From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 17:40:28 EST
At 14:31 -0800 2002-10-28, Figge, Donald wrote:
>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
>------
>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.
I must have misunderstood. I think I only saw the "snow-capped" and
not the "Devanagari". Sorry.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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