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

From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 15:47:38 EDT

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    On 20/07/2003 06:20, Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:

    >Philippe Verdy wrote on 07/19/2003 01:24:48 PM:
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    >>Isn't this page creating the idea for a specific block of
    >>script-representative glyphs, that could be mapped in plane 14
    >>as special supplementary characters ?
    >>
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    >What would be the purpose of encoding these? I can't think of any. They
    >certainly don't need to be encoded as distinct characters to use in a Last
    >Resort font.
    >
    >
    >- Peter
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    One good reason would be so that a page like
    http://www.unicode.org/charts/ can be represented without having to use
    lots of .gifs, so for efficiency, searchability etc. Which is pretty
    much the same reason for defining any Unicode characters at all, given
    that documents and web pages can always be created, though inefficiently
    and unsearchably, from lots of images.

    -- 
    Peter Kirk
    peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com
    http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
    


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