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On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:40:33 +0100, "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@xxx.xx> wrote:
> * H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xxxxxx.xx> [2006-10-30 08:35]:
> > The iso-10646 set covers enough utf-8 for my daily needs and
> > for xtemm's and other "normal" applications, the font
> > -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1 suits
> > enough to have clear and distict characters that are sizabl?e
> >
> > For documents that need Unicode, Lucida Sans Unicode and Lucida
> > Console are good enough for me.
>
> Thank goodness for transliterators... :-) I'm not sure what would
> be "sadder": if you did this manually, or if you have code on
> hand to do that. :-)
It is the latter, and using it here is just some side effect fun.
It was written to generate valid unicode by generating random diacritical
marks on latin characters to test an interface that should be able to deal
with it. Maybe I'm sick. I prefer to be sick like this rather than to be
bound to be forbidden to think out of the box most SW writers seem to be
confined by.
--
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& 11.23, SuSE 10.0, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org
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