Mari chars for Windows? (L á szló Fejes)

[Johanna Laakso]

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Dear All,

 I do not understand why anyone would write to Bill Gates instead of
 writing to the designers of open fonts. There are some Linux
 distributions which are made specially for the Russian speaking
 community (one of them will be used in schools:
 http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/09/14/266177), the
 developers of them are the ones who should be asked to include the
 Mari characters in fonts.

 In fact, knowing Russia, I do not really believe that most of the
 users buy Windows -- they use them illegally instead. However, they
 could use Linux for free.I consider the whole case as pathetic.


 L.



 On 13/02/2008, Klaas Ruppel <klaas.ruppel at kotus.fi> wrote:
 >
 > Denis Sacharnych kirjoitti 12.2.2008 kello 16.26:
 >
 > Mari, Chuvash, Udmurt etc. characters are completely included in the new
 > set of Windows' fonts (at least in the latest version of the operating
 > system, MS Windows Vista).
 >
 > And just that would be the answer of Microsoft, if they ever would bother
to
 > react on the "open letter".
 >
 >
 >  No 'open letters' necessary.
 > Exactly.
 >
 > 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 there willing to work on such outdated thing.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.
 >
 > Best regards,
 > ______________________________________
 > Klaas Ruppel           www.kotus.fi/?l=en&s=1
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 > Tel. +358 9 7315 268   Fax +358 9 7315 355
 >
 >


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