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Re: Russian, anyone?

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 16, 2003, 6:08
From: "Tristan McLeay" <zsau@...>

> > So we got English, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish and Russian for official
languges
> > now? > > English is official? When did that happen? I rather liked it being > defacto...
I thought they were ALL de facto... ;) But I haven't been following that thread much.
> > (I think Russian looks cool with Comic Sans MS font, which I use for > > e-mails, since it imitates handwriting.) > > On the other hand, I try to kill people who use Comic Sans. It got rather > more popular that it deserves and I grew to hate it.
It's especially annoying in chatrooms when it's pink. My favorite Cyrillic font is Palatino Linotype (which comes with XP) and I really LOVE its Greek letters. On the side -- for Hebrew I use David and for Arabic I like Traditional Arabic.