RE: Unicode Stability (Was: Re: E0000 Language Tags for Some Obscure Languages)

From: Peter Constable ([email protected])
Date: Fri Mar 04 2005 - 18:51:46 CST

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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf
> Of Addison Phillips

> Most fonts don't encode the whole of Unicode, so they aren't really
the problem. Fonts
> that support every assigned code point are unlikely to be more than a
curiosity

Actually, commonly-used font file formats have a limitation of 65536
glyphs, so it isn't even possible to support every *currently* assigned
code point in a meaningful way (e.g. not counting mapping every
character to the .notdef glyph).

Peter Constable

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