Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- Subject: Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:58:58 -0500
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 02:20 PM, Ondra Cada wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 07:53 , Charles Srstka wrote:
...Really bad PR for Apple...
Oh my God! Is it a joke, or do you really suggest that the terrible
mess up of 8-bit fonts where you never can be sure whether you written
c-caron,
u-ring or y-acute -- since there was really no decent way to know --
is better than the clean, intuitive and simple Unicode?!?
Hell's bells. Next we learn that co-operative multitasking the way of
OS9 was the best thing after sliced bread was invented...
There is no reason that the ability to type characters in the symbol
font should conflict at all with the Unicode encoding format.
But it is very important to have an easy and intuitive way to type
non-standard characters into a text document, and memorizing Unicode
characters and switching your system preferences(!) are *not* easy and
intuitive ways to do this. And having the font snap back to what it was
after you change the font and type something is just bad behavior.
Fortunately, someone claimed that Apple has already stated that they
will fix this. Therefore, I don't really see the point of continuing
this discussion further...
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