>This is a barrier erected for three reasons:
>
> 1. If a proposed character can't pass the font test -- i.e., nobody can
> come up with a usable font that contains it -- then it may be of
> rather marginal usefulness, since apparently people *aren't* using
it.
> Of course, historical materials printed with lead type or other
> technologies may be exceptions, if no one has gotten around to
> constructing modern computer fonts for it yet.
>
Hmmm... Printed??? Ogham and Gothic come to mind.
Why does the printed word get so much more respect than the written word?
It would be like saying that for a spoken language to be accepted into a
registry, one must make a speech synthesizer for the language.
Are not handwritten glyphs just as valid as printed / typed / computer
generated ones?
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