<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Denis Sacharnych kirjoitti 12.2.2008 kello 16.26:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Mari, Chuvash, Udmurt etc. characters are completely included in the new</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">set of Windows' fonts (at least in the latest version of the operating</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">system, MS Windows Vista).</div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>And just that would be the answer of Microsoft, if they ever would bother to react on the "open letter".</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> No 'open letters' necessary.</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Exactly.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>As I now understand, the initiators of the letter seem to aim to a pre-Unicode solution. I do not think that there is any font provider out there willing to work on such outdated thing. For pre-Unicode systems you need pre-Unicode techniques. Current fonts, keyboards, drivers and so on will not help. In the case of "Mari, Chuvash, Udmurt etc." private solutions may be the only way out ... if - for what reason ever - you are not switching to modern enviroments like Vista, OS X, Linux etc.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><br style="font-family: Helvetica; "></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Best regards,</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">______________________________________</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Klaas Ruppel </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">www.kotus.fi/?l=en&s=1</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Kotus <a href="http://www.kotus.fi">www.kotus.fi</a></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Focis <a href="http://www.focis.fi">www.focis.fi</a></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Tel. +358 9 7315 268 Fax +358 9 7315 355</span></span></div></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>