<div dir="ltr"><div><div>It is always a good and safe idea to keep the basic latin character set within a non-latin Font file. It may just help in situations where non-standard hardware / software will have some way of showing up their messages in an unexpected, though perhaps rareĀ scenario.<br>
</div>My 2 cents.<br></div>-Viswam<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:23 AM, <a href="mailto:santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com">santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com" target="_blank">santhosh.thottingal@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tuesday 27 August 2013 10:33 PM, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote:<br>
> I guess I agree in principle. Question is - do we make it more<br>
> difficult to any software system if basic latin is removed - TeX,<br>
> others?<br>
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</div>I searched for this information and I see fallback font mechanism exist<br>
in latex with some sophistication. But I never tried.<br>
<br>
And, there is no end for the glyphs to add to support all uses with just<br>
one of our font. That does not make any sense to me.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Santhosh<br>
</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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