On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:11:20 -0500, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

> Peter Constable wrote:

>> > From: Nicholas Bodley [mailto:nbodley@...]
>> > Today, standard Mac fonts handle a lot of different languages.

Peter (T.D.), referring to below, I think you used the term "standard
font"; I'm not backtracking to find out, just now. As to the verb
"provided", I think that was implicit. (This is unsubstantiated
recollection, possibly flawed.)

I'm atypically and temporarily engaging in how many picoangels can dance
on the head of a centipin. (Nanotechnology to the rescue!)

[P. C.]:

>> Scroll down, and you'll see that the Mac OS includes an input method
>> for Icelandic. They wouldn't do that if they didn't also provide fonts
>> that support Icelandic.
>>
>> So note, Peter D, fonts provided on the Mac *do* include eth and thorn.

[P. T. D.]

> "Fonts provided on the Mac"? Is that what I was talking about?

It seems so, yes. Kindly see above.

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