From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 10:29:38 EDT
Philippe,
> Private Use Areas are by definition not interoperable and clearly
> not designed to be used on the web.
> Their use in a page to display text clearly does not qualify, as
> it requires proprietary fonts to display them.
People use special fonts all the time. They are more efficient to obtain a
special look and feel. In fact some UTF-8 pages my want to use special
fonts when they display characters that a user is not likely to have fonts
installed. For example a travel site may want to display the native names
of sights. It may use a script that the user does not have a font to cover.
Even if the user does not read the language they may be able to recognize
the name.
From one of my sites:
<!-- /* $WEFT -- Created by: Carl W. Brown (webmaster@xnetinc.com) on
2/17/2002 -- */
@font-face {
font-family: Papyrus;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url(PAPYRUS3.eot);
}
-->
I think that if you have a Klingon web site that uses UTF-8 and the PUA with
your own font is very Unicode savvy.
Carl
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