Re: a website recommendation

From: bhikkhu_pandita
Message: 2546
Date: 2009-02-24

Jim wrote:

> I'd like to recommend the following website for those who do not
already know about it:
>
> Ancient Buddhist Texts
>
> http://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/index.htm

I have checked the site and, yes, a very interesting site. Thanks a lot.

But I have a small criticism to make. Bhikkhu Anandajoti himself says
that the fonts he uses are based on Windows 1252 encoding. Why doesn't
he use the fonts of Unicode encoding? Because the Unicode fonts
available at present cannot cover all necessary diacritics? I can only
wonder.

But it is not a big problem because his fonts are embedded in PDF
files while the browser version can work after installing his fonts.
Anyhow I think it is about time to move to Unicode.


with metta

Ven. Pandita


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