Re: on usage of non-ascii symbols

[Christopher Fynn <cfynn gmx net>]

The ellipses at least is in virtually every Latin font. Since the glyph 
for this character is in the "Windows ANSI" character set, the 
"Macintosh Roman" character set and the old "Adobe Standard Encoding" it 
is safe to use even with old fonts that have < 256 glyphs, provided the 
font is correctly encoded.

- Chris

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 09:07 +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On 2/27/07, Leonardo Fontenelle <leo fontenelle gmail com> wrote:

> > Epiphany uses real ellipsis like this, and curly double quotation
> > marks (in opposition to the common, "vertical" one). Unicode gives us
> > a lot of unambiguous characters for situations like that, and many
> > people (ex. web standards people) think you should use them as often
> > as possible. I kind of agree with that, too, but as you said they are
> > hard to enter and most people don't like them that much. Recently I
> > talked to the rest of the pt_BR l10n team and we decided not to use
> > this "nice and hard" unicode chars.

> Using such characters would be great if the font users are using
> supports them. I'm certain Bitstream does but what if users use
> another font that doesn't? (hey if pango can determine such situations
> and auto convert to ascii alternatives.. i'm dreaming..)