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*Some of the removed glyphs (most importantly ß, Ê, ù and û, but also Ú and ú) occur in [[wp:Languages_of_the_European_Union#Knowledge|common European languages]].<br/>This made the US font/encoding unsuitable for [[wiktionary:EFIGS|EFIGS]] localizations, and prompted the edition of a new version (see below). | *Some of the removed glyphs (most importantly ß, Ê, ù and û, but also Ú and ú) occur in [[wp:Languages_of_the_European_Union#Knowledge|common European languages]].<br/>This made the US font/encoding unsuitable for [[wiktionary:EFIGS|EFIGS]] localizations, and prompted the edition of a new version (see below). | ||
*The US engine actually cannot interpret any code points beyond the US-ASCII range (first 6 rows, white background), such as "…" (see [[# | *The US engine actually cannot interpret any code points beyond the US-ASCII range (first 6 rows, white background), such as "…" (see [[#Ellipsis_issue|BELOW]]).<br/>This is because of a provision for Asian encoding systems (EUC-CN and Shift JIS), which use two-byte sequences starting with a high-bit byte. | ||
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===European=== | ===European=== | ||
The code page used by the five Western European versions (UK English, French, German, Spanish and Italian) is slightly different from the trimmed-down Mac OS Roman. | The code page used by the five Western European versions (UK English, French, German, Spanish and Italian) is slightly different from the trimmed-down Mac OS Roman. | ||