Re: RE: TTF and Unicode surrogates

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Mon May 18 1998 - 12:01:40 EDT


On 5/18/98 6:11 AM, Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie) wrote:

>Um, I am not sure if I understood rightly (having deleted many messages in
>a feverish bid to clear my mail after a week in Athens), but Plane 1 is
>currently getting pretty full as per the Roadmap. So if ye wish to put
>ligature glyphs into one of the outer planes ye ought to pick another plane.
>

Rather, the suggestion is that existing technology to support ligatures
can be used to implement surrogates. Nobody's suggesting adding new
ligatures to the standard.

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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
tseng@blueneptune.com
http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng



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