[78-L] Fwd: alt [was Montréal^]

[Chris Zwarg]

At 20:31 07.10.2008, you wrote:
>Dave,
>
>Now why didn't I think of that?    I google everything else!  But how complete is it?  And which fonts does it support.  Incidentally, if you use the correct font, you can get all of the Cyrillic letters.  Of course, there's always Alphabetum.
>
>Howard

For texts involving more than one language (also for e-mail viewing) I prefer "Arial Unicode" font (NOT identical with "Arial" !) - gives a very clear and legible printout down to very small font sizes if necessary, and includes literally *everything* including Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese characters. This is a proprietary Microsoft font AFAIK, and I have no idea if there is an equivalent for Mac/Linux users. If you use a non-Unicode font (i.e. one with a less-than-complete array of characters), your software will either display missing characters as little empty boxes or query marks, or will "borrow" them from a (theoretically) similar-looking font that has them, which can easily make your text look more like a cut-and-paste blackmail letter job, and often throws your settings for spacing and tabs....

Chris Zwarg