Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 1 Dec 1996 14:01:42 +0200 (EET) | From | Mikko Ala-Fossi <> | Subject | Re: Unicode status |
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On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Michael Bruck wrote:
> =>2. > a) The fonts could be designed for 16x8 like in VGA-Adapters. But this > makes it > impossible to display complex characters (think of Chinese). > b) You could use a TrueType font f.e. from Windows Courier with partial > Unicode > support > i) and generate bitmaps from the characters > ii) or generate bitmaps at runtime and allow the user to scale them > to any level > (But this would be a copyright violation unless you use free fonts like > those > from X11 which on the other hand would have to be extended to > support > at least a useful subset of Unicode)
But most of us already have scalable and arbitrary character set capable font manager == Metafont. And there is klingon font too.
I kind of like the idea that viewing a new text file may start Metafont, just like xdvi. It just may take a while.
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