RE: Asian language fonts?

[Pedriana, Paul]

   >>Another reason for having ugly-looking western 
   >>characters in those fonts is that they are 
   >>simply not used for typography. If you need
   >>western characters, use a western font. 

The problem is that we need to mix them. It is very
common that Asian text will be interspersed with 
Western text. Certainly if I am doing some kind of 
professional or desktop publishing, I can switch 
fonts within a string of text (though that doesn't 
always look right). But for more mundane uses, it 
is impractical to be able to use more than one font
in a line text. Maybe those who are reading Asian 
text don't care what the Western characters look 
like (heck they are monospaced by nature as it is),
and so this really is a non-issue.

Paul