Re: Character identities

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 17:39:48 EST

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    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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