Re: Settling an Argument - Assembly *IS* a Language, Right?

André G. Isaak wrote:

In article <447387B2.44E6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aidan Kehoe wrote:

Ar an tríú lá is fiche de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Peter T. Daniels:

> > >> I wonder whereabouts in the Caucasus Hanum. comes from. If he still
> > >> speaks his ancestral language, he could be an asset round here.
> > >
> > > But how would he type it here?
> >
> > Using a cyrillic font, I'd imagine, unless he's Georgian or Armenian.
>
> What "cyrillic" font accommodates, say, Abkhaz? (Which comes to mind
> because I just received the proofs of my latest article, which includes
> an Abkhaz alphabet table).

Arial Unicode MS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhaz_alphabet is displayed
competently with it. Anyway, whether any font available to you supports a
language is independent of whether you can type it.

Arial isn't a cyrillic font.

How do you define a 'cyrillic font' if not as one which has support for
cyrillic?

Of course not. By that metric, you'd say that Arial is a roman font. No,
Arial is a Gurmukhi font! No, Arial is a Khmer font! Etc. etc. etc.

To print the Abkhaz chart in WWS, we created a dedicated font just for
Abkhaz -- IIRC we had to throw out several characters that might be
expected in a normal PostScript font, just to accommodate all the
letters of the alphabet.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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