Re: Delimiters <-- Re: IIT (Madras) point of view

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


> > That you are talking about what various operating systems do or

don't do

> > when you admit to not knowing how these things work, and that I
> > therefore have a low level of confidence in the reliability of such
> > statements.
>
> I am not talking about operating systems. I am talking about the 223
> (IIRC) slots in a Mac font, which in the standard array include

several

> diacritics not found in the analogous, slightly smaller, Windows font

--

> but do not include edh and thorn.

You are speaking about things of which you are not adequately
knowledgeable to be speaking. Mac fonts do not have 223 "slots". They
have one or more cmaps, and on any Mac produced for many years those
cmaps are capable of supporting tens of thousands of characters. (65536,
to be exact.) Same as Windows.

> > When you go making statements like
> >
> > > Anyway Mac fonts have a few more slots (8?) than Windows fonts.
> >
> > you are making statements about how these things work when you

haven't a

>
> Not about how they work. About what's in them.

When you say "Mac fonts have..." you are making a blanket statement, and
that blanket statement is, simply, wrong.

> Then howcome when I made fonts on the Mac, a few of the characters had
> to be discarded to make them into Windows fonts?

I don't know. You were using lousy tools?

> > These are supported in the Windows core fonts (Arial, Courier New,

Times

> > New Roman and Tahoma), as well as several other fonts included with
> > Windows (Palatino Linotype, Trebuchet MS, Verdana...)
>
> Perhaps you are referring to recent versions of Windows with Unicode.

Depends on your definition of "recent". Would you consider Windows 95 a
recent version?



Peter Constable