Re: Lanna fonts --unicode

Dear Eisel,

Thanks for the information on Unicode Lanna.

I have now inspected the Lanna fonts that I mentioned in a
previous post. They turn out not to be so useful after all.
I assume they must be intended chiefly for those working
with texts in the Lanna language, since the characters for
an initial Pali jh and ii have been left out.

> All the Lanna fonts I know of are non-Unicode --I have seen
> several Lanna fonts produced by Thai academia, and while
> some look good, they will tend to have difficult input,

I can usually get around that by designing a keyboard with
ResEdit that will roughly match the way that I input text in
the Normyn font.

> and zero "interoperability" (in other words: the person you
> send the document to has to have exactly the same font and
> technical setup to read the same document that you
> created...).

I don't imagine there will be that many of us. :)

But wouldn't a PDF file with embedded (non-Unicode) fonts be
readable by anyone?

Best wishes,

Dhammanando