Re: Characters and glyphs - was Re: [I18n]bdftruncate again ;)

[Brian Stell <bstell at ix dot netcom dot com>]

Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> ...
> A simpler example is that 'A' and 'a' are the same character, but
> different glyphs. If Unicode was being even-handed, it would
> include one but not both of these glyphs, and application software
> would have to calculate which glyph to use each time the character
> was drawn.

I'd prefer to add some kind of support for Arabic rather than 
remove something from Latin1.

> This example shows how biased Unicode is towards Latin characters.

This is quite true. It is a hard problem to see one's own bias.

-- 
Brian Stell