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Article #32481Re: Apple diacritical marks (was French Font needed
From: Chris Borton
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1988 09:28
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1988 09:28
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In article <1454@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>In article <619@ethz.UUCP> macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener) writes:
><The standard fonts
><all have accented characters included for all germanic, roman and
><celtic languages, including French.
>What about the upside down hat accent that appears in some eastern
>European langs (like in Dvorak the composer)? Pretty annoying for
>Apple to have left these out, especially when cataloging my records...
Apple remained pretty strictly on the side of _western_ european languages.
What I'd like to know is whether that decision was made on economic grounds
(eastern Europe isn't a huge Mac market :-)) or simply narrow-mindedness.
New York, Geneva and Monaco were set quite a while before the laser fonts
came along and had plenty of free character slots (including the robot and
rabbit :-))
-cbb
--
Chris Borton borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp}
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS
"MesS-DOS programmers did it yesterday. Mac programmers do it today.
OS/2 programmers claim they will do it tomorrow. [I don't believe them :-)]"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!borton From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple diacritical marks (was French Font needed Message-ID: <540@uva.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 09:28:31 GMT References: <9214@cup.portal.com> <619@ethz.UUCP> <1454@pur-phy> Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam Lines: 23