<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 3:17 PM Wookey <<a href="mailto:wookey@wookware.org">wookey@wookware.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2023-09-05 23:15 +1200, Paul Rowe wrote:<br>
> This will be really handy as our Māori alphabet includes accented<br>
> characters unavailable in the default non-Unicode set.<br>
<br>
Maybe the default therion font should be set to a unicode one so it<br>
works for more people/languages/countries? That seems sensible at this<br>
point. Pretty-much everyone should have unicode fonts avaiable and<br>
working, shouldn't they?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We would need to ship such a font with therion to ensure that the default font is found.</div><div><br></div><div>But the real issue is that using TTF or OTF fonts is much slower, as therion converts them on the fly to a set of PFB fonts (each font containing at most 256 characters) because MetaPost can't use unicode fonts.</div><div><br></div><div>Martin</div></div></div>