-
Re: Basic characters for scientific publications
As @"John Hudson" wrote it depends on the branch of science. For most you need Greek letters which are used for enumeration or naming of variants (botany, zoology, chemistry, pharmacy) and …1 -
Re: Where do I find which glyphs are required for a given language?
To be fair Unicode CLDR was first released 2003-12-19. In the dark times before technicians (including me) did "something". CLDR allows locale tags based on BCP47, which allow to specify la…2 -
Re: Where do I find which glyphs are required for a given language?
@"John Savard" AFAIK Moldavian is a Romanian dialect which developed isolated for political reasons, kept some old vocabulary and adopted Slavic words under Russian influence. When I compil…3 -
Re: Why no movable type revolution in Asia in the countries that have a limited number of characters?
@"Hin-Tak Leung" Movable wooden types were also known and used in Europe before Gutenberg, maybe brought from Asia. What he really invented (or developed, improved) was the mass production …1 -
Re: For those who have worked with icon fonts before: overshoots or no overshoots?
Over- or undershoot in relation to which line? The opticons I use have the height (32) of the corresponding text line (34) and are placed in a navigation element (dark red) of height 50. Thus it make…2
