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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] yet another font package converted to plan9
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Date: Mon,  4 Aug 2003 16:07:33 -0600
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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Joel Salomon wrote:

> regarding http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/fonts/ esp. the
> sample given for 9x18ja
> (http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/fonts/9x18ja.png) - where did
> the text come from? The question mark at the beginning of the line in

the examples are linked to from Markus Kuhn's web page:

	http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/

> Hebrew seems to imply that right-to-left text has been implemented in
> plan9 - which I know it hasn't. Besides the text *is* backwards - those
> words that are intelligible, that is. The sentence itself is gobbledygook
> (at best :-)

there's no right-to-left input in plan9, yes. using this was simpler than
trying to fit the output of 'unocode 0x0-0xffff' in a single screen :)

> Are the phrases in the other languages equally meaningless?
>

the slavic ones are :)

andrey