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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG vs Unicode Character Use Issue
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 07:50:35 -0800
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On or about 06:42 03/01/04 a carrier pigeon from Mike Fox delivered:


>Further, and more to the point, when I corresponded with several people on
>the Internet using the character letters, their computers interpreted the
>letters according to the fonts they had installed. There doesn't seem to be

It is less the fonts themselves than it is the character encoding
in use by the computer. The default encoding for Windows (at least for the
W9x series) wasn't even ISO-Latin-1 (Western Europe&US).

>a clear cut way of using these infrequently used (outside of the nation
>concerned) letters. It seems inevitable that confusing misspellings will
>occur.

For over a year now, the ACM "Ada Letters" has been nearly
unreadable. It seems the proofreading is being done on a system compatible
with the authors' systems, but the actual printer is configured for a
different encoding -- with the result that equations and special characters
are totally garbaged.


>
>
>Ideas? Thoughts?

Live long enough to see every computer in the world convert to
16-bit Unicode, AND for every application to be re-coded to be Unicode aware...

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