060513 Mark Knecht wrote:
> being a musican and not a computer scientist,
> I suppose they are fonts that use 16-bits
> instead of whatever they use when I don't include the unicode flag.
> the question still arises, why would I want these on my system?

If you confine yourself entirely to English, French, German & Spanish,
you shouldn't need Unicode; if you extend to Russian, Welsh or Esperanto,
you will find it useful when switching between those languages & English.
That's "briefly", as you are requesting (smile).

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