> From: Peter T. Daniels [mailto:grammatim@...]


> At a guess, I'd say you're talking about Unicode, rather than about

the

> standard Windows font with fewer than 255 characters?

For the record, the Windows core fonts that ship with Windows XP support
1,420 characters.

> Does this, BTW, mean that Unicode isn't useful for typing Hungarian
> without creating new characters from separate components? Are ordinary
> computer-users in Budapest supposed to be able to do that?

Ordinary computer users -- at least for Windows -- simply identify that
their language is Hungarian and start typing. Ditto for speakers of the
other 90+ languages supported by Windows.


Peter Constable