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Re: Putting the "World" back in WWW...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gavin Nicol)
Tue Oct 4 10:51:05 1994
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 15:46:30 +0100
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From: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
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For multi-font technology, have a look at plan 9. I faced
a similar design issue when I designed MADO (a windowing system I'm
writing for VSTa). What I decided to do was to have a "map"
which maps ranges of characters from a font onto ranges of unicode codes.
This mapping can be specified at the user, and the system level,
and by taking locales into account, most han unification like
problems become a nuisance rather than a stumbling block.
Unicode isn't perfect, but it's a damned good
start.
