Fonts & Encodings by Yannis Haralambous: water in the desert

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I cannot think of a technical book that I have enjoyed more in the last decade than Yannis Haralambous' new Fonts & Encodings from O'Reilly. It plonked on my desk this week, with a resounding bang: it has over 1,000...

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