Re: Problem with Arial Unicode MS font for BOLD/ITALICS in PDF

[Michael Everson]

At 14:44 -0700 2003-06-20, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

 > I think that Italic is to avoid for most Asian scripts, as readers are not
 used to it.
For body text, in documents or on web pages, I would agree.
A wide range of oblique styles have been used in many Indian scripts 
for a very long time now. Generally they are used as display type, in 
headlines, for instance.
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