From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 17:39:48 EST
At 14:30 -0800 2002-10-28, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> > >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.
>> --
>> Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
>
>Um, Michael, I think Anto'nio was talking about glyphs in a
>decorative font, which should -- clearly -- just be mapped to
>ordinary Unicode characters, via an ordinary Unicode cmap.
If they correspond to Unicode characters, yes, certainly.
>Or do you think that the yellow, cursive, shadow-dropped, 3-D
>letters "Getaway!" at:
>
>http://www.trekking-in-nepal.com/
>
>should also be represented by Private Use code positions? ;-)
Not at all. Fonts with images of igloos and yurts would use it,
though, I would think.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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