[j-g-faustus]

I remember we had problems with Norwegian fonts in the early 1990s - printing, copying between computers and email would invariably mess up the æ, ø and å. Even the computer science department of the university I attended in the mid-90s didn't get it right. I think it took close to ten years before the majority of printouts and emails were correct.

But compared to Azerbaijan, I understand we were lucky - at least we didn't have to mess around with creating our own fonts :)

Good point on how tools put constraints on expression, BTW. I guess ASCII art is another example, and the ASCII smiley :-) is still with us.

Even today mixing text and freehand drawing or images is troublesome enough that we rarely bother. In a sense it is somewhat curious that 60 years of computer science has not been enough to replicate the convenience of a handwritten note...