Re: Last Resort Glyphs (was: About the European MES-2 subset)

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 11:56:35 EDT

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    On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 1:15 PM, Michael Everson wrote:

    >> So fonts containing these glyphs could be designed to display these
    >> glyphs, in a way similar to the current assignment of control
    >> pictures.
    >
    > Um, that's what the Last Resort font does, outside of Unicode encoding
    > space. (I don't think PUA characters are used, actually, but I could
    > be wrong.
    >

    No, it uses the acutal Unicode characters, and just has a huge cmap
    that maps everything in Unicode to the glyph for its block.

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