Re: CHAT: The EU expands (was Re: THEORY/CHAT: Talmy, Jackendoff and Matchboxes)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 2, 2004, 23:21 |
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On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 05:48:14PM -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
> Also, Maltese-language websites would have to be encoded
> either in Unicode or an obscure ISO Latin encoding, because of some of its
> more exotic letters.
Which means Unicode.
> None of the Windows (can't say about Mac) encodings
> include Maltese or Esperanto, just Western and Central European, Baltic,
> Greek and Cyrillic.
Except that modern Windows versions use Unicode at the core and have
support for the whole repertoire; you just need the right fonts, and
there are plenty of fonts available that cover things like Maltese.
Heck, the Esperanto letters are in Times New Roman these days.
-Mark
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