Latexi95
Latexi95 t1_jd3w01f wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why do the majority of fonts in Microsoft Word have Indian/Middle Eastern names but show up as Roman characters in identical basic fonts? by black_rose_
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.
Latexi95 t1_j141pd7 wrote
Reply to comment by KeepTangoAndFoxtrot in Court ruling: High earners can't prevent media accessing their tax data. by FINCoffeeDaddy
In this case he would have had to pay huge extra taxes if that "typo" wasn't corrected, so clearly not attempt to gain tax benefit.
Usually point of tax fraud is to reduce taxable income, not increase it. ;)
Latexi95 t1_iyj5lib wrote
Reply to comment by villevalla in TIL that the southern United States converted all 11,500+ miles of its railroads from broad gauge (5 ft/1.524 m) to nearly-standard gauge (4 ft 9 in/​1.448 m) in just 36 hours, starting on May 31, 1886 by 1859
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...
Latexi95 t1_ivdwsqk wrote
Reply to comment by GamerViking in Norway plans sanctuary for ‘spy’ whale Hvaldimir who came in from cold by lilmammamia
So Whaledimir. It kinda works in English also. :)
Latexi95 t1_itoxc3b wrote
Reply to comment by carlitos_moreno in Deflecting asteroids is not enough — we need to know when they approach by burtzev
No. These kind of works take months to calculate in total and are split into millions of smaller tasks that are then distributed to all devices. Your computer will just calculate as many small parts as it can. It gets new assignment when it has completed one small part of the calculation.
Latexi95 t1_jd3zsnh wrote
Reply to comment by black_rose_ in ELI5: Why do the majority of fonts in Microsoft Word have Indian/Middle Eastern names but show up as Roman characters in identical basic fonts? by black_rose_
I don't know. I don't have the same issue.
It is possible that some software that you have used, installed tons of additional fonts for some reason.