Marion said...
> there is no reason to encode in the
> UCS or in 10646, _any_ new precomposed Latin combinations
and Michael said...
> The chief reason for wanting to do so now is font-related.
Correction: It is rendering (text sub-system) related. Fonts themselves
have nothing to do with it, Michael. Fonts are just numbered bags of glyphs
-- it's what you DO with the glyphs that makes the difference. If all your
display system can do is string glyphs one-after the other corresponding
one-to-one with codepoints, then you'll need every interesting graphical
element as a unit of encoding. If all your string-manipulation routines can
do is blind binary comparision, then you're out of luck in other ways.
Rick
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