Re: Unicode 3.0

I wrote:
>>>>>>
Rob writes:
>>>
Since I've been looking for fonts I ancountered the word Unicode. What is
it? How can I get all those neat scripts like Thaana and (especially)
Mongolian vertical script?
<<<

To answer this question in "laymans terms":

Computers store documents as a sequence of numbers,
<<<<<<

Of course, 'puter folks being 'puter folks, this has actually made it HARDER,
not easier to find the fonts you need, especially for free.

IM(NSH)O, the Unicode Organisation should publish "reference" fonts (in a
reasonalby well-known standard, such as TrueType (far more users than Type 1, or
Tex)).  Possibly one font for each "page" or whatever they're called would be
easiest.  Heck, I'd even volunteer to do some of the font-making myself, if I
had the ability.

As to finding the fonts you'd like, I can only suggest going to
http://charts.unicode.org/ and contacting the companies that they used to make
their example images, but be prepared to pay horrendously.

I cannot publicly condone simply ripping off the example images and bodging
together your own TTF, even if it would be strictly for personal use.  It's
tempting, though, isn't it...?





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