Bill D

In Win95, all installed fonts were "loaded" everytime you booted. If you put a lot of fonts on your machine, your memory would be full of fonts and the machine wouldn't run.

I've been told that Win98 loads the first "n" fonts, and then quits, unless you actually use another one, and then it swaps with something else. Since I had already cleaned my font sets out before I went to Win98 I haven't actually tested this theory.

Having thousands of fonts doesn't really do anything for you if - like most normal fonts - they are just variations of the same character set. It is likely that almost all the fonts you have are the Latin-1, or extensions thereto character set(s), with the exception of Symbol and some Dingbats - or maybe something that has some specific special use with something you've hooked up to.

But the standards organization in charge does list about 35 pages of "approved character set names."

The problem with having another character set is - you can write it, but nobody can read it, unless they have the same stuff. Or, you could read it, but nobody ever sends you any.

Are we havin' fun yet?

John