _ll_).</strong></span></div>
<div><span><strong></strong></span> </div>
<div><span>This
doesn't matter very much if you're reading a well known language, but
dealing with e.g. a foreign dialect it's sometimes heavy
duty.</span></div>
<div><span><strong></strong></span> </div>
<div><span>Normally I
use LUCIDA sans Unicode, but it's not so much better. The clearest fonts for my
opinion are the Courier-types, but I don't know if they're able to show all
these international scripts people using on the list.</span></div>
<div><span><strong></strong></span> </div>
<div align="left">Allerbest!</div>
<div align="left"> </div>
<div align="left">Jonny
Meibohm</div></div>
</div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" color="black" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-ZA">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Technica
<br><br>Thanks, Jonny. I can relate to that.<br><br>The problem with Courier fonts and other monotype fonts is that they do not come with many "special" characters. Lucida (with and without Unicode) and Arial Unicode
</span></font><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-ZA"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> (with and without Unicode) come with far more.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">However, if you configure your mail program you can choose any font you wish as the default, and all or most messages should then be displayed with it, unless you use a program in which the default is overwritten. By the way, Time New Roman does pretty well with many "special" characters also, and, being a serif font, it doesn't come with the legibility problems you're talking about.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br></span></font>
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