Re: dotless j

From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Mon Jul 05 1999 - 07:45:47 EDT


G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 12:57:58PM -0700, Jeroen Hellingman wrote:
>...
> > No, it is a glyph, and not a character entity in itself
>
> So, what are Zapf Dingbats doing in Unicode? And what makes a filled
> circle a character entity?
> ...

Exactly.

> Right now we have a mixed system: Unicode is open to accepting
> characters from anyone who can prove something is a character,
> but apparently accepts glyphs from those with enough clout, e.g.,

Apparently.

> Zapf Dingbats, or certain geometric shapes but not others. The
> situation is made more complicated with TrueType expecting a
> one-on-one mapping of glyphs to characters.
>
> Just my humble opinion.
>

With which I agree.
mg

> Adam



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