1. Re: big font weekend
To answer a few questions:
1. Unicode, which is supposed to cover all of the world's written
languages, after about 5 years of committee-generated red-tape only extends
to about 38,000 characters. The Chinese content alone of what I have to
put into the EU Big Fonts (whatever) is over 45,000. The Japanese
extension upon this (which can be covered in the same characters as the
Chinese) are about the same, and so is the Korean Hangul. I also have been
extending Korea's own native phonetic writing set (which is wonderfully
flexible and powerful in its own right) to about 10,000 characters. You
can see that this already swamps the Unicode standard and renders it
useless for any type of technical work in these languages. This is turning
out to be a Euphorian First, and I am proud to have so much help in
bringing this little-known and mostly-ignored basic fact to the attention
of others.
I am taking the weekend off to do programming. Will get back to everyone
on Monday.
Everyone have a good Weekend,
Norm
