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The very short and simple guide to Unicode & UTF-8

12:59 Friday 21 October 2011 | Posted by: TomWC

For this post I want clarify why I think typesetting should be done by someone who can read the language they are setting rather than someone who can’t. This may sound like a very obvious statement but in my experience there are some LSPs and many clients who use typesetters who can only read their mother tongue (English) and although they might be highly skilled at working with text in design packages they cannot actually follow what they are setting. For me this can equate to additional checks (costs)....read more

Why I think you should use a mother tongue to typeset your documents

17:59 Friday 14 October 2011 | Posted by: TomWC

For this post I want clarify why I think typesetting should be done by someone who can read the language they are setting rather than someone who can’t. This may sound like a very obvious statement but in my experience there are some LSPs and many clients who use typesetters who can only read their mother tongue (English) and although they might be highly skilled at working with text in design packages they cannot actually follow what they are setting. For me this can equate to additional checks (costs)....read more

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