Re: Re[2]: FW: acronym in title...

Good point, although you are safest in that case actually annotating with
the font, and not depending on the target system.

(Interestingly, a colleague pointed out that with TrueType, it is very easy
to do nasty spoofing. The hinting for each character is actually a little
program, and it can completely alter the shape of a character based on
environment. The same character in the same font may look like a "6" on a
Windows box, like a "X" on a Linux box, and like a 'peace sign' on a
Macintosh.)

Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>
Cc: "Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>; <ishida@w3.org>;
<w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>; <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>; "Al Gilman"
<asgilman@iamdigex.net>; <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 09:44
Subject: Re: Re[2]: FW: acronym in title...


>
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Mark Davis wrote:
>
> > I wonder how realistic these scenarios are. The principal motivation for
a
> > fine-grained language tagging of individual words or phrases appears to
be
> > for text-to-speech, primarily for the blind.
>
> Or choosing an appropriate glyph for characters that have very different
> appearance in different languages, like the Persian 7 vs the Urdu 7, that
> share a codepoint but have different appearances.
>
> roozbeh
>
> PS: Just today, I showed a Maggie instant spaghetti pack to my mother and
> brother (both have a BSc) and asked them what do they think the weight is,
> by just looking at the Urdu text printed on the box and not the English.
> My brother said 40 grams and my mother couldn't comment. She said that it
> may be 10 grams, but this pack is much heavier. It was 70.
>
>
>

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