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— — — Doug Ewell wrote: — — —

> Charlie Ruland ⚜<ruland at luckymail dot com> wrote:
>
>
>> Meanwhile I have received a copy of the font.
>> ...
>> Private Use Area (3,655 out of 6,400 characters)
>>
> If canIPA really requires 3,655 private-use characters, it would
> probably have to be examined extra, EXTRA carefully by the relevant
> committees before anyone gets their hopes up about it being formally
> encoded.
>
No, canIPA doesn’t require that many characters; most of the font’s PUA
characters are actually precomposed characters, exact copies of basic
Latin or IPA letters, or blank (reserved for future work?).

Best,
Charlie ☘
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