From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 16:26:54 CST
Philippe Verdy wrote:
>Due to that, there's a big risk that PUAs start being permanently assigned
>as part of a OS core charset, and that data created on distinct systems
>become mutually incompatible as they are using colliding subsets of PUAs
>(this is already the case in core fonts and script processors used in
>MS Windows, and a few private characters/logographs used by Apple in
>MacOS).
>
>
Yes. When I've made websites using the PUA section for Klingon, even
though my Unicode font contains the right glyphs there, it's unreadable
because some of those codepoints overlap some Adobe or Apple characters,
and my browser in its wisdom decides that Adobe wins. So some of the
characters show right, and some show (r) signs and suchlike.
(We're now *trying* to do more data interchange in Klingon characters,
the lack of which is what held Klingon back from encoding in the first
place... but we *can't* because we're not encoded! What a catch-22!)
~mark
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