Latexi95

Latexi95 t1_jd3w01f wrote

They are fonts that include information how to render those characters, but they also include rendering instructions for normal latin characters and other commonly used characters, because it is quite common to need both. It isn't like wingdings, where latin letters produce icons. Letter A is still rendered as A. You need to write actual Sanskrit characters to add them to your document. So you need to change your keyboard layout to something that produces those characters, copy them from somewhere or use alt-codes.

Computers handle text as list of numbers. On character is produced by sequence of one or multiple numbers in the list. Fonts define how these different numbers should be shown to the user, what kind of lines should appear on screen. So eg. 65 -> A. Unicode is a standard that defines which number means which character. Fonts include instructions to draw only some of the characters, because Unicode includes huge number of really weird characters and emojis. Sanskrit letters have different number codes than latin letters. Keyboard layout defines which number a key press produces.

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Latexi95 t1_iyj5lib wrote

We would happily switch to more standard European gauge here in Finland, if EU would pay for it. Mostly issue is money and lack of need to change. We have train lines to Sweden, which require switching trains on border, but they aren't that hugely popular and important as Lapland has fairly low population density. Only direction that normally has really much need for trains is to Russia, which has "close enough" gauge that suitable trains can work with both rails.

It is hard to sell the changing of gauge politically when the benefits are so small. EU has some ideas about unified train network, and they aren't keen to give money for building for "wrong" gauge, but I doubt they would pay us to change the gauge and trains to European standard...

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