From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,a50a3c40267219cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-17 01:39:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!dns.phoenix-ag.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!cert.uni-stuttgart.de!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Modern languages are case sensitive? Date: 17 Oct 2001 10:39:32 +0200 Organization: RUS-CERT, University of Stuttgart, Germany Sender: rusfw@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de Message-ID: References: <3105e154.0110150021.32ff5426@posting.google.com> <9qeg5r$266$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <3BCB2E0B.5D7894CD@boeing.com> <5ee5b646.0110160342.23b9481c@posting.google.com> <87g08jobpp.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <9qhpq7$8241@news.cis.okstate.edu> <874rozmilu.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <9qi9ac$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: hornet.rus.uni-stuttgart.de 1003307926 24026 129.69.1.226 (17 Oct 2001 08:38:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cert.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:38:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14782 Date: 2001-10-17T10:39:32+02:00 List-Id: David Starner writes: > > In most cases, you can use fonts which highlight these differences > > (IBM did this with their PC, and has stuck since: "0" has got a dot in > > the middle, and "|" a hole). > > Meaning that | and � (U+00A6, BROKEN BAR, in Latin-1) are easily > confused. IBM's character sets do not support Latin-1. > Why do you need full Unicode fonts? Just use codepage fonts and patch > them together. Most operating systems do not support this; you need complete fonts, or the application has to perform the font switching amnually.