Kaixo! On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 02:48:27AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>> People choose the fonts in function of their needs. >> Those "problems" are *not* encoding problems; only font problems. >> >> Saying that unicode is not good because the above reasons is nearly as stupid >> as saying unicode is not good for latin based languages as it doesn't >> disambiguate between serif and sans serif styles. > > Every reader of English can read any Roman characters in any reasonable > font. The same is not true of CJK variants, so the comparison doesn't > really work. I'm very dubious about that affirmation. CJK characters unified are actually the same, with only idionsyncrasic differences. A person not able to recognize them won't be able to read a real life text with some fancy fonts (like in ads for example), or a hand written text, which have variations often greater. -- Ki ça vos våye bén, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.srtxg.easynet.be/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975 -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
