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How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)

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Re: How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)

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Post by amingilani »

amriksohata wrote: post #9

Pakistan is not a democracy, it is run by the military regardless of who is in power, the ISI it's it's real head of state, which have a pro-islamist agenda but with a slightly modern outlook for economic growth. Regardless if he did any wrongdoing, there have been far worse acts by politicians in Pakistan and they have got away with it.

That may have been true a few decades ago, but it's certainly becoming more democratic.. still not the best, though. Especially with the military curb circulations of a private national newspaper.

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Post by jessaustin »

amriksohata wrote: post #9

Pakistan is not a democracy, it is run by the military regardless of who is in power, the ISI it's it's real head of state, which have a pro-islamist agenda but with a slightly modern outlook for economic growth. Regardless if he did any wrongdoing, there have been far worse acts by politicians in Pakistan and they have got away with it.

I didn't really understand USA until I spent some time considering Pakistan.

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Post by philliphaydon »

chris_wot wrote: post #14
philliphaydon wrote: post #10

If it was released in beta of longhorn in 2004 couldn’t they have still legitimately created the doc???

The first public beta was released on June 6, 2006.

> It was first presented in a 2004 beta of Windows Vista, then codenamed Longhorn

According to Wikipedia.

Hence my question. Even tho it wasn’t yet part of office could it have been selected if it was installed on the OS?

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Post by Freak_NL »

ccozan wrote: post #4
huntertwo wrote: post #2

That’s really funny. Don’t think I’ve ever seen Calibri on any legal document now that I think of it.

I guess Courier would be the standart choice, right? At least most of the official and semi official papers I've seen were typed in a variant of it.

A large part of that seems due to inertia; these kind of documents have always been typeset in a monospaced font, so there is bound to be a good reason for it — or so the mindset goes.

That reason usually boils down to 'because that's what it looked with typewriters before we switched to desktop publishing'.

In the US Courier stuck, in other countries it was Times New Roman with bad default choices for leading, font size, and line width. Legal and government typography for Latin alphabet based scripts seems to mostly be substandard everywhere.

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