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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Fonken, Gael M. [<a href="mailto:foga0301@stcloudstate.edu">foga0301@stcloudstate.edu</a>]</span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">technica-politica<br></span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span>For all
who enjoy technical puzzles mixed in with language policy questions,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span> I'm
still working on getting my university in central Minnesota to offer the heritage
language fonts belonging to our recent immigrants as well as the Native peoples
in our (their) area (which is now ours). It seems that the technical staff
here have never worked with downloaded fonts and are bulking on their promise
to provide these 'extra' fonts that are not a part of the standard Windows
package. Could anyone give me some idea as to <i>how much work</i> we're
asking them to do? We want to use these fonts in the same manner that the
standard font package is used—by selecting and placing a particular alternate
font as a choice located on the task bar menu. They say this would take an
extra "server," but what all does that mean? Is it possible to
integrate 'rare' fonts into a campus wide system… or not?
</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span> We
have a number of translators in our area who would like to use this system (not
to mention our resident language minority students), so it's really not
an exotic thing. But we need to know if those who control the system are
resisting our request for real technical reasons or if they're just not
willing to stretch beyond English. How best to deal with these problems
as they come up? I feel like a little ole' lady talking to an auto
mechanic. I want to trust them…</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>perplexed,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Gael </span></p><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">