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#Foreign chars in T3.0

    03-Oct-93 19:34:11
Fm: Glenn Scott 70523,1041
To: J Saperstein/FontBank 75300,632
As an art historian, I am interested in the history of type faces right back to Gutenberg, so what I have to say is not to put you down. It is a really interesting subject. However, don't you think "in the next couple of years" is a little slow, and a little late? WordPerfect has a variety of foreign keyboards which I switch merrily between, and my HP LJIV happily produces anything I want to put out, so my letters to Europe don't look like I never went to school. Also I think that ASCII has been around for awhile. Is the video world this slow? The Canadian and Europe markets have been around for quite awhile. The European market is actually larger than the American one if you are equipped to tap into it. I think it is all a matter of business. I look forward to your extended sets to be available in December, but in the meantime production has to continue, so I ordered a set from SoftMaker. However, they were so chinzy with their offerings in Toaster 3.0, they should be shamed. I applaud your fonts and I will use them in whatever productions I can where I am sure no foreign characters will come up. I will also buy the new sets when they become available. Those of us who like the new CG should appreciate your expansiveness, but encourage you toward greater versatility, quickly. There are a lot of producers of PostScipt Type I fonts out there. Some of them are even in Europe.