Asmus Freytag wrote:
The typographers may not like that they won't be given the time to
allow them to organically grow a design, but fonts are appearing and
are using dubious encodings - thus the need for Unicode to act quickly
- and decisively.
This is perhaps one of the more annoying aspects of the recent "urgently
needed, drop everything" approach to encoding currency symbols.
A nation decides to create a new currency symbol, OK, fine. It starts
showing up in hand-lettered signs and ledgers, good enough. No crisis
yet. But as soon as someone cranks out a Latin-1 font with the new glyph
replacing a little-used, but real, character such as U+00A8 DIAERESIS,
and a keyboard layout that makes it easy for a user to type the new
font-hacked symbol, then it becomes "urgent" for Unicode to encode the
symbol and stop the spread of code-point abuse. I believe the Turks
learned well from the Indians on this one.
--
Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell
