> Well, you are far better informed in these matters > than am I, Jonathan (I am simply a well-meaning > amateur) but I do not regard the number of planes > required as a major stumbling factor : I am not > for one second suggesting that a font encoded > in my suggested encoding should have separate > glyphs for distinct languages,
Yes, I realise this; the issue wouldn't be the number of glyphs in fonts, merely the vast number of planes to be defined and documented. > only that the > encoding /itself/ should not conflate (say) > Vietnamese "d" with English "d" just because > they have a similar shape. What about British English "d" versus American English "d"? Would they be distinct? JK -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
