Re: Mac shows Windows glyphs okay in old T1 fonts ... but how?

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On Thu, 19 May 2005, Tim Murray wrote:

>> I think that this is the source of your confusion. "Most fonts" have,
>> in fact, always included the indicated fractions, ½, ¼, and ¾. Even the
>> one you're using to view this message.
>
> But I'm pretty sure it's not true for fractions for many of the standard Type
> 1s like Times, Helvetica, Courier, and so on.

All TrueType fonts from Apple have included glyphs for *all*
Latin-1 characters from the beginning (~1990).
The _glyphs_ are in the fonts, although the MacRoman character set
does not include such _characters_. It is (or was) the job of the
application to access such glyphs. Most programs can't. Mozilla 1.3
for Mac OS 9 can.

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