RE: Defined Private Use was: SSP default ignorable characters

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 19:21:44 EDT

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> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of John Jenkins

> FWIW, AAT includes an optional 'prop' table which allows people to
> associate a number of Unicode properties -- most notably
directionality
> -- with specific glyphs in a font. It *is* a little weird to do this,
> as John says, but it's there.

Graphite also permits setting directionality and break weight values.

Nothing like it in OpenType, however.

Peter

Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division

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