From: David Starner (dvdeug@fullnet.net)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 15:03:49 EST
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:36:19PM -0000, William Overington wrote:
> For example, as a first suggestion, if U+E400 and
> upwards were used for that purpose, would that be a suitable choice for the
> various font makers who might like to consider adding such characters into
> their existing fonts?
What good would a private use character do here? The private use area is
good for Tengwar, Cirth and Shavian (all of which have multiple fonts
using the same private use area encoding.) But there's no huge demand to
interchange data with these characters, and the few users are probably
going to use something less complex then the private use area. Assuming
I scan this book in for Project Gutenberg, I'll probably use something
like [3], [4], [4,] and [4,h] for the characters, at least in the ASCII
version (and there'd be no reason to post a Unicode version if these
characters aren't in Unicode.) It's simple, readable and precise,
something your solution only has one of.
-- David Starner - dvdeug@email.ro Einstein once said that it would be hard to teach in a co-ed college since guys were only looking on girls and not listening to the teacher. He was objected that they would be listening to _him_ very attentively, forgetting about any girls. But such guys won't be worth teaching, replied the great man.
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