Re: Shareable/centralizable dictionary server software? (WAS: Size of your dictionary)

On Apr 3, 2009, at 8◊32 PM, Sai Emrys wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Alex Fink <000024@...> wrote:
>>> ... and has:
>>> - an xsampa, UTF8 romanization, and UTF8 custom font form
>>
>> UTF8?  Who's gonna have their conscript in Unicode?
>
> My presumption (perhaps inaccurate?) is that any custom font will use
> Unicode underlyingly - i.e. you type some string of Unicode and it
> outputs as something fancy in that font.
>
> So this would be just <font face="yourspecialfont">foobár</font>
> really. Simplest way I could think of supporting it.

There's a separate problem here regarding fonts on the internet.
I don't think that's a problem this project can hope to solve.  It'd
likely just have to have a place where one might store images, or
have nothing at all in the way of orthographic support.

-David
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