Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:11:20 -0500, Peter T. Daniels
> <grammatim@...> wrote:
>
> > Peter Constable wrote:
>
> >> > From: Nicholas Bodley [mailto:nbodley@...]
> >> > Today, standard Mac fonts handle a lot of different languages.
>
> Peter (T.D.), referring to below, I think you used the term "standard
> font"; I'm not backtracking to find out, just now. As to the verb
> "provided", I think that was implicit. (This is unsubstantiated
> recollection, possibly flawed.)
>
> I'm atypically and temporarily engaging in how many picoangels can dance
> on the head of a centipin. (Nanotechnology to the rescue!)
>
> [P. C.]:
> >> Scroll down, and you'll see that the Mac OS includes an input method
> >> for Icelandic. They wouldn't do that if they didn't also provide fonts
> >> that support Icelandic.
> >>
> >> So note, Peter D, fonts provided on the Mac *do* include eth and thorn.
>
> [P. T. D.]
> > "Fonts provided on the Mac"? Is that what I was talking about?
>
> It seems so, yes. Kindly see above.

Every font I bought from Adobe (except Wittenberger Fraktur and, of
course, StoneIPA) has exactly the same inventory of characters.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...