From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Aug 07 2004 - 11:58:47 CDT
Hannes Mayer <h dot mayer at inode dot at> wrote:
> BTW, just out of curiosity, if one proposes a new character, and it
> is approved, how long does it take until that new character is avail-
> able in the most common fonts ?
Just so there is no confusion: If the "new character" you are proposing
is a Greek lowercase nu with a macron above, then it will not ever be
approved in Unicode, because it can already be represented with the
sequence U+03BD U+0304.
If you are having problems getting this sequence to display properly in
browsers, see:
http://www.unicode.org/help/display_problems.html
In general you will achieve your goals much faster by waiting for
browser and display-engine technology to improve so that combining
diacritics are displayed correctly than by proposing new precomposed
characters and (even if they were approved) waiting for "the most
common" general-purpose fonts to be updated to include them.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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