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On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:00:49 -0700 (PDT), Rustom Mody
<rustompmody@gmail.com> declaimed the following:


>There simply doesn't exist a font (or more likely I dont know of) that 
>- is readable
>- is scaleable
>- spans the whole 17*65536 unicode space
>
	Considering that a 5x8 bitmap font (which is unlikely to even have
enough pixels to produce even 65536 unique glyphs) would take 5.6MB for
your (17*65536), I wouldn't want to see what an algorithmic description
would require.

	Looking at some of my collection of fonts, TTF and some PS, seem to be
running around 100kB per font, and those fonts likely have around 128-192
glyphs.

	For 1114112 glyphs (17*65536) at, say 164 glyphs pre 100kB gives 680MB
per FONT. Assume the standards: normal, bold, italic, bold-italic -- one is
now up to 2.7GB per typeface. 5.4GB to support just one serif and one sans
serif typeface.
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