Re: Nota Bene Lingua characters (was BN seriously)

[Robert Hemenway robhem@xxxxxxxx]

Emery--

I used the Latin to hide my ignorance. As I recall many of the characters
in Lingua are three-byte codes--though I'm not certain--and my guess is
that this would bring on tricky conversion problems, if not conversion
hysteria.

Didn't know about the MS "web fonts." Thanks.

Robert Hemenway


At 10:45 AM 10/24/99 -0400, Emery Snyder wrote:

>
>Microsoft has "web fonts" that include various ISO character sets for the
>"core fonts", they're free for download. So if you use TTF, that will work,
>but you have to switch fonts (e.g. from Times New Roman to Times New Roman
>Baltic) to get them.
>
>Do your comments about the system being sui generis mean that the NB Lingua
>characters don't convert well into other formats?
>
>