From: Chris Jacobs ([email protected])
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 04:21:05 EST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Ewell" <[email protected]>
To: "Unicode Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Chris Jacobs" <[email protected]>; "Pim Blokland"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: Custom fonts (was: Tolkien wanta-be)
> Chris Jacobs <c dot t dot m dot jacobs at hccnet dot nl> wrote:
>
> > A codepoint in itself does not specify a character.
> > Font + codepoint does specify a character.
> > Charset + codepoint also can specify a character.
>
> All true for non-Unicode fonts. But then one is left to wonder why we
> are discussing this on the Unicode list.
>
> > Say font A has on E000 an apple symbol, while font B has there a
> > banana.
> > Say for this reason I gave font B an offset of 0100
> >
> > Then on my system U+E000 in plaintext should indeed display an apple
> > symbol and U+E100 a banana symbol.
> > But if there are more fonts with an apple symbol U+E000 does not
> > specify the font to use.
>
> This isn't conformant and won't work.
Which rule in The Unicode Standard Version 3.0 exactly is this not
conformant with?
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