From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 10:24:55 EDT
C J Fynn wrote at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, April 28, 2004:
>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.
This is most easily and most naturally controlled by the end users of
such introspective setups - simply do not allow conflicting PUA code
points on their systems. In such a scenario, the operating system is not
forced to make decisions.
But if there were multiple PUA fonts with competing code points on a
single system, I suggest that OS'es should simply go with the first font
(defining "first" as that font whose file name has the lowest Unicode-
code-point-based "alphabetic" order).
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
218C New Engineering Building
3400 North Charles Street
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218
office: 410 516-6850
cell: 717 817-4897
www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
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