Re: Euro symbol and XFree
Hi,
At Sun, 21 Oct 2001 17:15:13 +0200,
Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Your analogy is not correct. Latin-9 is meant to be used by everybody
> who is currently using latin-1 and is supposed to supercede it in the
> long time, so if a package has a latin-1 font it probably should have a
> latin-9 font too.
I am against this idea. Because:
(1) The current situation of Latin-1-centrism is not very good.
We should not enlarge this situation, as I wrote in another
mail. (Sorry I cited all messages from Branden accidently...)
(2) In the long time, both of Latin-1 and Latin-9 will die and
be replaced by Unicode.
(3) Non-internationalized evil softwares will use Latin-1 fonts
even you want Latin-9. Thus, as Branden says, it is meaningful
to prepare Latin-1 fonts for compatibility purpose but it is not
in the case of Latin-9. (Though the "compatibility" means the
priviledged and discriminating position of Latin-1 but I am
not radical enough to insist to remove it right now.)
(4) You says that all people (who is currently using latin-1) will
use latin-9. I imagine you want to emphasis the importance
and need of latin-9 but the same thing can be said for all
other fonts. All Japanese people need jisx0208 fonts. All
East European people need Latin-2 and will need Latin-10(?)
for Euro sign. and so on.
---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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