On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:00:15 -0500, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

> Standard Mac fonts don't _have_ edh or thorn. Icelandic isn't one of the
> many languages they're designed to accommodate. Hungarian is, but I
> gather standard Windows fonts don't have the long-umlaut diacritic.

I'd be extremely surprised if up-to-date standard Mac fonts don't handle
Icelandic and Hungarian.

Are Arial Unicode, or the WGL-4 collection, to be considered standard
Windows fonts? I'd say so.

Windows-1250 might handle Hungarian well; I'm not sure; but it's extremely
likely that one of the Windows 125x family does handle Hungarian.

Back in 25 x 80 DOS days, thanks to work by Kosta Kostis, I was able to
switch encodings easily to render Icelandic or Hungarian properly, but not
at the same time. The "downside" was loss of the box-drawing characters.

Regards,

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath