Re: A single font can display ANY alphabet, pictograph, or rune

Carsten Becker wrote:

> Um ... how would you type this in Tinker(toy)font:
>
>      /
>      |
>      |
>  _   |
> / \  |
>   /  |
>  / __|__
>  \/  |  \
>   \  \__/
>
> It's the letter for /ka/ in one of my alphabets. And worse,
> this script uses diacritics.
>
> I haven't succeeded with this. Maybe it's just me not having
> yet completely understood the way the font is made.
Well, I'm not sure if Tinker Toy can do it, but in Jean-François Colson's
TinkerFont is is easy: U0uWI0FVXJ0x0QcdefghxiJ0xz0IY
JFC TinkerFont can handle *approximations* for quite complex scripts, e.g.
Tamil "ka":
iWJ0wz0efgtwz0twY0efghitw0tw0w0HY0i

Cheers,
-- Yitzik