I have a question regards Unicode and TTF. The superiority of Unicode is clear from both scientific and systems approach perspectives.
My question stems from a perceived need to be able to communicate with persons around the world whose computers are not yet upgraded to be able to accommodate Unicode. I do not have any numbers to say how common it is, but the question I would ask is: in your experience how common is it for Hindi readers to be accessing computers running on for example Win 98 which can only recognize TTF fonts? I do communicate regularly with many people in India via text documents in Hindi. Are there many people in India today who still only have access to TTF fonts? It is a matter which perhaps warrants addressing, because it is still a reality in today's world of communication. Actually, many of those with whom I communicate access computers either at their work place, which is surely going to be a modern computer with Unicode access, or at internet cafes which again are modern computers with Unicode access. Those with home computers, I have not queried directly yet: how many of them have pre-2000 computers which cannot recognize Unicode? Is there any facility in the current Linux system for accommodating communication with non-Unicode users? Regards, Swarup -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
