Peter Constable wrote:

>
> > 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.

Then they must have made some improvements in recent years.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...