On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Michael Everson wrote:
> I would be happy to put them in plane 17 or something so we could have a
> unified glyph space (i.e. AFII) with permanent character-to-glyph mapping
> vectors. That would be helpful to many font implementors.
>
> (Actually, I think this was Umamaheswaran's idea a few years back.)
I think this can't be done with Unicode. As time passes, new typographic
conventions are put, and so there will be a need for new glyphs. Let's
someone like Adobe who is specialist in typography do that. Not a
standardization consortium. The standardization consortium needs to
discuss more important things like semantics of the character. I think the
problem is with font formats like TTF who use Unicode this much. Would you
please look at the Arabic combining forms? There are many many ligatures
there. If I am a font format designer, why should I select the same points
for my fonts? I will find a more mathematical relation between characters
and glyphs, and put that in my font format. Not the weird table of
Unicode. And I will see that there are some other glyphs misssing, like
some ligatures. Should I put them in a far far part of my table named
private use part? Or should I use the parts marked as reserved? I only
want to keep my table in a single place...
--Roozbeh
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