On 10/15/06, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Erik Zachte wrote:
Here is a specific one that hopefully would even be possible within our current budget:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code2000
This is an amazing labour of love by one person, James Kass, and distributed as shareware for a meagre $5. As far as I know there is no font file that comes close in breadth of coverage, except perhaps for MsArialUnicode, which is a 25 Mb font file from Microsoft, and not free nor shareware :(
Erik Zachte
Hoi, This is indeed an exquisite proposal .. Make the Fonts Free .. :) Thanks Erik for proposing this, GerardM
That is an interesting proposal, but I don't quite understand: how are fonts copyrighted, and why is that a bad thing?
On the other hand, if he's only asking 5$, we could probably raise enough money to ransom it just in en.
--Gwern