Re: Character identities

From: David Starner (starner@okstate.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 17:39:40 EST

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    On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:36:34PM +0000, Michael Everson wrote:
    > At 20:59 +0000 2002-10-28, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
    > >On 2002.10.28, 13:09, David Starner <starner@okstate.edu> wrote:
    > >
    > >> Basically, any decorative or handwriting font can't be a Unicode font.
    > ><...>
    > >> Seems pointless to tell a lot of the fontmakers out there that they
    > >> shouldn't worry about Unicode, because Unicode's only for standard
    > >> book fonts
    > >
    > >Hm, what if I want to make, say, snow capped Devanagari glyphs for my
    > >hiking company in Nepal? Shouldn't I assign them to Unicode code points?
    >
    > That's what Private Use code positions are for.

    But think of the utility if Unicode added a COMBINING SNOWCAP and
    COMBINING FIRECAP! But should we combine the SNOWCAP with the ICECAP?

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    David Starner - starner@okstate.edu
    Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom--
    A field where a thousand corpses lie. 
      -- Stephen Crane, "War is Kind"
    


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