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