From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Sun Mar 11 2007 - 18:30:15 CST
Dear Jeroen,
these are considered to be equivalent in unicode, which means you need
the unicode codepoint plus some other marker.
One way is described in
http://unicode.org/reports/tr37/
and todate ione submission has been recieved
http://www.unicode.org/ivd/pri/pri98/index.html
John
Quoting Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@in-nomine.org>:
> Hi John,
>
> -On [20070311 18:08], vunzndi@vfemail.net (vunzndi@vfemail.net) wrote:
>> in unicode terms whether the square is on the left or the right is a
>> matter for the fontmaker to decide for the character U+9AA8, or for
>> any of the 304 other characters in unicode that have U+9AA8 as part of
>> the character.
>
> I take it you mean that the type design is totally up to the designer I
> understand that.
>
> It does make sense if in this case they both refer to the same character,
> because if they do not then there's a need to disambiguate into separate code
> points for all I know. And that's what I am in essence trying to find out.
> That I am in fact working with the right characters and yes then you
> automatically come to how a certain glyph is given form, especially if you
> also have to provide a means to look them up by radical(s). And then any
> unexplained inconsistency by the Unicode reference glyphs causes eyebrows to
> get raised.
>
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