Analysis of combining diacritics support

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Jul 23 18:02:49 UTC 2008


Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 18:13 +0200, Ben Laenen a écrit :
>  Because font foundries 
> select their character sets based on the market demand,

Because font foundries select their character sets based on the
countries they want to sell fonts to…

> they don't see 
> a lot of merit in adding glyphs and features that are only needed 
> there.

… they don't see a lot of merit in adding glyphs used in poor countries
and/or countries where they don't intend to invest in a commercial
entity.

> So, that's basically something we should exploit with free/open fonts, 
> to give us the lead in these areas.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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