esrig@cornell.UUCP (10/10/85)
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