From: C J Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 09:00:46 EDT
"Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net> wrote:
> Once you assign a character to a PUA code point, you have the right (and
> IMHO the responsibility) to assign appropriate properties to it. (As
> Peter Kirk points out, though, that doesn't magically endow software
> with the ability to recognize those properties.)
Unless you use some private scheme - to have such properties "recognised" they
would need to be available in some standard, specified format. I guess these
properties could be defined in some standardised way in documents that use
them - or, since users are usually going to need a font to display glyphs for
any characters assigned to PUA codepoints, a table containing the
appropriate property values could be added to "PUA fonts". If a
standard name and specification was published for such a table it
wouldn't be too difficult for font developers to add such a table to their
fonts or for software developers to make applications which used the
information.
Of course any system which implemented something like this would have to be
designed to avoid conflicts in situations where there were multiple PUA fonts
with different characters having conflicting properties assigned to the same
PUA codepoints.
- Chris
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