RE: Character identities

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 17:40:28 EST

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    At 14:31 -0800 2002-10-28, Figge, Donald 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.
    >--
    >Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
    >------
    >I don't think so. He seems to be talking about a specific typographic style.
    >Code points don't care about style, whether it's Franklin Gothic or
    >Snowcapped Helvetica.

    I must have misunderstood. I think I only saw the "snow-capped" and
    not the "Devanagari". Sorry.

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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