RE: Character identities

From: Figge, Donald (Donald.Figge@usa.xerox.com)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 17:31:00 EST

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    At 20:59 +0000 2002-10-28, Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin wrote:
    >On 2002.10.28, 13:09, David Starner <starner@okstate.edu> wrote:
    >
    >> Basically, any decorative or handwriting font can't be a Unicode font.
    ><...>
    >> Seems pointless to tell a lot of the fontmakers out there that they
    >> shouldn't worry about Unicode, because Unicode's only for standard
    >> book fonts
    >
    >Hm, what if I want to make, say, snow capped Devanagari glyphs for my
    >hiking company in Nepal? Shouldn't I assign them to Unicode code points?

    That's what Private Use code positions are for. 

    -- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
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I don't think so. He seems to be talking about a specific typographic style.
Code points don't care about style, whether it's Franklin Gothic or
Snowcapped Helvetica.
Don

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