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Re: [tlug] Freely distributable Japanese capable utf8 font?



On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:43:19 +0900, Dave M G <dave@example.com> wrote:

> I thought that's what utf-8 was - the ability to display any language.

Provided the font supports it.

UTF-8 is a way of encoding the text by mapping set code sequences to
characters. Nothing's to say, however, that a font has to contain the
glyphs for all of the characters that can be represented using UTF-8.

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G. Stewart - gstewart@example.com

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