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From: esrig@cornell.UUCP
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Subject: Font research lying fallow at old EOSC
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 16:26:15 EDT
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From: esrig (Bruce Esrig)

If anyone wants to look at recently abandoned work on fonts,
consider this lead: the late Exxon Office Systems produced
a workstation that had several acceptably large installed fonts.
Essentially, you had to choose among European, scientific, and American.

I don't know whether they addressed the problem of collation
order in detail, but they included the Icelandic characters
and an enormous variety of accented characters in their European font.
I believe they treated accented characters as two characters in
a row.  It is possible that the representation they used was
broken into 8-bit chunks, which would make their solution an
interesting one to examine.

	Bruce Esrig
	esrig@gvax.cs.cornell.edu