- From: Philippe-Andre Prindeville <philipp@res.enst.fr>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 96 21:12:58 +0100
- To: Stavros Macrakis <macrakis@osf.org>
- Cc: abigail@tungsten.gn.iaf.nl, lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk, rcollins@cariboo.bc.ca, www-html@w3.org
On Jan 3, 13:18, Stavros Macrakis wrote: > Hmmmm.... I'm worried. People might be seeing Unicode as the > end-all, be-all. It's not. It doesn't include IPA (phonetics), > which are badly needed. > > That's nonsense. Unicode has always covered IPA in its "Standard > Phonetic" block as well as providing a full range of diacritics. So why don't any of the linguists I know actually use it? They all know that Unicode exists and have access to 16 bit X fonts... -Philip
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