Re: OT: TECH: Dumb Unicode question
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 21, 2003, 21:08 |
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:34:32PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> 1) Current font tech can't handle more than 65536 glyphs per font anyway.
Eh, that'll change soon enough. Wasn't too long ago that
then-current font tech couldn't handle more than 256 glyphs per font.
> 2) There is nothing to say that fonts have to have one glyph per character.
> It is quite common to have many (contextually assigned) glyphs per character,
> and indeed to have single glyphs for multiple characters.
True enough.
-Mark