Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

From: jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 17:52:06 EST

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    I happened upon this:

    http://www.hit.uib.no/mufi/

    Allocating PUA ranges, precomposed characters, ligatures, oh my.

    But off-hand I assume they are headed towards the right direction:

    > Unicode proposal in planning
    >
    > People working in the Unicode community have encouraged us to present an official
    > proposal to Unicode for inclusion of characters needed for the transcription of
    > medieval sources in the Latin alphabet. We are presently working on a proposal,
    > and will publish any news on this project here.

    Maybe the PUA use is just intended as a temporary measure? 

    -- 
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jarkko.hietaniemi@nokia.com>

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