John Savard

  • Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model

    Oh, I agree. That's why I found this an unusual announcement. Which is also partly why I didn't think of the Google font in connection with this, as that was for interfaces, not documentat…
  • Re: Dutch IJ with dots

    Yes, they can. The Chinese writing system is not as complex as is popularly believed by outsiders. A native speaker of Chinese - particularly the Mandarin dialect, but this is true of other Sinitic …
  • Re: Dutch IJ with dots

    As I noted, back in the 1970s, ij would have appeared on the keyboards of computer terminals in the Netherlands, because it was part of the Dutch national versions of 7-bit ASCII under ISO 646, even…
  • Re: Dutch IJ with dots

    I suspect that more than 0.001% of the Dutch people know that the "ij" ligature exists, if only because they would have encountered it on computer keyboards. I don't think that the si…
  • Re: Dutch IJ with dots

    There were two different versions of modified 7-bit ASCII - ISO 646 - for the Netherlands. One had only lower-case ij, and the other had it in both upper-case and lower-case, but neither of those cha…
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