From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <263dd5418b8511aa78f2676b6cf41f8a@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Thai Chicken From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <20040224150553.1dbff498.martin@parvat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-jtzewwwmvgmybfzikdresytsbk" Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:43:37 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f38525b4-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-jtzewwwmvgmybfzikdresytsbk Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit a font is just a textual list of subfont files, and any/all could include references to subfonts supporting unicode. quite a few do. i'm not sure why some do and some don't (in other words, i don't know what cost they are trying to reduce). --upas-jtzewwwmvgmybfzikdresytsbk Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by lavoro; Tue Feb 24 09:40:04 GMT 2004 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 6E6CE19AA2; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:39:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 686C119DEB; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:39:15 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id AC88919DED; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:38:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 4529B19AA2 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:38:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from [212.227.126.155] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AvZ1d-0001ew-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:38:49 +0100 Received: from [203.101.50.171] (helo=agni) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AvZ1c-0007SR-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:38:49 +0100 From: Martin C.Atkins To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Thai Chicken Message-Id: <20040224150553.1dbff498.martin@parvat.com> In-Reply-To: <61c1795ccdc6a56ed9d2287088ba4980@plan9.ucalgary.ca> References: <20040224101119.0136e11b.martin@parvat.com> <61c1795ccdc6a56ed9d2287088ba4980@plan9.ucalgary.ca> Organization: Parvat Infotech (Private) Limited X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:113a684b1fe18b05bb432fb0fae7a311 Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:05:53 +0530 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on psuvax1.cse.psu.edu X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Level: On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:57:48 -0700 andrey mirtchovski wrote: >... > > "if the glyph isn't found substitute the 0x0 glyph (null glyph) for it" > Yes, I know that! The point is that the 0x0 glyph doesn't display Thai (or anything else, for that matter)! Surely it would be better if every font contained a full Unicode set (without any bloat/duplication)? Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin@parvat.com Parvat Infotech Private Limited http://www.parvat.com{/,/martin} --upas-jtzewwwmvgmybfzikdresytsbk--