Fonts/Apple, Adobe and Netscape

[lusthaus at macalstr.edu]

>Adobe, Apple and Netscape to Collaborate on New Internet Font Technology
>
>Collaboration to Establish the Standard For High-Quality, High-Performance
>Fonts on the Web; Companies to Submit Proposal to Industry Standards
>Organizations

end-run around Unicode, which means that their standard would not
necessarily include the fullest complement of diacritics (e.g., for
Sanskrit and other Indian languages) nor non-roman fonts (e.g., CKJ,
Arabic, Persian, Russian, etc.). If so, it'll still be some time before
those become standard accessible fonts (as opposed to add on capabilities
as is now possible for East Asian languages with Netscape). Has anyone
heard differently?


Dan Lusthaus
Macalester College
lusthaus at macalstr.edu