Re: Bassa Script

From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Fri Nov 07 2008 - 15:06:17 CST

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    Quoting vunzndi@vfemail.net:

    > Quoting "Tom Gewecke" <tom@bluesky.org>:
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    >> On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Don Osborn wrote:
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    >>> The Xenotype site bills its product as "Unicode Bassa font support" with a
    >>> "Bassa Unicode Sample" "encoded as Unicode (utf-8)." What's the deal here?
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    >> He seems to have put the characters in the U+11BXX block instead of
    >> the expected PUA.
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    > But the U+11BXX block is in the PUA .
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    My apologies, Tom, as you pointed out off list U+11BXX is SMP

    It is U+111BXX that would be PUA, plane 16

    Using the smp for unassigned characters can cause all sorts of
    problems, and is not a good idea.

    John K

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