Re: TTF and Unicode surrogates

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Mon May 18 1998 - 15:18:00 EDT

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Ar 11:15 -0700 1998-05-18, scr�obh John Cowan:

>No, the subject of discussion is encoding fonts for characters on the
>Ethereal Planes as if they held mandatory ligatures of surrogates.
>Thus, a TrueType font for 10000 to 100FF would purport to contain
>ligatures for D800+DC00 to D800+DCFF.

Somehow, this makes me uncomfortable.

But font wizard though I am, I have no UCS support as yet.

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