Re: SSP default ignorable characters, was: Variation selectors and vowel marks

From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 13:36:04 EDT

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    Kenneth Whistler wrote at 6:41 PM on Monday, April 26, 2004:

    >If you want to display characters implemented in the PUA
    >at all, then you need a custom font, mapping glyphs from
    >the PUA code points you have defined. Anybody else who wants
    >to see your data will need that font.

    But, as you may recall from an earlier thread here about 2 months ago,
    starting in Mac OS X 10.3, font substitution is not supported for
    characters in the user part of the PUA. This has definitely adversely
    affected my research.

    Respectfully,

    Dean A. Snyder

    Assistant Research Scholar
    Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
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    Whiting School of Engineering
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